Fish

[canarsie11]

My gf the other day (not a big fan of the hobby, but coming around), ask me a crazy question.

We were out at restaurant I ordered fish.

She asked me, "Dont you feel funny eating fish, and you keep them as pets?"

I immediately said it was stupid question, but since then cant question of my head.

But I still ate the fish

 

[SirMinion]

A lot of people keep mammals as pets (cats dogs, rabbits, etc) and are quite happy to eat mammals (sheep, pigs cows etc)

It might be different if you sat down to a big plate of neon tetra soup with cory paté on toast, but in most cases the fish that you eat are no more closely related to the fish that you keep than cats are to cows.

*shrugs*

 

[Sorrell]

We had a guy in town that raised tilapia for food and he gave me six that I kept as pets. When I tried to research them I found a bunch of them on plates I also see them as filets in Wal-Mart

I love me some salmon though

 

[phil]

Hi Canarsie

I believe that some fish we keep as pets are a food source in their local countries - even in the U.K. one of our local species the humble gudgeon used to be a food fish in the middle ages - gudgeon tansy.
I enjoy sea fishing for species like Cod, Haddock, Conger eel, Ling, Whiting, Bass and relish eating what I catch - I follow a simple rule - I kill nothing I am not going to eat (or want to).
At the end of the day we keep fish as it gives us pleasure (and have enough money to live comfortably) - if we were starving I think most would consider from a different perspective - survival and not keep fish as pets but as a food source.
I have about 15 different species of fish now and enjoy not only watching them but also learning about them - my favourite are my silver sharks (bala sharks).

Phil

 

[SirMinion]

I believe that some fish we keep as pets are a food source in their local countries

Very true, and some people keep sheep, pigs & even cows as pets, and of course in parts of Asia, dogs are on the menu.

It's a cultural thing.

 

[Ben]

giant gouramis,i believe, are on the menu in malaysia

DD

 

[mwm]

Black Sharks are on some menu's to

 

[Dorkhedeos]

human are on the menu too

 

[phil]

human are on the menu too

Yes Some great whites have eaten humans (maybe even some pirhanas) - so I think this makes it fair

Phil

 

[gwlee7]

I think your gf is trying to pay you back for turning your office into a fish room. What she doesn't know is that while trying to cure you of MTS she is most likely to catch it herself. That appears to be when it is most contagious.

 

[Kittycat]

Yeah, sometimes it creeps me out when I see dead fish in the supermarket/freezer and they remind me of my dead fishes in the tank. That's why I don't like keeping large fishes, esp those silvery ones that resemble "food" type of fishes...

 

[CTS]

We had a guy in town that raised tilapia for food and he gave me six that I kept as pets. When I tried to research them I found a bunch of them on plates I also see them as filets in Wal-Mart

I love me some salmon though

I actually had this fish at Red Lobster. I never knew that it could be a pet.
But i also have to say that it tasted like Pickerel mmmmmmmmmmmmm Pickerel

 

[CFC]

Almost all larger species of fish we keep as pets are seen as food in their native countries, even the stunning and high priced zebra shovelnose Meredontotus tigrinus can be bought dead from local markets for a few pennies/cents.

 

[Polardbear]

I've never been a big eater of fish myself, but I actually felt guilty the other night when we were eating shrimp cocktail in the living room. I felt like the fishies were staring at me horrified. I kept telling them that if it's ok for them to eat brine shrimp it's ok for me to eat big shrimp. It didn't help, I still felt quilty.

 

[fufanu360]

i catch fish and eat them, and i have aquarium fish, two entirely different things, not only size, but water as well