Three Reasons Not to Eat Fish

categories: Environment and Global Warming, Marine Life, Videos, Wildlife/FreeLiving Animals

Published July 07, 2009 @ 01:54PM PT

With a hat tip to the Twitterin' Mary Martin of Animal Person, I give you this smart, short video on the fish issue, which I'd not seen before last night:

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Thanks for the mention! For most people, fish is the final flesh to eschew. But when you think about all of the bycatch and the way the fish die and what they're LIVING in, it almost seems like they should leave the diet first! But I do understand that we mammals simply find it more difficult to relate to them or see them as like us and therefore worth saving. Videos like this debunk the fish myths.

Posted by Mary Martin on 07/07/2009 @ 03:25PM PT
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Thanks for posting this, Stephanie. It's something I had not seen yet.

Posted by Lisa Smolen on 07/08/2009 @ 07:19AM PT
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For the Oceans

Posted by C P on 07/08/2009 @ 08:37AM PT
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I used to work in a place where we had a big fish tank. The main attraction was a blow fish named "Hooty". I swear that fish was human! He would follow us as we walked by, he was so friendly. His little face had a little smile. I know it sounds crazy, cuz I've never thought much about fish before, but Hooty changed my mind.

Posted by CherokeeGirl for Change on 07/08/2009 @ 03:08PM PT
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Ah yes... even when I thought I was a sensitive soul; a pescetarian with a "tender heart"... I went on many boats to hook these sea animals. I managed to ignore my inner voice that felt sorry each time a fish was captured. They were "only" fish right?

As quickly as they could be released from the barbed hook inside their bleeding mouths - they were thrown into the cooler (for a "quick" death). I could hear them flapping about, sometimes for minutes in their struggle to live. I also heard their cries. Oh yes... fish do make vocal croaks and loud screams in protest of their pain.

This fell on deaf ears before... when I choose to view them as "only" fish. But I do hear fishes cry now... even on dry land; thanks to a vegan heart. :)

And I think it's no accident that so many families (and dad's) take their kids out on "fishing trips". It's the first indoctrination that makes it "fun" to kill animals. It sets the precedent for future acts of unkindness to "other" creatures. All done with parental approval and encouragement - adult's "set the hook" regarding children's apathy towards their fellow earthlings... No wonder "sea food" is the last thing awareness penetrates.

Posted by Bea Elliott on 07/09/2009 @ 09:13AM PT
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Great video. As a vegetarian, I get asked many times if I eat fish. I've even gotten into disputes with those who don't believe that fish are meat. We'll they're not a vegetable or fruit! They are scientifically classified in the Animal Kingdom.

The way the ocean is abused, people taking more than they need, sea turtles and marine mammals drowning in nets, whaling, shark fin soup, cooking these creatures alive, plus pollution, and on and on.

Fish are actually intersting creatures, some are social, some dangerous, some are really crazy looking, but they are all perfectly adapted to thier environment thru thousands and thousands of years of evolution, why would anyone want to destroy them is beyond me.

Posted by Barbara Devine Utz on 08/06/2009 @ 12:41PM PT
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Stephanie, where did the video go? My computer has a blank screen after the colon....

Posted by Olivia White on 08/14/2009 @ 11:14PM 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.