2007-01-25 00:19:52 · 17 answers · asked by stuart r 2 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Other - Outdoor Recreation
have you ever eaten fish? or eaten chicken or pork or beef? you can't tell me that you have not. have you ever spent a cent on conservation of a lake or stream? i really don't think so. the majority of people that volunteer the time and money to protect things are the people that use and understand the resource so people like you can visit and see how amazing things really are. it's easy for you to make statements like that when all you do is sit in front of your computer and never get your hands dirty.
you should maybe do some research or try something before you become a critic.
2007-01-25 01:39:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Fish don't have individual reasoning minds and therefore their only value to us is as food, sport, or for use in regards to our other interests, such as biology, because they're pretty, or keeping them as pets. Cruelty doesn't enter into it because they're animals and, without us humans to force our reason-inspired civilization upon them, their lives are already short, brutal and cruel.
A fish caught on a hook is no less brutalized than if it were eaten by another fish, and a dog chained up in a backyard is no less cruel than a wild dog scavenging for scraps on the Serengeti.
Difficult to accept with the propaganda we've been fed, but I'm afraid it's true. If you're trying to help animals escape "cruelty," you're only doing it because you're projecting your civilized reasoning human mind onto them, that they do not have in any way. Cruelty is an animal's lot in life, it's their only way. Only we as humans have risen above that and embraced fair trade over the use of force in dealing with our fellow men.
2007-01-25 14:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say yes, but...
If you really think about it. I would not like to be hooked in the mouth and either let go like nothing ever happened or eaten, but as a human I don't think I could give up eating fish and other type of animal I could do without except fish.
Is it cruel for a bear to grab a jumping salmon and spear it with it's sharp claws then bite it's head off?
2007-01-25 08:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by Open Minded Human 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I do! I'm a vegetarian. When a fish is caught, it is bundleed up in a net with hundreds of others, dragged on board tipped from the nets and left to die gasping for air! Not nice.
I don't preach vegetarianism, it just personally the way I feel about things.
It's strange how if we decide a creature is cute, then as Dennis Leary would say, "You're free to go" but if it a cow "get on the truck pal, we're gonna make a baseball glove out of you!"
Not many people would want to kill and eat their pet goldfish, so why are other fish any different?
2007-01-25 08:31:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think it would be cruel to catch a fish just for sport..., thats just torture.
For food? I'm sorry, If I need to eat and we all have to eat - the fish goes to the big pond in the sky. Its that simple.
And need I mention that Jesus who was with God in the beginning and the instrument through whom all things were made, he ate fish. So if there is a big moral dilemma about eating fish you catch - I think it can be dismissed.
I might point out that fish were caught and eaten in those days - not hooked and tossed back for pleasure. The same thing with hunting game. They did it for food, not pleasure. If there was pleasure it was handled during the process of the hunt for food.
A man or woman who will starve themselves and their children before eating a fish has lost touch with their minds... unless of course they have some lethal allergy to fish.
And lastly - the only point someone can make with me is pointing out how tainted much of our fish are. Tuna for example has mercury content that just is not healthy. We dump tonnes of chemicals in our lakes, streams and oceans... and one has to wonder - just how safe it is now days to eat fish. If faced with starvation - the risk seems worth taking.
2007-01-25 09:10:24 · answer #5 · answered by Victor ious 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes....especially after trying to reel in the big one, only to have the line snap when the fish is only a few yards out.....that sucks!
You lose your fish, lose your bait, and lose any possibility of bragging rights.....pretty cruel to me.....
2007-01-25 09:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by sort187 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
tell that to the Japanese scientific community for dragging
a giant squid 900 meter up in order to catch a life specimen
They are the cruel and stupid fishermen with a degree in biology
2007-01-25 09:19:55 · answer #7 · answered by kimht 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO hugging trees is cruel
2007-01-25 09:15:29 · answer #8 · answered by Nate K 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no it is the same as hunting if people don't do it population will grow to be more then will can handle and then poeple will complain about to many animals
2007-01-25 09:28:19 · answer #9 · answered by Bill Malchow 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
depends on how you are fishing! if your just angling for pleasure and you release the fish then thats alright, yet if you go harpooning baby dolphins then thats not
2007-01-25 08:28:29 · answer #10 · answered by wang eyed lil 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋