View Full Version : Do You Think It is Cruel how some fish Are Raised Just To Be Fed To Other Fish?
yellow tang
08-11-2006, 4:04 PM
Do you think it is cruel how many fish are raised just for the purpose of being fed to another fish? Put yourself in the fishes position, being raised from a baby to be fed to a let's say a red tailed catfish with no escape.
YoFishboy
08-11-2006, 4:07 PM
Where do you think the fish meal in your flake food comes from?
fishcatch22
08-11-2006, 4:09 PM
wow, what a perplexing catch22.... I really can't vote on this, honestly.
gst4life
08-11-2006, 4:09 PM
shrimp, natural ingediants, FISH meal,ground brown rice, dried yeast,potato protein. its not got barely fish in it.
kjf91004
08-11-2006, 4:14 PM
Isn't it basically the same for humans? That's exactly where your hamburger, leather goods, gelatin, etc. all come from.
I guess no matter how you look at it, it is awful, but it is a fact of life.
redtailfool
08-11-2006, 4:34 PM
I have no problems with it. Same scenario as the chicken , pork and cattle that i eat are all bred to be consumed by us. As long as the animals were kept in sanitary optimal living conditions then its fine.
Zen4t5
08-11-2006, 4:50 PM
It is just the way of nature. It is just caring about your pet like you would a cat or a dog. You want to give it something it would enjoy and be nutritious. It is healthier to breed your own and take a chance and buy a feeder that corrupts your whole tank, not to mention the money. I think this issue has more to do with the knowledge of knowing they are gonna die. There are so many animals that are bred just for consumption, but these are ok because we only see the end product. If this is really too cruel, you might have to stop using and eating a lot of products. You would be a hypocryte if you didn't.This is just a way to help simulate a more natural enviroment for the fish, which I think most of us want to do.
gst4life
08-11-2006, 4:53 PM
Well said, If it wasn't for the humans enormous brain, we'd be getting eaten by other species left and right. The human brain it our only Advantage from other species
SwimminglyFishy
08-11-2006, 5:28 PM
I would have to say that the answer to that question for me is "it depends." I think it is fine when people feed fish to other larger predatory fish as long as the feeder fish is killed within a reasonable period of time. I don't agree with a fish being chased around a tank for thirty minutes slowly being taken apart bit by bit.
As for fish meal being in fish food, I see absolutely no problem with this. Fish eat other fish in nature, that's the way it is.
Well said, If it wasn't for the humans enormous brain, we'd be getting eaten by other species left and right. The human brain it our only Advantage from other species
Our brain and our thumbs, you mean.
fishcatch22
08-11-2006, 5:43 PM
Our brain and our thumbs, you mean.and our efficent method of communication.
IceH2O
08-11-2006, 5:44 PM
Since I have a breeding pair of convicts and a 75 gallon pred tank I'm going to let you decide what I think.
i will sit on the fence for this one as i dont feed my current fish feeders but as advised above farms for breding food for other fish and human consumption is always going to happen.
i dont like how some shops i see on the web that sell feeders keep massive amounts in small tanks it looks wrong to me.
in the UK its illegal to sell feeders.
YoFishboy
08-11-2006, 7:34 PM
The human brain it our only Advantage from other species
hehe...but not from our own...
mr_bentley78
08-11-2006, 7:49 PM
It's called "The Food Chain".
It's life...
i use a lot of fry and juvies from my tanks as feeders for my fishies--they love em. i do some deep sea fishing peridically. i always eat that. fish is good. even if you are a fish.
sirasoni
08-11-2006, 8:13 PM
Nothing wrong with it as long as the feeders are clean.
gunther
08-11-2006, 10:19 PM
( No offense to the original poster)
This is one of those bleeding heart topics that is as laughable as the fish nazi mentality that sometimes occurs here. There are a billion causes more noble than making sure people don't sacrifice some unfortunate fish to their natural predators.
If your horrified by this in the LEAST you had better be a vegetarian Amish farmer or you are a hypocrite in a million ways you haven't thought of.
Girls do you wear makeup? Animal tested by sticking it in some bunny's eye.
Eat ANY meat? You're a repulsive carnivore that waited around for your helping of slaughtered farm raised pig and texas steer. Wear any leather jackets, shoes...etc. You get the point.
Look on the bright side........if we weren't "civilized" enough to have some people breed and raise our food in controlled conditions you'd be out clubbing it yourself. I seriously doubt the alternative natural evolution of cavemen would have been to plant crops and sit around waiting for dinner.
tmtpowers
08-12-2006, 1:09 AM
I actually voted yes. Reason being is because the way most feeders are kept. They are kept in over crowded tanks that are usually full of diseases. I personally think thats cruel and inhumane. As for properly raising the fish and housing them a little better to prevent sickness and then being fed to another fish, well, it is nature and I'm fine with that. Its the same with some human meat farms. Am I against eating meat? Of course not. Would I like to see the animals have a decent life before ending up on our plates? Of course. Same with the feeder fish.
Nope, I don't think it's cruel at all.......we raise chicken, cattle and pigs for the same reason for us.........everyone's gotta eat something...... :huh: