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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

answer: China is trying to empty the oceans and it doesn't give a fuck

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's not just China. Pretty much every country is over fishing.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FTA:

"Nutritionally, it is far more efficient than meat"

TIL Fish is not meat...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whoever said that must be Catholic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

At one time both capybaras and puffins were classified as fish by the church to allow their consumption on all days. They were just too convenient to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a very convoluted way to make people vegetarians

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only during Lent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Beavers as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thought of eating a capy just feels so wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it not common in most places to differentiate land animals (meat) from sea animals (fish)? I get your point that there's no real distinction to make philosophically, but it's customary and most people understand it?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No? The only times I've seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons. Generally you'd categorize the meat by the type of animal, such as beef, pork, chicken/poultry, or the broad categories like fish or shellfish.

Maybe it just depends on if you live someplace that's very religious or not?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only times I've seen fish treated as somehow not meat is for religious reasons

I think going to the restaurant located inside my local church was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, you say that, but catholic churches are very much known for their fish fry fridays in my area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is their halibut good enough for Jehovah?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sister Celestine, I told you to we needed to order more HABITS, now what are we gonna do with all this fish?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've definitely seen and heard the phrase "meat or fish" used where I live. I doubt it's just a Finnish thing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dunno, I just assumed that anything that bleeds when you kill it is meat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of people make the distinction that red meat, mammals, are more intelligent, more aware of pain, more develop neurologically, than fish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

WTF I want to kill a crab for scientific purposes now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We bleed horseshoe crabs for the medicinal properties of their blood.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do you, my friend. My family and I prefer to spend our free time reading a good book or baking cookies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I eat all the meat. It's delicious. I just wanted to share what it's called when you eat fish but no other meat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even to his day, I still meet "vegetarians" who eat fish. Usually boomer age.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once met a vegetarian when i was only 8 and wasn't even sure what that was. She explained that she doesn't eat meat, just fish and chicken. Instead of just asking a real adult, i made shit up in my brain like: fjsh aren't meat and neither are chickens, because their meat is white or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is there not a term for that? What do you call someone who chooses not to eat red meat? (Not for religious or cultural reasons)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Healthy, haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My FIL is going through some medical issues and considered going mostly vegetarian to try and reverse the (irreversible) organ damage he was told he had. His plan was just fish, eggs and poultry, with red meat just once or twice a week.

I’m not often speechless.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

China must be lying about its aquaculture output, otherwise why are they fishing the oceans clean?

Time to start sinking fishing vessels.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article has impeccable graphics and UX design. Its almost a documentary that I can scroll through.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article has impeccable [...] UX design.

It's stupidly frustrating. I want to read the fucking article... Not scroll for 2 hours to get to the next paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is how I feel about these sort of multimedia articles too. Give me a "text only" button, at least

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I really disliked how they showed heavily pivoted globe instead of a map to show china’s activities. They went for maximum style points and didn’t care about my ability to read and interpret the data.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

cut to a very fat cat

I-I d-don't know but I'm looking far and wide for whoever did this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scooter, because they're asking for its price for years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The chase is better than the catch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

An entire article asking “why are there no fish?” And never mentions climate change, polluted waters, and human overpopulation.

What a joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Same. Every other day of the week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not me. I hate fish. I’m also bad at math.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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