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Posted on August 4 at 12:24 p.m.

It is a mistake to characterize people who eat fish as vegetarians and it really makes it hard for those of us who are vegetarians to order food. Traditionally, the line for vegetarianism is drawn at whether an animal was killed for your food. So something like milk or honey comes from an animal, but the animal doesn't die providing it. Vegans eat no animal products whatsoever. Eating fish makes you a pescetarian. Crawfish Salad is not and never will be vegetarian. Red beans and rice is often cooked with pork fat and is almost never vegetarian.

Pescetarianism is certainly a healthy diet choice and is often a stepping stone to becoming vegetarian. I commend the author for taking the healthy diet plunge. However, since moving to Baton Rouge I've been presented on multiple occassions with "vegetarian" food that contained bacon or fish. The term "vegetarian" as used in this article adds to the confusion instead of clearing it up.

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