Please don't inject yourself into conversations when you do not fully grasp the context.

> In the stores fish and meat are different aisles.

This does not change the fact that fish is still, in fact, meat.

> And the discussion is about carbon footprint, not veganism.

Broadly, but not in this context.

From the comment upstream:

> This isn't universally true - some meat is grown by grazing "free" plant calories. But it is true for grain fed cattle -- for most US industrial meat production.

It is quite obvious meat is used here in everyday colloquial sense. Especially when elsewhere in the greater thread people contrast meat with poultry.

I was responding to someone who was talking about them being vegan. The conversation was about vegan options, which fish isn't one of them. Please just stop, you didn't even have a real point to make in the first place.

In my store, the fish is right next to the butcher, in the same aisle...

Fishing is the primary source of plastic in the ocean, it has its environmental issues as well. That is before we talk about offshore fish farms, where the fish live in a cage their whole life, get fed subpar inputs, and generally resembles chicken farms. Not to mention that we have over fished the natural ocean to the point that the salmon food chain is in danger of collapse...

Sure mate, my whole store has eukaryotes all mixed up.