• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Vegetables are a social construct too.

    Afaik, botanically, there is no such thing as a “vegetable”. Only fruits. What we perceive as “vegetable” differs between cultures worldwide.

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      3 days ago

      Wait till you find out that some places around the world think fish meat does not count as meat and is vegetarian

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        1 day ago

        I have no problem believing that every society has ludicrous cultural vestiges that can undoubtedly be traced back to a religious practice. For example, some Pope might declare that fish isn’t meat based on an example of linguistic sophistry to protect the fishing industry.

      • unphazed@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Yeah I had a friend from Grenada that told me this one day and I had trouble understanding the reasoning.

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          The American Meat Science Association defines meat as red meat (beef, pork, and lamb), poultry, fish/seafood, and meat from other managed species (AMSA, 2017).

          Fish, by definition, is meat.

          Other simpler definitions around the world sinply say “flesh of an animal”. At that point, you’re arguing that fish isn’t an animal.

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      3 days ago

      The botanical definition is just “edible parts of a plant”. The culinary definition however does differs per culture.