GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I am so *$#!#%@# angry right now!!

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dani_starr

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So I was having a fun time chatting with my stepmom after she picked me up after work and the convo turned to fish. She asked me if I wrote a 2 page letter to the church defending goldfish and how they can feel pain and stuff along those lines. (Although it does sound like something I'd do, I didn't write it)

I asked more about this, and she finally told me what happened to inspire such a letter from someone.

To sum it up, at this Baptist Light Church she and my Dad go to, one of the church groups had a contest or something like that going on about memorizing verses. Somehow, this contest turned into something where there was A FISH SWALLOWING CONTEST. :jaw::rant2:
This one guy WHILE AT CHURCH (for some group thing) about 40 swallowed 4 goldfish, this other guy about 35 I guess swallowed 2 goldfish. The women looked up "methods to swallowing fish" online so that "your throat doesn't get scratched."

I mean this wasn't a college frat party (my boyfriends lovely friend was at one where all the people were swallowing fish with vodka as part of an initiation thing, lets just say things got EXTREMELY heated on fb with me, him, and her on that) this was at CHURCH!!





And it was for some dumb contest!



I am just dumb founded at this.

Doesn't anyone think anymore?!?

I can't believe how wide spread swallowing live fish is now!! It's frickin ridiculous!! :mad::rant2:

I mean how hard is it to understand fish have brains and nerves, therefor can feel pain and be stressed? They aren't mindless, idiots who have no memories!!!
 
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The sad thing is, when a cougar or bear eats a human, they kill the animal even though it was natural. But when this happens nothing is done. Sad stuff. Luckily my church doesn't do that.
 
Oh, but goldfish do only have a 3 second attention span... So your last sentence could be wrong.
 
Correction: nobody cares on a large enough scale. We fishkeepers find it appalling.
 
The problem is unless you're an avid fish keeper I don't think most people think of fish as being intelligent or really think about it much. Unfortunately I think most people think of fish more like snails than birds or other intelligent pets. Its gross... who would want to swallow a live fish? That's so icky... what was this contest for?
 
hey, fish eat other fish, sometimes whole...its not like they're skinning them while they're alive and rolling them in a bag of salt. Its sad but creatures kill other creatures, now a day humans do it for kicks and giggles, but at least the fish went out in a way that would simulate a natural death for them (getting swallowed). And if you think its just people who are mean ask my tetra who got shocked during the water change and then had his fins torn off by his own schoolmates so he simply sank and died?
 
swallowing gold fish is cruel.. but should we humanize fish?

if you think about it.. keeping fish in an aquarium , by some standards, is also considered cruel.

tho some intentions are good... like those who are keeping species lines going of other wise doomed species... also caused by human interventions.(think amazon=rainforest)

just a thought
 
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