Fish: Meat or Not?

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I remember reading a Ben Franklin quote before. He was a pescatarian, which I believe is a vegetarian that eats fish. When questioned why he would avoid only eating certain animals, his logic was essentially that fish eat other fish, and were therefore undeserving of the same moral protection as poultry and mammals.

I probably butchered the story, but it was something along those lines :P

Anyways, scientifically I treat it as meat, but often I'll seperate them when the question comes up. Often I'll say "meat" as shorthand for red meat or white meat, while fish is fish. I'm Catholic, so that probably plays into why I use shorthands like that, but I can't say I've ever run into confusion over it either.