Written by PETA
New undercover footage from our friends at Mercy for Animals shows how fish in a Texas slaughterhouse meet their end. The investigator documented workers using knives to slice off fins and pliers to peel away strips of skin from fully-conscious, struggling animals.
According to the USDA, the amount of farm-raised catfish—like those at Catfish Corner—processed in the U.S. in October 2010 alone was 40.5 million pounds.
Other sea animals endure similarly horrific slaughter that makes medieval torture methods look tame: crabs have their legs ripped off their bodies, one by one, while they are still alive.
Please be sure to share this video with anyone who still eats fish. Fish aren't swimming vegetables—they are living, sentient beings who feel pain, pleasure. Fish, like all animals, deserve nothing less than the most basic, common-sense protections from cruelty.
I agree with KOP3A and by seeing this unbelieveble crualty, I loose my drive to live and feeling so enorm powerless,how to stop this, and want to shake this sadists until they may feel the same slaugter all over themselves!!!!! Maybe then they understand.
STOP IT NOW!!!
How the hell can people do this to animals so cruely,they feel pain and emotion just like us. and to that silly person for her/his comments,its part of nature for bears and eagles ect to hunt for their food,its the way they survive,its not like they can go to supermarkets and buy their food,completly different circumstances altogether.
Bears and eagles ar'nt supposed to know any better, nor do they have thumbs and a fish slaughterhouse.
I have many fish in ponds and i can tell you without hesitation that they feel, they have complex ties with each other and have a high level of awareness. to treat them like this is cruel and barbaric and shows a level of inhumanity that should have left the human race by now. we live in 2011, not the 12th century. and 'Really' what are U doing on this site...? bugger off!
the video disgusted me god put us on this earth to take care it and its creatures i doubt he wants us to make animals suffer or abuse them before we eat them it gives even more reason to continue to not eat fish
Hey, guys, chill out about grrace. She makes a good point, and I agree with her. Being intentionally cruel - or Republican - is despicable and unnecessary.
I used to be a vegetarian who ate fish (mostly to make other people happy) up until a couple years ago. I went on a trip to China Town NY and saw a man on the street killing fish by beating them against a table. One fish wouldn't die and he kept beating it & beating it. So much cruelty in China Town right on the sidewalks. I couldn't believe it! Haven't eaten fish since. I couldn't justify it after reading about over-fishing, seeing pic of dead tuna, etc. Please think about it.
While the point is taken about keeping politics out of this arena, it's really hard not to. The republicans have done an excellent job aligning themselves with extreme groups that tend to favor oppressive policies, oven characterized by intolerance, racism, and bigotry. While nearly all politicians are aligned with corporate America, it is the republican party that defends the second amendment crowd blindly. And while your personal political philosophies may be in line with traditional republican thinking, your party has moved so far to the right, the republican party becomes more outrageous, and it's main players and talking heads become more and more disturbing. The gun violence in this country is protected under the guise of the second amendment furiously by the right wing in the US. Sarah Palin, one of the top figureheads in the republican party appears to have no regard or respect for our animal friends. They deny the existence of climate change, they continually fight green initiatives, and spew incredibly inflammable and hurtful speech toward anybody or any group that might interfere with their role of corporate protectors. While there are some people on the other side of the political spectrum who have sold their souls to corporate interests and the gun lobby, the majority of those types of politicans are republicans or teabaggers, and they are all one in the same. It is the republican party of Reagan that broke unions in this country, creating a decades long economic downturn. It is the repbulican party of Bush Jr. that created such catostrophic deficits that one of the only options out was by trying to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy in an array of programs in order to get the economy moving. Those extremists bringing semi-automatic weapons to Obama rallies weren't democrats, that I'll promise you. You can't worship guns and protect and defend animals. It is the right wing, relentless assault on regulation of all business, including slaughterhouses that makes the types of abuse we see and hear about on a near daily basis. So while it might make you upset when you see your party taking hits on environmental issues and deregulation, you also need to remember that you're helping put these people who are as anti-Peta as can be, into office. Do you really stand for what today's republicans do? It's a hard sell to believe you support those beliefs and also support animal rights. Just sayin.'
I just keep asking the same question over and over: What kind of people could do this to living beings. Actually, there is a second question: Where are the churches when it comes to all the animal torture in the world? How can they reconcile their view of a just and merciful God in the light of such barbaric human behavior and not call it sinful? Maybe they fear many people would leave the congregation, preferring their jobs skinning live fish, hunting, bull fighting, filling up at McDonalds, etc.
As for bears and eagles eating fish--they have no choice. This is a puzzle for theodicy but is not a valid comparison.
Aggreeing with Keith means giving up. You have power as a consumer, use it! Do not condone such behaviour. I went vegan last year, and even tho it´s really difficult, I will never eat fish again! Oh, and don´t anyone let Logan0848 rile you up. Getting angry at commenters like that are a waste of our precious energy :-)
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