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Fish? No thanks!
Fish have a complex nervous system and just like the other animals,
they feel pain.
Whether the fish are harvested from the sea or from fish farming,
the results are the same: they are suffocated - an atrocious death
and terrible suffering that no one takes into consideration.
Fish cannot scream their pain as land animals do, but they are
aware of what is happening to them and they do suffer. This was
the conclusion of a report in September 1996 entitled Farm Animal
Welfare Council Report on the Welfare of Farmed Fish commissioned
by the English Ministry of Agriculture on the relationship between
the well-being of fish bred for food and the well-being of land
animals also bred for food.
"... the scientific evidence concerning such effects makes
it clear that the term stress is certainly relevant to fish and
that the means by which stress effects are mediated are very similar
to those in mammals. Evidence that the term pain is applicable to
fish comes from anatomical, physiological and behavioural studies
whose results are very similar to those of studies on birds and
mammals. The fact that fish are cold blooded does not prevent them
from having a pain system and, indeed, such a system is valuable
in preserving life and maximising the biological fitness of individuals.
The receptor cells, neuronal pathways and specialised transmitter
substances in the pain system are very similar in fish to those
in mammals."
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