Pescatarianism - What do you think?!
I have done some research myself and have found that there is also evidence to support fish having various pain receptors. What are your views on eating fish?
Answers: My friend eats fish and sea food on the basis that apparently fish and sea creatures do not have developed enough nuerology nor brain to feel pain.
I have done some research myself and have found that there is also evidence to support fish having various pain receptors. What are your views on eating fish?
It's been proven that fish do have pain receptors and can feel pain. Even if some people don't want to believe this it's a fact but for arguments sake, let's say they can't physically feel pain....
Fish when faced by a predator will try and escape. It would please them to live and displease them to die which is why they avoid it. The opposite of pleasure is pain and so if a fish is dying they are in pain because all living beings want to live. So by killing a fish you are obviously causing it pain because what bigger pain can there be than to die?
Fish may not be as cute or cuddly as mammals but that doesn't mean we should treat them with any less respect. They may not be as intelligent (the way humans see it anyway) as mammals but should we really kill something just because we see it as stupid and ugly? Imagine if we felt the same way towards humans!
That's not to metion the environmental factors of eating fish... Modern day fishing literally bulldozes through the oceans. Trailing nets are indiscriminate towards species so lots of animals such as seals, whales, dolphins, turtles and birds get trapped in them and die as a result of fishing. Ecosystems gets destroyed... just because we can't normally see what's going on under the sea, that doesn't mean we should just do as we please to it. We're destroying the oceans just to please our tastebuds. And just think of how polluted the waters are... this affects the health of the fish which in turn affects the health of those that eat it.
Anyway, to your friend who tries to excuse herself by saying fish don't feel pain... it's just not true. If she wants to eat fish then that's fine but she should appreciate that the only reason she does so is to please her tastebuds.
That is one way to get nutrition in there.
I will only eat shell fish (except lobster and crab). the pain receptors developed from the lateral line system found in all vertebrates. Fish can feel pain, not like humans do but they do feel pain.
I think it's no better than eating other animals. I can't stand it when people call themselves vegetarian but eat fish. I think a lot of it is ignorance and people don't know about the difference between vegetarianism and pescatarianism but it does irritate me.
A girl at work calls herself a vegetarian but eats chicken or fish once a week as she says she is anaemic. I tell her that green vegetables would be a better choice for a "vegetarian" but she's not quite getting it!
i don't eat any meat fish or seafood and don't miss any of it i think it crule i wwent fishing brfor and we caught a fish it was like thrashing because it could breath i cryed til they put it back in the water
its a living animal, u can't eat it
how can u even get pass the idea that when tis served, it still has it's eyes!!! ITS WATCHING U!
Fish do feel pain when they are impaled, crushed, suffocated, or sliced open and gutted while they're fully conscious. A friend of mine actually became vegetarian after spending the summer on a fishing boat, because he was horrified by the cruel methods used to catch and kill fish.
If people want to become pescetarian, then good for them. But they are kidding themselves if they think fish are unable to feel pain.
http://fishinghurts.com/FishFeelPain.asp
Pescetarian, as well as Flexitarian are made up words only to describe an 'omnivore'.
I think it's a crock of s**t! I don't eat fish, never have liked it at all, or seafood. I am now vegetarian, no meats at all. How does one figure that fish don't feel pain? That is just silly. They have faces..eyes that see...gills that breathe...mouths that help feed them...and when you catch them...they are thrashing about..and seem very afraid. When you cut them open while they are still alive and breathing....they bleed don't they? red blood. How could anyone think they don't feel this? What a dumb assumption. Now I am not an animal sympathizer, that's not why I am vegetarian...but come on...that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. If it's alive and breathing and can bleed/breed and live a life...then trust me it must feel pain!
I am of the vegetarian/vegan persuasion that vegetarians/vegans do not eat anything that had a mother.
I don't get into the nerves or feelings, because I have heard crabs tossed in boiling water scrambling to try to get out. I don't think they like it.
if you are a vegetarian/vegan most of the time, but not all of the time, then what you are is a person who eats maybe 60% or 70% vegetarian or vegan, but you are not a vegetarian/vegan who sometimes eats fish/seafood.
As I see it, this is a personal choice, which should be made without any shame or guilt. If a person chooses to eat in a certain way, they should be free to choose that way, regardless of what other people think -- it seems to me I have heard vegetarians and vegans here saying that *they* should be free to choose the way they wish to eat.
I do think that one should accept one's choices and admit to them, and describe oneself accurately....
I think it is best to be a vegan.
I think that it is better to eat vegan as much as possible, but some people cannot bring themselves to go 100%.
I think that 75% vegan (or vegetarian, for that matter) is better than none. (I do not, however, think that people who eat this way should identify themselves as anything more than "mostly vegetarian or vegan". There is no shame in such a designation, as I see it.
For myself, I don't believe it would be the right choice. I don't feel it is my place to take the life away from another creature when it is not necessary for my survival. As long as your friend isn't calling herself a vegetarian though, I don't have a problem with her being a pescatarian. At least she has reduced her land animal consumption, which is more than most people do. She certainly is misguided in her reasoning though. Of course fish feel pain, they have a central nervous system. She is probably just looking for a justification to do it because if she accepted the fact that they do suffer and feel pain, she'd probably feel guilty and wouldn't be able to eat them anymore.
People can come up with all sorts of justifications for eating fish. I don't get it...is it because fish aren't cute like lambs etc?
I'm a vegan, I don't eat anything from any animal (including fish and other non-cute creatures such as silkworms, beetles etc).
Quite normal. Your friend probably dislikes angling, on the basis that fish feel pain. Food is there to be eaten, regardless of its animal or plant source.