If you're a vegetarian for religious reasons, is it okay to eat fish for its nutritional benefits?
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Vegetarian has taken so many meanings that it has lost its meaning. I met a woman at work who said she was a vegetarian. After speaking with her for about five minutes I realized that she just didn't eat pork. In my humble, vegetarian = no animal products. No lacto, no ovo, pesco, whatever. There's no difference, it's all or nothing. So no, it is not. Omega-3 and other long-chain fatty acids can be gotten from flaxseed, hempseed and many other herbal sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_omega-3_fatty_acids Cyanocobalamin/B12 is present in soil that is in fresh vegetables and the amount needed to prevent demyelination and dementia is in the microgram range per day [A peck of dirt...] (If you don't think you can pick up 1-2 µg (USRDA) of B12 from fresh ground/root vegetables, I think you are mistaken.)
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If you think religious reasons = moral reasons and if that reason follows the "I will take no life to sustain mine." philosophy, then eating fish would violate your ethics.
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I would say it would break break the rule in your religion, but if it would help your health, then I think you should definitely go with eating fish. For me, it helped me so much. After I started eating fish again, I just felt better. A vegetarian diet takes a lot of grooming.
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Yes.
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You have to ask your priest, guru, swami, medicine man, witch doctor or whatever. Religious rules are not susceptible to logical analysis, especially by those who don't even know what religion you are talking about. Do fish have souls - who decides, and how do they know?
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Eat ground flax seed for omega-3 fatty acids instead. You won't have to worry about the fish coming from a polluted source either.
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