Misleading Myth #15 … “But I only eat fish, and fish don’t feel pain” (07/18/14)
Actually, this rationalization rests on a complete falsehood; a myth of mere convenience as hollow as it is delusional. Fish DO feel pain; fish DO form bonds with others that can only be called “friendship”; fish DO have what can only be appropriately termed “individual personalities”; fish DO have a sense of self-awareness; fish DO feel pain and deeply fear the same; fish DO hurt deeply when hooked or netted; and fish DO suffer greatly when killed.
Yes, it is a good thing for all cows pigs & chickens that you have chosen to stop supporting their enslavement & chosen to stop funding their murder … AND it is not a good thing that you do so at the expense of equally viable, equally sensitive & equally sentient beings — namely, the fish.
Just because an animal looks completely different from you does NOT mean that its nerve-endings are any less sensitive, does NOT mean that its fears are any less acute, and does NOT mean that its ability to suffer is any less dramatic.
And please rest assured that all of this information comes not from a place of judgment or arrogance, for I too once chose to believe similar falsehoods about fish, and I did so for many years …
… up until I became informed of the needless suffering I was co-generating …
… at which point I simply stopped supporting it.
Unlike the brilliant complexity that is the average fish, it really is that simple.
Peace to ALL … S
“I wouldn’t deliberately eat a grouper any more than I’d eat a cockier-spaniel … Fish are sensitive; they have personalities; they hurt when they’re wounded; they suffer when they die.” – oceanographer Sylvia Earle
P.S. “But I need my Omega 3’s” is not a valid excuse.
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