But can you eat fish? Vegetarians can also get a shrimp cocktail as an alternative from the meat-eating host. Christians eat fish on Fridays. That counts as fasting. Fish is not meat – despite its muscles and nerves. An absurd contradiction for some, a fair compromise for others: around three percent of Germans eat a pescetarian diet, like one opinion poll from 2019 shows. Although they do not eat meat, they eat fish and seafood. Can this distinction be justified? Or, strictly speaking, would one have to do without everything that breathes, whether through the lungs or gills?
Pescetarian diet: meat no, fish yes – is that justifiable? – Knowledge
