But what do humanitarians eat?

[desh]

As of sometime this evening, I hit one month without eating any meat. (Well, depends on how you define meat, I guess. I've had fish.) The last meat I had was some chicken at rue101's wedding on the afternoon of August 5th.

I'm not becoming a vegetarian. Most of this was "accidental", in that I wasn't aiming for a one-month goal until recently, when I had to do a little meat-avoiding in situations when one of my parents was offering to cook for me. I just don't have meat that much. And then I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do a month, and do it easily. I guess I'm a true flexitarian now, or something. It's certainly not going to last another month, especially not with Rosh Hashanah meals about a week away.

I don't think I could ever become a vegetarian, mainly because I can't imagine Passover or Thanksgiving without meat. And it's probably bad for you to only have meat once or twice a year, since your body gets used to not having those particular proteins or something (or is that just a nasty rumor?). So the minimum I could see myself having meat is probably a half-dozen times a year or something. But I have no real desire to cut down my current rate: every couple of weeks or month or so, usually on holidays or weekends.

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Comments

[desh]

In my circles, fish-as-non-meat makes sense because of keeping kosher. There's nothing wrong with mixing fish with dairy, but there is with mixing other meat with dairy; so it's easy to just think of fish as not meat. But outside the context of keeping kosher, yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

[spin0za1.livejournal.com]

eh, it depends by what criteria you define what makes something meat. It may seem obvious to some that flesh of any animal is necessarily meat, but one might consider only certain classes of animal flesh to be, davka, meat. I mean, the flesh of a fruit is also sometimes referred to meat. Same as that of a nut. I can also understand someone classifying only land animals as meat, especially since fish flesh has a very different texture from mammal meat or poultry... I have also known people to not classify poultry as meat. You know, different world views, semantics, etc. Which we as Jews should have no problem understanding. ;)