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.
This is an extremely sad video so much so that I couldn't continue to watch to the end. It's amazing what people can do without thinking of the consequences to something that is alive, regardless of what it is. I myself live in Texas and it alarms me that we use such cruel tactics in order to make a buck. The government needs to step in and find a more humane way and solution to help any and all abused creatures.
I don't see that it would change the way the fish tastes, so this doesn't bother me at all. It would be kinda dangerous with the fish flopping all around though. It might cause you to get cut with the knife. A cleaning board and electric knife would solve that problem though.
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