Some people who give up eating meat and poultry continue to eat
fish in the belief that it is a healthy food and that fishing is
less cruel and environmentally destructive than farming. Nothing
could be from the truth. There is no question that fish caught
for food suffer. Numerous scientific reports have examined the
question of whether fish feel pain and all recent investigations
have supported the conclusion that they do. In July 2004 the
European Food Safety Authority issued a report on slaughter they
examined the killing of farmed fish. They concluded that “many
existing commercial killing methods expose fish to substantial
suffering over a long period of time.” They also noted that
“asphyxia/asphyxia in ice . . . and bleeding out/exsanguination
are not humane methods for killing fish.” Asphyxia – being
starved of oxygen - is the method by which wild, trawled fish
are killed. It is a horrible death – far worse, indeed, than
that faced by most land animals. Commercial fishing of the
oceans has decimated b