“Aquarium fish are often mass bred under inhumane conditions or stripped from the wild”
As someone in the trade I call bullsh*t. I have toured the breeders my company uses. There are also limits to the number that can be collected in the wild. Over collect and you put YOURSELF out of business because the fish are gone.
Guppies and gold fish have been tank bread for YEARS.
Now, if we can pass laws like this about fish, how about allowing liberals to breed?
The laws of supply and demand are about to take Cali for a ride.
Today the democrats more or less sold California’s future. There will be no reductions in spending. There will be no checks and balances.
The state is on a binge. And it’s nowhere near closing time.
California’s plunge will be spectacular. At the end of the day though - all the freebies will come to a massive, screeching halt.
Remember how the common response to immigration control is often “you cannot deport 20 million people”?
Well. 20 million people can deport themselves the same way they got here, by choosing to leave. But illegal immigration is not the point I’m trying to make.
California is a mess because it has for so long been a magnet. Originally long ago, for opportunities and work.
Later for opportunities and weather.
For far too long now though, immigration to California has been for handouts and free stuff.
When the handouts and free stuff end (they have to, we’re broke) all those people will look and find all as a group where they can still get free stuff - and all go there like a hugh flash mob.
There will be millions who leave, remarkably fast. When CA starts to really collapse, the demographics will change almost overnight.
Either the state will in fact become one with Mexico. Or the liberals will leave and something far more about skills, and quality will emerge.
Won’t happen though until the left stops getting free stuff.
And, what am I going to give my Oscars as playmates? They actually prefer live toys...
As a fellow purveyor of aquatic tropical specimens I vouch for the inhumanity of raising fish. They do not have beds or houses, TV’s, cars or cell phones. They are forced to live completely in water and are fed miniscule amounts of highly processed, dried flake food.
Tropical fish are routinely raised in large vats so filled with food that they grow faster than their wild cousins. They are treated for disease and live 5 times longer than they would if they were in a pond somewhere. They are not treated like humans. They are treated like fish, the most basic animal invertebrate on the planet.
Fish caught in the wild are handled with extreme care. They are treated for parasites and given time to acclimate to healthy, clean environments.
Tropical fish hobbyists are among the most skilled animal keepers. They are members of a hobby and tradition that is thousands of years old. Aquarists are rewarded with animals that are beautiful and adapt wonderfully to captive environments. Most fish respond by breeding in captivity, a genuine sign of health and a stress free environment.
How dare these ignorant fools disparage a hobby that provides lessons to children in actually caring for animals, not just having warm fuzzy feeling about freeing Willy.
Pity the child who never learns the sheer pleasure of raising a tank of guppies. Curse the hate mongers who would deny the blessing of taking care of a small animal.
Father Fish