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It's all a matter of context. In the modern context, meat is understood to be animal flesh eaten by people to differentiate from sea life and vegetables, but in the general sense, there is the meat of a nut, there is the meat of the fish, there is even the meat of a story.
True, and something a lot of people don't realize is that in ancient days, the word "meat" simply meant solid food.