Vegetarians who eat fish (pescetarians) - how do you justify this?

A better question is how can vegetarians justify eating dairy & eggs?
Vegetarianism isn't exactly a coherent decision, so vegetarians who criticise pescetarianism really irritate me: not eating meat but condoning the suffering of animals just so they can eat chocolate is just as hypocritical.

Since my being on this site, I must say that I find that the stupidest thing I have read

Explain?

Exactly. Chickens kept for eggs have far far worse living conditions than chicken kept for meat.

you imagining a line to fit your own agenda

Why the **** does anyone have to justify it?

And I'm a "full" strict vegetarian...

What is my agenda?

the agenda that says it's not ok to eat animals but it's ok to eat fish

The egg was to become a chicken eventually unless the place was nuked or a snake had em.

You are aware eggs have to be fertile to "become a chicken"?

A chicken kept in a battery farm has no interactions with a cockerel.. how can the egg be fertile?

Ah got me there then again there are GM- tomato which have genes from another sources What you say on that?

This;

"Today in the EU, all tomatoes found on the market, whether they're fresh or canned, are not genetically modified. Even the tomato that stayed red and firm after three weeks in the fridge isn't a GMO."

(http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/fruit_vegetables/15.genetically_modified_tomatoes.html)

I'm not trying to question your right to abstain from eating meat, more that I wonder what causes people to feel this way in the first place. For the most part it's not wanting an animal to be killed or that they've been raised that way, but some people argue differently

And I find it hard to see how you can champion the life of animals such as cows, chickens, turkeys and sheep not to become food, yet be happy to eat a fish. A fish after all has the same feelings and nervous system.

Surely it's, by definition, an all or nothing stance?
As in - you're either against eating animals or you're not

i always wonder why people think its strange that some vegetarians eat fish, and yet no-one mentions vegetarians that wear leather?

and its not all or nothing. i just chose to not eat most animals but to eat fish. surely if a meat eater ate everything but (for example) not beef, surely they should eat it too? surely if you eat one animal, you should eat them all since they arent any different?

I don't get vegetarianism - full stop.

So, the animal doesn't get eaten by you.

It gets eaten by someone else.

Also, where's the line between animals being sentient beings and becoming a fruitarian - where fruit and vegetables are living things, so pulling them up is "murdering" them.

If people object to the conditions the animals live in - there are organisations such as P.E.T.A who campaign for animal rights etc. If an animal isn't mistreated before it's death, I don't see what's so "wrong" about carnivorism.

Plus, I agree, you cannot be a pescetarian and still maintain your argument that eating an animal is morally wrong, because they're sentient beings. A fish has just as much right to be alive as a cow. We're not talking about eating intelligent animals such as dolphins either; cows, chickens and fish are all fairly low on the IQ scale. Pigs, however, are apparently moderately intelligent.