{"id":1169,"date":"2009-04-26T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:10:27","slug":"no-more-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/no-more-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Fishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’ve been thinking pretty hard in the last few days about giving up fish, about whether I should become a “real” vegetarian.\u00a0 After all, the blog is called No <\/em>Meat Athlete.\u00a0 I suppose I could justify my fish-eating by saying that “no meat” is an ideal that I’m hoping to achieve one day, but it’s not about the blog title.\u00a0 It’s about the title I give to myself.<\/p>\n

I know that titles don’t matter much.\u00a0 If I were to eat fish only one time per year, there are plenty of people who would argue that I still wouldn’t be a vegetarian.\u00a0 But who cares what it’s called, right?\u00a0 If I know in my head that I am vegetarian 99.5 percent of the time, then the title doesn’t matter at all.<\/p>\n

Only it does matter.\u00a0 It matters because I’m honest, and something would feel very wrong about telling others that I’m a vegetarian when in fact I still consume some animals (let’s not forget that fish, dumb as they seem, are <\/em>animals).\u00a0 I could just say “almost-vegetarian,” or “pescetarian.”\u00a0 But I don’t like doing anything “almost,” and most people think pescetarianism is a religion.<\/p>\n

But still, all that is about names.\u00a0 And there’s more to my dilemma than just names.\u00a0 I want to be someone who doesn’t eat any animals.\u00a0 For now I’m semi-ok with dairy, because you’re not eating a corpse when you drink a cow’s milk (though with all the hormones and whatever else finds its way into most milk, I wouldn’t call it healthy).\u00a0 But actually eating animals is on another level.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I’m not quite ready to be that guy who can’t eat crabs at a crab feast, or the guy who has to make special arrangements when a wedding reception dinner includes a fish option but nothing vegetarian.\u00a0 It’s really not about missing fish; we already eat it less than once per week and it’s not like I count down the days until I get to eat it again.\u00a0 I could do without it at home.\u00a0 But as far as convenience goes (and I really hate<\/em> to use the word “convenience” when I’m talking about eating a once-living being), it would just be so much easier to have fish as an option when I go out to eat with friends or go to someone’s house for dinner.<\/p>\n

Here’s a solution that a friend proposed to me, and I’m kind of happy with it.\u00a0 Stop making fish at home, don’t plan on eating it out, but realize that there will be some situations when I’ll end up eating it, and be ok with that (as a Marylander, can I really be expected to eschew a crab feast?).\u00a0 And call myself a vegetarian.\u00a0 It’s that last part that I’m struggling with.<\/p>\n

Finally, just to keep things in perspective, let me brag a little.\u00a0 Just two months ago I was eating essentially anything, and yesterday at a party I turned down a home-smoked pulled pork sandwich with vinegar-based sauce! <\/em> I once drove seven hours through the night to get this type of sandwich when I was in college (not a lie; my friend and I literally drove there, slept in the parking lot until the place opened, ate a sandwich, and drove home).\u00a0 I may not be a perfect vegetarian yet, but turning down vinegar-based barbecue, dear readers, was a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking pretty hard in the last few days about giving up fish, about whether I should become a “real” vegetarian.\u00a0 After all, the blog is called No Meat Athlete.\u00a0 I suppose I could justify my fish-eating by saying that “no meat” is an ideal that I’m hoping to achieve one day, but it’s 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