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Originally Posted by akstrohm  It doesn't make any sense to criticize pescatarians any more than it makes sense to criticize vegetarians for not being vegans. . . .It's a balance between what is practical and what people feel is most ethical. |
Absolutely, akstrohm. I'm an omnivore with no intention of ever being anything else but I can certainly see there being principled reasons for reducing or eliminating consumption of whole classes of proteins from one's diet if one chooses to make that commitment. It sounds as if certain people are assuming that discomfort with consumption of animals is the only reason one would become a vegan or vegetarian, and it just isn't so. I can see people being willing to eat fish but not beef, for instance, because fishing doesn't cause the massive deforestation that cattle ranching can, and some species of fish are nearly exclusively wild-caught, having lived their whole lives in a natural environment, rather than in a cage, which may matter to some people also.