Sad to see this...

[connorlindeman]

If you live in the United States sure but I don’t live in NZ anymore. Although considering moving back, at least temporarily, to get away from the PNW winter which flares my disease so badly

How long did you live in NZ?

 

[JuiceBox52]

How long did you live in NZ?

Moved here before first grade, went back every two-ish years since then

 

[emeraldking]

I took my girlfriend to a Chinese restaurant the other night. The kind that has a fish tank. This one had two. One was crammed full of some pretty awesome cichlids. There were tiger oscars and convicts. Poor things were way overcrowded though. They had another tank with a few guppies and glo fish too. The maitre d got visibly annoyed with me for spending so much time looking at the fish. I was like "Why would you have awesome fish on display if you didn't want people to look at them?". We ended up leaving because the waitress wasn't too polite either. Next place we went to had a koi pond under the entrance walkway. You walked over thick glass tiles directly over the fish. That place was pretty loud. The fish looked pretty well cared for but that just seemed like a bad environment for them.
I felt bad for the fish in both places. Neither one was a good environment for them. One was too loud and the other overcrowded the tank.

Well, this is actually a global problem. In chinese culture, this way of keeping fish is quite normal. And yes, at a whole bunch of chinese restaurants worldwide, you'll see this happening. One can get upset by all this but that's just the way it is. And even if I look at my own asian background, it's normal. I wouldn't do this either but certain things within a culture are hard to ban from this world.