Fact about fish

Fish, like other animals sentient animals feel pain and there is scientific evidence to prove this.

Do fish feel pain?

Fish do feel pain.


If you're a scientist how can you over look these studies and continue to fish or eat fish?

I know that for most of my life I held a bias against fish. Somehow I believed that they were different and didn't really suffer as much as the rest of us.  I don't know what evidence I based this assumption on! None! It allowed me to eat fish occasionally during my "vegetarian" days. I've stopped finally.  There are no excuses for that.

I also recall as a young adult accompanying my dad and uncle when they went fishing on my uncle's farm. I was told to carry the live fish by hooking my fingers through their gills. I don't know why I agreed as my instincts told me right away that this was cruel and wrong.  How would you like to suffocate? Or be carried by your lungs?  I've come to realize that I am quite a passive person. I've also come to realise that as a young person, even though I loved animals tremendously, I was often quite oblivious to obvious wrongs being done to them in front of me. It must be true that our personhood, moral awareness and compassion develops as we get older.