alive again today

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Here’s some Fishing 101:

Fish look so unlike humans, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that they feel pain in the same way we do, but scientists who study pain are in complete agreement that the fish pain response is basically identical to the pain response system in mammals and birds. Fish also lead complex intellectual lives that rival those of dogs and some other mammals. The fish industry is completely foreign to most people, whose experience with fish is limited to the frozen food section in their local grocery store. These intelligent, complex animals are slaughtered by the billions with very little consideration for their suffering… [N]ets rip hundreds of tons of animals out of the ocean, squeezing some of them so tightly against the sides of the nets that their eyes bulge and burst out of their skulls. For hours, trapped fish are dragged along the ocean floor with netted rocks, coral, and ocean debris. The scales of many fish are completely ground off. When hauled out of the water, surviving fish undergo excruciating decompression. The intense internal pressure ruptures their swimbladders, pops out their eyes, and pushes their esophagi and stomachs out through their mouths. Fish who survive this terrifying journey are tossed onto ice to slowly freeze to death or be crushed when piles of schoolmates are thrown on top of them. On some ships, processing begins immediately, so as they are suffocating or freezing to death, fish are sliced in half, packaged, and placed into the ships’ frozen storage areas.

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