Quote from: ZeroUH on November 10, 2012, 11:37:13 AM
Fish = meat. IT'S NOT A VEGETABLE, FRUIT OR W/E! FISH IS MADE OF MEAT!!! @$#%#^@!!!
And THIS is the best thing ever made...
As a generic culinary and butchery term of art, "meat" refers to the muscular flesh of a mammal. This is the definition most commonly applied by governments in meat product regulation and food labeling, and in religious rites and rituals. Edible birds and fish/seafood are not "meat" under this application but are treated separately from mammals. Likewise, amphibians and reptiles, not to mention the "meat" of edible insects, arachnids, and so on.
Religious rites and rituals regarding food also tend to apply this distinction, classifying the birds of the air and the fish of the sea separately from land-bound mammals. Sea-bound mammals are often treated as fish under religious laws. Following is stated in the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church.