When Alligator Counts as Fish & Why I'm a Pescatarian
In 2010, a Catholic in Louisiana asked his archbishop a very specific question. During Lent, Catholics skip meat on Fridays. So: was it okay to eat alligator? The archbishop’s answer: yes. As far as the Church was concerned, alligator counted as seafood. He wasn’t the first religious authority to get a question like that. Over the centuries, priests, bishops, and theologians have been asked to rule on beavers, muskrats, capybaras, and a goose that medieval Europeans believed grew on driftwood. ...