Pescetarians (also known as pescatarians) are people who adhere to a pescetarian diet that incorporates seafood as the only source of meat in an otherwise vegetarian diet. The following people are recognized as notable pescetarians, either currently or historically.
Name | Occupation | Country | Sources |
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John Abraham | Actor | India | [1] |
Eric Adams | Politician | United States | [2] [3] [4] |
Jamal Adams | American football player | United States | [5] |
Scott Adams | Cartoonist | United States | [6] |
Manohar Aich | Bodybuilder | India | [7] |
Mira Aroyo | Musician | Bulgaria | [8] |
Rosanna Arquette | Actress | United States | [9] |
Margaret Atwood | Novelist | Canada | [10] |
Aurora | Singer | Norway | [11] |
Beauden Barrett | Professional rugby player | New Zealand | [12] |
Clarence Bass | Fitness expert | United States | [13] |
Dave Bautista | Actor | United States | [14] [15] |
Victoria Beckham | Singer | United Kingdom | [16] |
Yella Beezy | Rapper | United States | [17] |
Dirk Benedict | Actor | United States | [18] |
Mary Berg | Celebrity chef | Canada | [19] |
Dāvis Bertāns | Professional basketball player | Latvia | [20] |
Beyoncé | Singer | United States | [21] |
Rowan Blanchard | Actress | United States | [22] |
Livingstone Bramble | Boxer | United States Virgin Islands | [23] |
Phoebe Bridgers | Musician | United States | [24] |
Eleanor Bron | Actress | United Kingdom | [25] |
Ellen Burstyn | Actress | United States | [26] |
Mark Butler | Politician | Australia | [27] |
Kari Byron | Television host | United States | [28] |
Tracy Chapman | Musician | United States | [29] |
Parvesh Cheena | Actor | United States | [30] [31] |
Deepak Chopra | Author | United States | [32] |
Tzuyu Chou | Singer | Taiwan and South Korea | [33] [34] |
Lily Cole | Model | United Kingdom | [35] [36] |
Common | Musician | United States | [37] |
Misty Copeland | Professional ballet dancer | United States | [38] |
Billy Corgan | Musician | United States | [39] [40] |
Abbie Cornish | Actress, musician | Australia | [41] |
Fearne Cotton | Television presenter | United Kingdom | [42] [43] |
Laverne Cox | Actress | United States | [44] |
Kaley Cuoco | Actress | United States | [45] |
Jamie Lee Curtis | Actress | United States | [46] |
Miley Cyrus | Musician | United States | [47] [48] |
Chuck D | Musician | United States | [29] [49] |
Ted Danson | Actor | United States | [50] |
Alan Davies | Actor | United Kingdom | [51] [52] |
Ellen DeGeneres | Television host | United States | [53] |
Jermain Defoe | Professional footballer | United Kingdom | [54] [55] [56] |
Willem Dafoe | Actor | United States | [57] |
Lizzie Deignan | Professional cyclist | United Kingdom | [58] |
Zooey Deschanel | Actress | United States | [59] |
Varun Dhawan | Actor | India | [60] |
Alesha Dixon | Singer | United Kingdom | [61] |
Robert Downey Jr. | Actor | United States | [62] |
David Duchovny | Actor | United States | [63] [64] |
Susie Essman | Comedian and actress | United States | [65] |
Kevin Eubanks | Musician | United States | [66] |
Ali Ewoldt | Actress | United States | [67] |
Justin Fields | American football quarterback | United States | [68] |
Waka Flocka Flame | Musician | United States | [48] |
Harrison Ford | Actor | United States | [69] [70] |
Laura Jane Fraser | Journalist | United States | [71] |
Robert Fripp | Musician | United Kingdom | [72] |
Peter Gabriel | Musician | United Kingdom | [73] |
R'Bonney Gabriel | Model | United States | [74] |
Ben Gibbard | Singer-songwriter | United States | [75] |
Peter Gideon | Farmer | United States | [76] |
Amber Gill | Television personality | United Kingdom | [77] |
Kimiko Glenn | Actress | United States | [78] [79] |
Paul Greenberg | Author | United States | [80] [81] [82] |
Yael Grobglas | Actress | Israel | [83] |
Anne Hathaway | Actress | United States | [84] |
Tippi Hedren | Actress | United States | [85] [86] |
Amanda Holden | Actress, television personality | United Kingdom | [87] |
Calum Hood | Bassist of 5 Seconds Of Summer | Australia | [88] |
Anthony Hopkins | Actor | Wales | [89] |
Vanessa Hudgens | Actress | United States | [90] [91] |
Song Il-kook | Actor | South Korea | [92] |
Samantha Katie James | Actress | Malaysia | [93] |
Steve Jobs | Business magnate, industrial designer | United States | [94] [95] |
Daniel Johns | Musician | Australia | [96] |
Julie Kavner | Actress | United States | [97] |
Emma Kenney | Actress | United States | [98] |
Mark Kermode | Film critic | United Kingdom | [99] |
Daniel Kessler | Guitarist | United Kingdom | [100] |
Claudia Kim | Model and actress | South Korea | [101] [102] |
Barbara J. King | Anthropologist | United States | [103] [104] [105] |
Karlie Kloss | Fashion model and television host | United States | [106] |
Kristin Kreuk | Actress | Canada | [107] [108] |
Jack LaLanne | Bodybuilder | United States | [109] |
Nene Leakes | Television personality | United States | [110] |
Donovan Leitch | Musician | Scotland | [111] |
Valter Longo | Scientist, professor and author | Italy and United States | [112] |
Nadine Lustre | Actress | Philippines | [113] |
Melaine Lynskey | Actress | New Zealand | [114] |
Hyori Lee | Musician | South Korea | [101] |
Shaina Magdayao | Actress | Philippines | [115] |
Wendie Malick | Actress | Canada and United States | [116] |
Taryn Manning | Actress | United States | [117] |
Amanda Marcotte | Blogger and journalist | United States | [118] |
Mario | Singer | United States | [119] |
Jan Maxwell | Actress | United States | [120] |
Gillian McKeith | Television presenter | United Kingdom | [121] |
Sir Ian McKellen | Actor | United Kingdom | [122] |
Eva Mendes | Actress | United States | [123] [124] |
Emmanuel Sabbi | Professional soccer player | United States | [125] |
Tamyra Mensah-Stock | Wrestler | United States | [126] |
Yehudi Menuhin | Violinist | United Kingdom and United States | [127] |
Dannii Minogue | Singer-songwriter | Australia | [128] |
Harold Monro | Poet | Belgium | [129] |
Mary Tyler Moore | Actress | United States | [130] |
Chloë Grace Moretz | Actress | United States | [131] |
David H. Murdock | Businessman | United States | [132] [133] |
Ralph Nader | Political activist | United States | [134] |
Martina Navratilova | Professional tennis player | Czechia and United States | [135] |
Francis William Newman | Scholar and philosopher | Great Britain | [136] |
Richard Norton | Martial artist | Australia | [137] |
U Nu | Politician | Myanmar | [138] |
Steve-O | Actor | United States | [139] |
Natasha Oakley | Model | Australia | [140] [141] |
Diether Ocampo | Actor | Philippines | [142] |
Gizele Oliveira | Model | Brazil | [143] [144] |
Jenna Ortega | Actress | United States | [145] |
David Oyelowo | Actor | United Kingdom | [146] |
Amanda Palmer | Musician | United States | [147] |
Fiann Paul | Explorer, athlete and artist | Iceland | [148] |
Anna Pavlova | Ballet dancer | Russia | [149] |
Fiona Phillips | Journalist | United Kingdom | [150] |
Sidney Poitier | Actor | United States | [151] |
Tao Porchon-Lynch | Yoga master | United States | [152] [153] |
CM Punk | Mixed martial artist | United States | [154] |
Chris Pureka | Singer-songwriter | United States | [155] |
Susanna Reid | Television presenter | United Kingdom | [156] |
Alice Roberts | Biological anthropologist | United Kingdom | [157] [158] |
Mary Robinson | Politician | Ireland | [159] |
Carlos P. Romulo | Diplomat | Philippines | [160] |
Rafael Rosell | Actor | Philippines | [161] |
Olesya Rulin | Actress | Russia and United States | [162] |
Shaun Ryder | Singer-songwriter | United Kingdom | [163] [164] |
Sadhguru | Spiritual teacher | India | [165] |
Francisque Sarcey | Journalist | France | [166] [167] |
Andy Serkis | Actor | United Kingdom | [168] [169] |
Shanina Shaik | Model | Australia | [170] [171] |
Claressa Shields | Professional boxer | United States | [172] |
Geno Smith | American football quarterback | United States | [173] |
Queen Sofía of Spain | Queen of Spain | Spain | [174] |
Vladimir Solovyov | Philosopher | Russia | [175] |
Rick Springfield | Musician | Australia | [176] |
Keir Starmer | Politician | United Kingdom | [177] |
Wayne Static | Musician | United States | [178] |
Howard Stern | Television personality | United States | [179] [180] |
Ben Stiller | Actor | United States | [181] [182] |
Spencer Strider | Professional baseball pitcher | United States | [183] |
Harry Styles | Musician | United Kingdom | [184] [185] |
T.I. | Rapper | United States | [186] |
Jason Vale | Author | United Kingdom | [187] |
Kirsten Vangsness | Actress | United States | [188] |
Ellsworth Wareham | Surgeon | United States | [189] |
Dennis Weaver | Actor | United States | [190] |
Andrew Weil | Celebrity doctor | United States | [191] |
Jo Whiley | Television presenter | United Kingdom | [192] |
Elsie de Wolfe | Actress | United States | [193] |
David Zabriskie | Road bicycle racer | United States | [194] [195] |
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products and the consumption of animal source foods, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A person who practices veganism is known as a vegan.
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat. It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. A person who practices vegetarianism is known as a vegetarian.
A flexitarian diet, also called a semi-vegetarian or fauxtarian diet, is one that is centered on plant foods with limited or occasional inclusion of meat. For example, a flexitarian might eat meat only some days each week. Flexitarian is a portmanteau of the words flexible and vegetarian, signifying its followers' less strict diet pattern when compared to vegetarian pattern diets.
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A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods. It encompasses a wide range of dietary patterns that contain low amounts of animal products and high amounts of fiber-rich plant products such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices. Plant-based diets may also be vegan or vegetarian but do not have to be, as they are defined in terms of high frequency of plants and low frequency of animal food consumption.
Christian vegetarianism is the practice of keeping to a vegetarian lifestyle for reasons connected to or derived from the Christian faith. The three primary reasons are spiritual, nutritional, and ethical. The ethical reasons may include a concern for God's creation, a concern for animal rights and welfare, or both. Likewise, Christian veganism is not using any animal products for reasons connected to or derived from the Christian faith. Pescatarianism was widespread in the early Church, among both the clergy and laity. Among the early Judeo-Christian Gnostics the Ebionites held that John the Baptist, James the Just and Jesus were vegetarians.
The practice of vegetarianism is strongly linked with a number of religious traditions worldwide. These include religions that originated in India, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. With close to 85% of India's billion-plus population practicing these religions, India remains the country with the highest number of vegetarians in the world.
Environmental vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism that is motivated by the desire to create a sustainable diet, which avoids the negative environmental impact of meat production. Livestock as a whole is estimated to be responsible for around 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As a result, significant reduction in meat consumption has been advocated by, among others, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their 2019 special report and as part of the 2017 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.
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Are you vegan? Well, I'm a pescatarian. [...] I love sushi.
I don't eat meat – I do eat seafood sometimes, but usually because there isn't a good vegetarian option.
I eat fish, but no meat, so there's no big Sunday roast. Occasionally I'll cook salmon steaks with olive oil and garlic, which is lush.
I'm a vegetarian, who eats fish (29:50)