There Is No Such Animal as "Seafood"

Published November 05, 2009 @ 02:53PM PT

I've probably said this before, but even if so, it bears repeating periodically: there is no such animal as "seafood." There are lots and lots of kinds of fishes and lots and lots of kinds of crustaceans and lots and lots of other aquatic animals. But last I checked, we haven't named a single one of them "seafood."

And even though their world looks different from ours, and they don't function in all the same ways we do, they're far smarter than most people assume. And their deaths -- whether from being gutted alive, from being boiled alive, from ruptured organs through decompression, from panicked suffocation, or via any other means -- are full of suffering, fear, and intense pain.

And causing them that suffering and killing them for so-called seafood dishes is as unnecessary as killing pigs for "pork" or chickens for "chicken" and eggs or cows and calves for "dairy."

Fishes and other water-dwelling animals aren't seafood. They're animals.

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What about ameobas ? Some are as big as grapes according to Wikipedia

Posted by Brian Earley on 11/06/2009 @ 07:05PM PT
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Of course I already let it be known what I think about fish"ing". Thanks for this reminder - Love the title!

Posted by Bea Elliott on 11/06/2009 @ 07:48PM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.