Is fish a meat? Why can you eat it during lent?

My cousin and I have this on going debate and i wanted to see what other people think. My cousin is Catholic and wont eat meat on Fridays durring lent but she will eat fish. When I asked her why, she told me because fish isnt meat. It doesnt make sense to me since fish is an animal, it should be considered meat. What do you think?

Is fish a meat? Why can you eat it during lent?car loan

In the first century, Jews fasted on Mondays and Thursdays. The original Christians were all Jewish and were used to the fasting as a spiritual discipline. They moved the fast days to Wednesdays and Fridays, because Judas engineered Jesus%26#039; arrest on a Wednesday and Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Most often that fast took the form of avoiding meat in the diet. In those days, meat was a luxury food. You either had to buy it in a market or you had to own enough land to keep cattle. On the other hand, anyone could grow vegetables or forage for them, and anyone could catch a fish in a lake or a stream. You could buy better fish and vegetables, but the point is that you could eat without money if you were poor. So meat was rich people%26#039;s food and fish was poor people%26#039;s food. That is why the most common form of fasting was to omit meat and eat fish.

Is fish a meat? Why can you eat it during lent? loan

It%26#039;s just another meaningless tradition......

I%26#039;m born again and saved by the blood of Christ.....

Eat away, my friend. We are not saved by what goes into our bodies......we are saved by grace|||Yeah my cousin is a vegitarian and I told her a fish is still an animal, and it%26#039;s still meat. For some reason they think the cute cows and fluffy chicks are more important than the ugly fish I guess.|||Fish is not an animal.

Fish is not meat.

Beef is meat.

Your cousin is right.|||Eat anything you want. The %26quot;don%26#039;t eat meat on Friday%26quot; nonsense is a part of the catholic cult. Catholics are not saved Christians. Catholicism is a Babylonian pagan cult that takes a few out of context Christian concepts to deceive.|||this catholic theology is not BIBLICAL.it is a man made tradition . the truth is a vegetarian diet was GOD%26#039;S original plan.. ancd ther are some animals that are forbidden. check it out in Deuteronmy, ans Numbers .. these are the diet principles JESUS used.and that is good enough for me.|||Fish is technically meat but it%26#039;s also very different than all land dwelling flesh so... it%26#039;s just a different category of meat.|||lmao@ Gay Crocoduck hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa|||The same folks that tell ya it is ok for a priest to commit pedophilia, but not ok for consent adults to be homosexuals, have also told you fish is a plant.

What is the problem with that?