Another Hindu here. Of course fish is meat. They just made some arbitrary designations around it.
They’re made of meat?
Personally, I think fish is meat, both from a culinary and biological perspective. I’m from a Catholic family, but I was not raised Catholic. So maybe that affects my point of view.
But for those talking about how seafood is separated from other meat on restaurant menus, I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. First of all, separation doesn’t mean that something isn’t meat, just that it is an organizing principle to help people navigate the menu better. Nobody is suggesting fish isn’t a different kind of meat than beef.
Furthermore, there are a lot more distinctions on the average menu than between “fish” and “meat”. For one thing, I’ve never seen a “meat” section on a menu. If there are sections, there are usually ones for “poultry”, “pork”, “beef” and “seafood” as well as “vegetarian”. Are you saying pork and chicken aren’t meat? That “vegetarian” doesn’t essentially mean “without meat”, and that almost everything not on the vegetarian menu (including fish) has meat?
Congratulations.
I’m an ovo-lacto-pesco-carno vegetarian.
Well, maybe it varies by location and cuisine, but I’ve seen it many times. Here’s one example from a local restaurant.
Much like others have said:
As far as I’m concerned, fish is meat in the sense that both represent flesh of an animal. If a person says they are vegetarian but still eat fish, they get a raised eyebrow from me.
However, I recognize that the historical use of the term “meat” has often included the assumption “from a mammal” and therefore poultry and fish (and shellfish) could be put in either separate categories altogether or at least require a qualification about the type of animal in question.
It’s a lot like tomatoes, honestly. Clearly a fruit from a botanical classification, but they are used like a vegetable and often classified that way from a legal perspective.
Nope. Well, not during Lent. What you eat on a Friday in July is your own business.
A few years back, Good Friday fell on St. Patrick’s Day and a number of people were awaiting some dispensation that eating corned beef that day would be okay but the Holy Powers That Be ultimately said “Nope, still not cool to eat meat”.
Meat is the flesh of a mammal. Fish and chicken are not mammal and are therefore not meat.
If you are talking about not eating food from an animal, then fish is definitely meat. Someone who calls herself a vegetarian but eats fish or seafood is deluding herself.
But it’s not “red” meat from a mammal. Some people who avoid eating mammals because they think their health benefits, eat fish and chicken. They shorten “red meat” to “meat”, the same way people have shortened “whole wheat” to “wheat”. The latter is so common, that I knew someone who told me white bread wasn’t wheat. I asked her where the flour came from, the light bulb came on, and she was quite embarrassed.
So yes, fish is meat, sourced from an animal. But not red, i.e. mammal, meat.
Yay! Pork is not meat! And it’s healthy! 
I always though that in New Mexico, the role of “fish during lent” should be taken by hamburger. After all, the point is to eat what is cheap and plentiful, “humble” food, and it seems more humble to be eating cow than shipping fish to the middle of the desert.
Vegans don’t eat fish because it is meat. Hard-core vegans don’t eat honey either, not because it is meat, but because it is an animal product. I am sure they would consider eating the bees themselves as eating meat, because, yanno, animal flesh is meat.
Are fish conscious and/or self-aware? Or are they just meat robots? See what I mean?
Is the Earth 6000 years old? No, it is far older. Did Joshua cause the Sun to stop in its track across the sky for 24 hours? No, the Sun doesn’t even revolve around the Earth. I’m here all year if you need help sorting anything else out.
Well, there was that advertising campaign about “the new white meat”…
Same here.
That stuff that you can chew from the bones of a fish, that’s meat. Fish meat.
If it was capable of getting away when people decided to make it food, it’s probably meat.
Fish is meat.
Meat is murder.
Therefore fish is murder.
Define “animal” . Yes, Linnaeus defined Animal back in the 1700’s but in the OT and many other ancient writings “animal” does not include “fish”. So, for 4000 years, “fish” were not animals, but for 300 years they were- scientifically speaking.