RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to vegan@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoWhat is the worst "Vegan Option" you've ever been offered?message-squaremessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the worst "Vegan Option" you've ever been offered?RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to vegan@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squaremacerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 months agoI think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
minus-squareEris235 [undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoA lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two. but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months ago they think “animals” means meat I’m confused, fish are animals?
minus-squaremacerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agowhen they think “animals”, they think of the culinary category of meat. Not animal as in “animal, mineral, or vegetable”. It’s an overloaded word.
I think it has to do with traditional (religious? catholics) categorization of flesh into meat, poultry, and fish. they think “animals” means “meat”
A lot of languages also don’t consider ‘meat’ to include ‘fish meat’, having entirely separate words for the two.
but yeah, I think in the US, its mostly catholicism brainworms
I’m confused, fish are animals?
when they think “animals”, they think of the culinary category of meat. Not animal as in “animal, mineral, or vegetable”. It’s an overloaded word.