Would vegetarians eat insects? Do insects count as meat? I know some vegetarians eat fish so i was curious to whether or not they would eat insects too?
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Of course they do and everybody knows that. In fact, I usually call on acquaintances, neighbors and friends who are vegetarians to eat the roaches, bees, mosquitos, etc. around my house
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Probably not because many vegetarians believe in animal rights.
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no, that wouldn't make any sense. what does it mean to be a vegetarian? Being a vegetarian is being a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc. the second definition is a herbivore. insects to me are live creatures, so vegetarians can't eat them because they protest against eating alive or formely alive creatures. a vegetarian that eats fish isn't technically a vegetarian. seeing as it is eating a creature's flesh.
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No a proper vegitarian would not. Insects have muscles so they have meat since muscles are meat so they can not eat insects nor can they eat fish...
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No vegetarians eat fish. They are mis-naming themselves. A fish eater is called a pescetarian. Vegetarians would not eat things such as chocolate covered grasshoppers. We do not intentionally eat insects, but it is almost impossible this day in age to not eat any at all (processed foods). The last time I read a report on it, the average person consumes 2.5 pounds of bugs per year.
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They won't admit it, but vegetarians eat several pounds of bugs per year, usually unintentionally. Yes they should be counted as meat. http://www.thatsfit.com/2008/05/22/guess-how-many-pounds-of-bugs-you-eat-each-year/
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If a person eats aquatic animals, that person is not a vegetarian. Insects do count as meat, but the arguments against eating insects are not nearly as strong as the ones in support of not depending on vertebrates as a food source.
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