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  2. Human uses of fish - Wikipedia

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    The Fishmonger's Shop, Bartolomeo Passerotti, 1580s Fish on a trawler's deck. People interact with fish in multiple ways, whether practically, in folklore and religion, or in art. They have economic importance in the fishing industry and fish farming; these industries provide some people with an income, and the general population with fish as food.

  3. An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty

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    [1] [2] Ritson stated that for thirty years he had never tasted fish, flesh or fowl but he did eat eggs because it deprives no animal of life. [1] He campaigned for the welfare of animals and the ethical necessity of a vegetarian diet. [3] Ritson spent years collecting information for the book. [4]

  4. Fish as food - Wikipedia

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    Common species of fish and shellfish used for food [4]; Mild flavour Moderate flavour Full flavour Delicate texture Basa, flounder, hake, scup, smelt, rainbow trout, hardshell clam, blue crab, peekytoe crab, spanner crab, cuttlefish, eastern oyster, Pacific oyster

  5. Matsya Nyaya - Wikipedia

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    According to Chanakya, in absence of government or rule of law, the human society will degenerate into a state of anarchy in which the strong will destroy or exploit the weak much like how bigger fish eat smaller fish. So according to this philosophy, the theory of government was based on a belief in the innate depravity of man.

  6. Seafood - Wikipedia

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    Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).

  7. List of types of seafood - Wikipedia

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    Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans. It prominently includes shellfish, and roe. Shellfish include various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. In most parts of the world, fish are generally not considered seafood even if they are from the sea.

  8. On Abstinence from Eating Animals - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Porphyry from the Tree of Jesse at the Sucevița Monastery, 1535. On Abstinence from Eating Animals [a] (Koinē Greek: Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων, romanized: Peri apochēs empsychōn, Latin: De abstinentia ab esu animalium) is a 3rd-century treatise by Porphyry on the ethics of vegetarianism.

  9. Food and drink prohibitions - Wikipedia

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    Novel meats, i.e. animal-derived food products not familiar to an individual or to a culture, generally provoke a disgust reaction, which may be expressed as a cultural taboo. [7] For example, although dog meat is eaten, in certain circumstances, in Korea, Vietnam, and China, it is considered inappropriate as a food in virtually all Western ...