Cruelty Free/Enrionmentally Friendly Seafood: Does This Exist?

Question

I am a vegetarian, primarily for environmental and cruelty reasons. I'd love to eat seafood if the fishing industry wasn't as damaging to the environment. Is there cruelty free and environmentally safe seafood?

Answer 1

taking fish from its habitat and "environmentally friendly" is a a complete oximoron. if you're trying to be environmentally friendly as you have been, you would leave the fish alone in their habitat and let them live their lives as they're meant. you can always opt for fish from fish farms, but that would fall under the "cruel" status.

the only cruelty-free and environmentally friendly seafood is the kind where the animals are "fake" (mock soy fish, soy shrimp, soy lobster, etc.). vegan chinese restaurants do a VERY good job with fake seafood... maybe you can check http://happycow.net/ or http://www.friendsofanimals.org/programs/vegetarianism/restaurant-guides/index.html to see if there's any around your area.

vegweb.com also has some fake tuna recipes, including this one: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=7578

best wishes :)

Answer 2

Eating seafood would negate your vegetarian status.

If you are vegetarian for environmental and cruelty reasons, the simple answer is no; there is no cruelty free and environmentally safe seafood.

Your moral objection to eating meat precludes you from eating seafood. How cruel or kind a death must it be to be considered cruelty free? Killing a fish or other seafood is the same as killing any other animal (cow, dog, etc) for food. Fish/seafood = meat.

However, if you want to eat seafood, there are more environmentally responsible choices available in the markets and they are labelled as such: i.e. dolphin safe tuna, sustainably harvested shellfish, etc.

Eat what you will, and I encourage your choice to be environmentally conscious. There are just a few technicalities that you (and others) seem to get hung up on relating to these topics.

Answer 3

Well, there are vegetarian versions of seafood products, but outside a restaurant, they can be hard to find, although I think if you go to www.vegieworld.com, you'll find some.

I know Worthington has canned "Skallops" (made entirely of vegetable protein), but I have yet to try them as I never liked seafood anyway.

That's really the only way to have environmentally friendly and cruelty-free seafood.

Answer 4

What about 'dolphin safe' tuna? Quite honestly, I don't think you can really get away from the cruelty aspect of seafood because as soon as you rip ol' Charlie outta the sea, you are, in effect, asphyxiating him because fish breathe in the water. If you look at it the other way around, if you were pulled INTO the water, you'd think that was cruel, wouldn't you?

Answer 5

This is an odd question. Vegetarians don't eat seafood. Fish and other sea life are still animals.

Answer 6

Not that i know of, but if you really like seafood eat a lot of it now cause in 50 years there would be no more fish to eat cause we would have fished it all out

Answer 7

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Answer 9

You will never find cruelty free fish to eat.

I think death counts as cruelty

Answer 10

Get a fishing pole. Shrimp and shellfish aren't good for you healthwise so stay away from those anyway. It all has mercury though.