Is it true...

[ummmm]

That fish don't feel pain? Or seafish...

I was watching river cottage the other night when he was out fishing. They were catching prawns and putting them into little compartments to size them....

A live crab had some part of him torn off his back and then stabbed between the eyes...

Then they belt the fish over the head...

Just all looked a bit cruel....If livestock were treated the same way they'd be uproar.

Do they really not feel pain?

[paddywak]

Like barmaid I've no problem killing for food, a couple of cod or a brace of pheasants I've no problem with, it's the wholesale slaughter of animals in the name of "sport" I've never liked. Near the pit that I worked at they raised pheasants for shooting and they were fed like chickens and had to be "beaten" onto the guns to make them fly. It was never shooting to my mind. At least a wild bird had a good chance, some times a target a pheasant or hare for instance would come out from under your feet that quickly that it was out of range before you could react

[China Doll]

Tickling something to death sounds inhumane to me! Lol...

[Barmaid]

Too damn right China. I absolutely detest being tickled. I could actually get quite violent if someone tickled me.

[China Doll]

<High fives barmaid> Darn tooting! ;0)

[wildwood]

I don't know where the myth came from that fish don't feel pain. Perhaps it has been dreamed up by the fishing industry to overcome the task of hitting each individual fish they catch over the head for a quick dispatch.

We are still tucking into beacon that has been raised in terrible conditions and a calf that is kept under constant stress by keeping it in a box so small that they can't even turn around, produces the finest veal.

We are what we are. Cruel and misguided by our own importance.