• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    By all means people should eat what they want to eat, however vegan is not the right word.

    People asking me if I eat fish always scares me because what if someone serving me food just assumes vegetarians eat fish and doesn’t think to ask.

    I’m not a fan of people using those terms incorrectly because of that kind of misunderstanding

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      2 years ago

      In France it’s quite common to find all kinds of fish in the vegetarian section of the menu. I didn’t see it classified as vegan yet though.

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          2 years ago

          Yeah. As much as I dislike dogmatism, and vegans eating bivalves bothers me very little, I think there is an actual slippery slope issue here. If you accept that maybe some animals are OK to consume, how and where do you then set an arbitrary line?

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            2 years ago

            I would probably dislike someone if they told me they were vegan and then tried to justify eating X animal because y

            Don’t mind if they just say they try to avoid eating meat, that’s still commendable, but the moment they try to assign the label to themselves it really irks me

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          2 years ago

          I guess that’s also the reason then, why mussels, fish etc. are considered sea fruit in many languages: Frutti di Mare, Meeresfrüchte, fruit de mer […]