PETA hooks the wrong fish

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 07/29/05 | Eric Heyl

[smoothsailing]

I gather you've never had Chinese take-out.:)

[D-fendr]

No, fish cannot feel pain.

But I heard a carrot scream once.

[Calpernia]

Fish whopper: 646 pounds a freshwater record

[FreedomCalls]

Never heard of a dog that could live underwater.

Seals and Sea Lions come pretty close. They are pretty much dogs with flippers. They even bark.

[smoothsailing]

WOW! That's gonna take at least a 55 gallon drum of tartar sauce!

[Smokin' Joe]

A fish can't run alongside when you ride your bicycle...(maybe the fish needs one, too..).

[Calpernia]

Along with a hefty helping of Freedom Fries!

[calex59]

I had a golden retiever that would stay in the water as long as you let him! Never had him hunt oysters though as I never took him to the ocean. If he could have breathed under water I don't think I would have been able to get him out of it:)

[smoothsailing]

Water dogs are magical friends aren't they! :^)

[Prime Choice]

Why is it okay to eat pigs (not only eat, but manufacture & process them like widgets), but not okay to eat dogs, cats, monkeys, and dolphins?

Eating such animals is a commonly-accepted practice.

...just not in our culture.

[smoothsailing]

LOL!

I've never seen a fish on a bike, but my lab could ride a surfboard!

[Smokin' Joe]

It is kind of a poke at the old lesbian saw about "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".

[Caesar Soze]

Fish respond to injury the same way they respond to many other stressors -- rapid swimming with back-and-forth motions. While not definitive, this suggests that fish react to stress/danger/badthings, but do not really have distinct pain. Not that I'm addressing the ethics of causing stress/danger/badthings to fish, just the idea that fish experience what humans call pain.

[Petronius]

Eating such animals is a commonly-accepted practice.

One which we describe with terms like "barbaric," "primitive," "savage," and a wealth of others I can't post here. My question is this: How is the eating of pigs more enlightened and morally justifiable than the eating of dogs?

Falling back on the ol' our-culture-does-it = morally right breaks down for these types of issues. (Our "culture" permits abortion, does that make it right??) The Bible condemns it, as do most moral philosphers (for different reasons of course.)

[taxesareforever]

Never heard of a dog that could live underwater. Seals and Sea Lions come pretty close. They are pretty much dogs with flippers. They even bark.

Yeah, but seals and sea lions don't leave a pile of doo in your backyard.

[BigCinBigD]

I have fished for many years on hundreds of lakes. And not once has a fish complained about it's treatment or even given me a dirty look.

[smoothsailing]

Maybe they're just shy!

[BigCinBigD]

I like to imagine the fish I catch and release telling their friends that they abducted by aliens. Taken up to a strange ship,given a medical exam,measured and returned. The other fish are all like.Yeah sure you were. :o)

[Gamecock]

I love fishin'.

I get plenty of double-takes when I catch bass and catfish on my fly-rod, that's for sure.

I also have a great time dove hunting. Nothing like being out in a field in the early morning or late afternoon when the Mexican White Wings are out and about. My group of 10 huntin' buddies from my Presbyterian* Church love nothing more than whopping it up when one of those little turbo charged F16s is knocked down. My 13 year old daughter loves cleaning my fish and dove.

What a great country.

*PETA=Presbyterians Eating Tasty Animals (Not the PCUSA, but the PCA)

[nightdriver]

What does a fish feel when it is eaten by another fish?

Does a fish have a right to eat another fish?

Do I have as much of a right to eat a fish as another fish does?

Serious minds want to know! (ROTFLMAO!!)