fish are sentient and feel pain

[John Ingram]

Not trying to start anything here but this was just posted to the Straight.com

Hopefully not another band wagon for the environmentalists to latch onto

Lets see what happens

Chantelle Archambault: It's an inconvenient truth that fish are sentient and feel pain

Switching to a plant-based diet would reduce the consumption that has led to 90 percent of the world's marine fish stocks being exploited and depleted.

www.straight.com

 

[sly_karma]

Will they demand orcas stop being cruel to salmon and insist they too become vegan?

 

[Original]

I love every fish I catch !

 

[wishiniwasfishin1]

I could actually see this info having an impact on some of the local fishing shows…

 

[Aces]

I apologize to those Chinooks I released today lol

 

[Dave]

I could actually see this info having an impact on some of the local fishing shows…

Not just fishing shows ... this will have impacts on all sports fishing as it's more ammunition for anti angling advocates and FN.

 

[islandboy]

Are rocks sentient?

 

[SpringVelocity]

I apologize to those Chinooks I released today lol

Lol

 

[SpringVelocity]

Anyone tired of feeling guilty for fishing? I sure am.

 

[spring fever]

I don't feel guilty!! I just wish I could figure out what all the Anti's care about and work on depriving them of what they think they have to have!! LOL

 

[Aces]

Anyone tired of feeling guilty for fishing? I sure am.

Guilty is the last thing I think of when I think of fishing

 

[ChilliSpoons]

I’ve been married for 29 years, I no longer have any feelings

 

[Adrenafin]

When i club him in the head i do it the nicest way possible.

 

[Rockfish]

We are convinced that my outboard kicker is also sentient and feels emotional pain. Recently, it has been going through a particularly difficult period that is severely effecting its work performance. We have been working on its physical health with fuel supplements to relieve the carburetors' extreme constipation which has helped some, but it still seems to be listless and has loss interest in its primary activities which previously gave it great joy. We have been giving it lots of support and attention. We are reassuring it that we love it unconditionally and that a lot of kickers go through this. It may be depressed about the possibility of upcoming major carb. surgery. We are at a loss as to what next steps to take. We are concerned that it may be becoming addicted to fuel system cleaning additives, but it has a hard time getting itself started without them.

 

[walleyes]

I refuse to believe they feel pain as we do. Not saying they aren’t sensitive to touch absolutely they feel it, I’m sure they feel every vibration in the water but not pain. Let me take a hook and stick it in anyones lip and see how hard they pull against it. Anyone that has worked with horses knows what I am talking about. You have a raunchy horse and you want to do some work on it like trim the hooves you take a lip sinch onto the bottom lip and that animal doesn’t make a wrong move, straightens them right out. The pain over rides their ambition to act up. Same would happen to anyone of us if we had a hook stuck in our lip, you wouldn’t pull or fight back even the slightest.

 

[ziggy]

Fish are also much smarter than most Georgia Strait writers.

 

[Sea lyin’]

I don’t know about pain but Kurt Kobain says “it’s ok to eat fish, they dont have any feelings” and Nirvana is way more pertinent to me and my life than yet another granola eater.

 

[agentaqua]

if the proposed rationale is that plants cant feel pain and fish do - maybe it's an inconvenient truth for the hypocritical veggie-pushers that plants also have consciousness and we shouldn't eat them using the same rationale:

Can Plants Feel Pain?

With neither brains nor nervous systems, most biologists think not. But they do respond to “painful” stimuli in fascinating ways.

www.discovermagazine.com

 

[Rockfish]

if the proposed rationale is that plants cant feel pain and fish do - maybe it's an inconvenient truth for the hypocritical veggie-pushers that plants also have consciousness and we shouldn't eat them using the same rationale:

Can Plants Feel Pain?

With neither brains nor nervous systems, most biologists think not. But they do respond to “painful” stimuli in fascinating ways.

www.discovermagazine.com

Love the scene in the move Notting Hill with an extreme vegetarian who will only eat fruit that has dropped from the tree and is therefore dead. When asked - so these carrots are?, she responds - yes, murdered.

 

[RalphH]

Nothing new here and these stories have circulated on various sportfishing media for a decade or more. While studies based on painful stimuli show fish do experience extreme discomfort others argue the brain structure of fish (they lack a neocortex) and mammals differs so significantly that fish don't feel pain as we do nor can they suffer in the existential sense humans do, rather they experience nociception, the presence of harmful stumuli.

Do fish feel pain? Not as humans do.

Why fish do not feel pain.

Can fish really feel pain?