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Mood: strange
I just realized that we are in the season of lent… well actually the catholics are in that season… but how many are following it? And now what is lent all about?
That’s right… you guessed it… fasting. Or in laymen’s terms… not eating… meat to be precise… but only on Fridays.
Ok, sounds like a half ass effort but that’s not what my gripe is about. It’s about the meat.
Just a quick question: Who decided that fish would not be considered meat? I mean come on.
Maybe the question is: What is meat?
Let us see:
Maybe since it is not a domesticated animal. But deer is meat. So is squirrel. So that can't be right. It also can't just be the fact that it swims. Seals swim but I'm sure they have meat. Poultry is also meat so it can't just be limited to mammals.
Ok I have 2 opposing definitions.
Webster’s collegiate dictionary defines meat as such.
1a: FOOD;esp:solid food as distinguished from drink b: the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering (as a husk or shell) 2: animal tissue considered esp. as food: a: FLESH 2b: also: flesh of a mammal as opposed to fowl or fish b: FLESH la; specif: flesh of domesticated animals
and there is more but it doesn’t pertain to the question at hand
plus… there is a contradiction already in this one since chickens are foul, and they are domesticated.
Dictionary.com defines meat as:
n 1: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food 2: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: kernel] 3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
So… some people do consider the muscles of teleosts to be meat, but obviously the catholic church does not. Maybe they follow the first definition, but they do consider chicken meat as well.
I don’t know. Maybe they just needed an out. Maybe they needed some protein in their diet. Plus I think originally, it used to be no meat for the entire 40 days so that might make some sense. Or, maybe they just like making strange rules. Whatever.
I understand meat, as in from animals, as in the kingdom animalia, to be the muscle of an animal. That means that it is the part of the animal that causes movement to occur. Without it they would just be plants that cannot photosynthesize. Therefore since chickens have muscle, horses have muscle, cows have muscle, lobsters have muscle, bunnies have muscle, and fish have muscle, basically all vertebrates have muscle, then their flesh (muscle) is considered meat to me. I mean… if cows have meat, then what is a piece of fish flesh called? I think it is just called fish. Then why don’t we call a steak cow, or bovine? Whatever. Strange thing to ramble on about, I know.
Hope I made some sense. Have a good night everyone and don’t let the bed bugs eat your meat!!! Carpe diem!!
Quote of the day: “If a man can kill someone and be forgiven, I'm sure god can forgive a little whoopee.”
Bowling For Fish
