Why catholics don't eat meat on Fridays?

It is only during lent, catholics don't eatmeat on Fridays but, many others also follow on the opthe normal fraidays. Again it Depends on how a person himself belives in his religion.but nowear in the bible it says  not to eat meat on fridays

As many subjects within the Catholic Church, abstanence of meat on Fridays, at least in Latin countries, was because of the high cost of meat, fish was much more available and less costly. It also provided nutrition to people that had very little money available for anything else. 

Wow, all of these answers are really ignorant.  People really shouldn't talk if they don't have any desire to know or speak the truth.  Otherwise, all one says is false.

 I don't think anyone who takes his faith seriously would question the small sacrifice of abstaining from meat on Fridays (which is still obligatory, but may for good reason be substituted with another sacrificial offering or penance) because it is very minor in comparison with the sacrifice of Our Lord on the Cross for our eternal salvation.  You don't have to convince me to trade something of minimal value for something of incalculable value.

 The (small) sacrifice is the real meaning behind this practice.  Anything else you might hear is merely propaganda or bitterness.  Everyone is a revisionist historian these days...man, it's just not cool anymore.  It is, on the contrary, really ignorant.

Yes, that is correct. Blindly ahere to myth just becuase it exists  and that is what you are told.  The people who flew planes into the World Trade Center blindly accepted the fact that they would be rewarded for their monsterous actions.  To the extent that there is a God, I sincerely doubt he would hate you becuae you ate a burger on Good Friday and damn your soul to eternal damnation . . . and if God is so petty, are you sure you want to worship such a god who would sentence you to an eternity of horrific torture because you had a Big Mac attack on friday during lent?

Beleive nothing, and question everything. 

? I don't understand, did christ say we were not suppose to eat meat on Fridays?  And if he did where exactly does it say that we are not suppose to eat meat on Fridays. I know he mentions fasting in the book of matthews in which he also says fasting is private and that no one else is suppose to know one is fasting.  So why do Catholics make it so clear to everyone when they are fasting?

There is no such "commandment" from Jesus or anywhere in the Bible.  I learned, many years ago, that the Italian fisherman had complained to the Vatican that people  weren't eating enough fish and they would if the Pope sanctioned the eating of fish for Fridays.  Therefore, people accepted his word and after that through the years, it was thought of as a "sin" if one were to eat MEAT on Fridays.