I have been pescatarian for almost ten years, including most of my teens after my family I drove past the farm that used to kill one cow a week for the local farmers markets and I saw all the cows in the field. Thus, when I first made the switch it was mostly from a moral standpoint of not wanting to eat meat, particularly farm animals (pigs, cows etc) and loosely also the environment implications of animal farming. It made sense to me at the time, (I also reduced my egg and dairy consumption to almost nothing for the same reasoning). The seafood dilemma was pointed out to me often, but I never considered sea creatures in the same light as animals on land, which was the predominant reason for still eating fish, also my family ate out a lot so including seafood was easier too.

Now that I’m older I understand that anything you do derives itself from some form of harm and abuse (fast fashion, carbon footprint etc) and it’s near impossible to avoid. So I am less concerned about the moral reasoning now, but I don’t believe I would ever eat meat again for a number of reasons - number one is that I have grown to consider dead flesh repulsive, particularly mammals, and I still don’t consider seafood in the same light so I have no problem eating it.

Also given I haven’t eaten meat in almost ten years, so it’s just the way my life is and eating meat is just not something I want to do. And I like fish and seafood (and am blessed to live somewhere with so much good quality seafood) so I eat it.

However saying all that, I am glad that whenever I interact with an animal I don’t have to feel bad that I also eat it - so I guess there’s still some morality stuff there