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Subject: Re: Live trout in grocery stores
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 08:33:19 EST
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In article <456@ho95e.UUCP> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill Stewart 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs HO 2G202) writes:

>(Disclaimer: Ok, so I'm not a vegie, and I do eat meat, but still..)
>
>I was walking through a grocery store the other night, and they'd just
>put in a live trout tank in the appy department.  There was this fish
>staring at me with a dumb-looking expression on its face, and it really
>bothered me that it was just sitting there for someone to kill it and eat it.

Why would the impending end of an animal with a brain the size of a
popcorn kernel bother you when you're surrounded in the meat
department by the body parts of animals that have much more complex
nervous systems and hence are much closer than us in their responses
to pain and emotional stimuli?

Fish are dim bulbs, intellectualwise (if I may Haigspeak myself :-).
Feeling empathy for a fish makes as much sense to me as feeling
empathy for an oyster or a block of wood.

                        -- A True Troutivore, Bill Ingogly