Calling all vegans and vegetarians! Please answer this for me?

Question

How would you convince someone to stop eating fish? Andddddd......GO! Haha.

Answer 1

You know, telling someone to do something will make them less likely to do it. It's basic psychology. Like, when your parents tell you to clean your room, and suddenly, you don't want to, just because they told you to. With food, it's the same thing. If you told me to stop eating chocolate, for example, I would open a chocolate bar and slowly eat it in front of you.



Look, I respect you as a vegetarian/ vegan. Go ahead and eat all the veggies you want. But I know for a fact, that if you started to get all preachy preachy to me, some of that respect would go away. It's great that you are excited about vegetarianism/ veganism, but it's also great if you hold the same respect for non-vegetarians.

Answer 2

Well first , ha ha ? Whats so funny , you got some REALLY great answers from some obviously intelligent people.



Second, id have to tell you why i personally DONT eat fish. Its a FISH. ALIVE once. Done.



Thirdly , if you SAW the fishing industry you would see how they are caught and its NOT a pretty story. They are caught in bunches, crushed by other fish gasping for air and life. Not a good way to go out of this world. No better than the other meat industry.



Those nets catch OTHER types of fish that is NOT meant to be caught that day, crabs, jellyfish, squid, etc... beautiful and wonderous creatures , these animals DIE on the decks as they sift through the catch to pick out what they want. The dead unfortunate catch that they didnt WANT is thrown back into the ocean, its life ended for NO other reason than they were fishing for TUNA that day and not crab, lobster and other kinds of fish. Its a SAD SAD sight to see , them all laying on a deck dying for NOTHING . Many fish populations are dying out because of pollution and these horrid fishing practices.





Brazil's Environmental Justice Institute has claimed that one seafood exporter has illegally killed nearly 300,000 sharks —in response to growing demand from an increasingly affluent middle class in China, where shark fin soup is considered a delicacy.





Fourth reason, but just scratching the surface:



shark FINNING where they PULL sharks from the water, THEY CUT OFF THEIR FINS and then throw them back into the sea to spin to the bottom while they slowly bleed to death.





So yeah,,,, ha ha . ,,, funny huh , are you laughing ?

Answer 3

Over-fishing and fishing practices are a massive problem. The world could run out of seafood by 2050. It's destroying the ecosystem of the ocean. It's crucial we restore its health for the sake of the planet. I take omega-3 DHA derived from real seaweed, grown in a lab. It is a lot more expensive than fish oil but it is worth it.

Answer 4

Have them watch this video:

http://www.chooseveg.com/reasons-not-to-eat-fish.asp

Also, remind them that fish CAN feel pain:

http://vegetarian.procon.org/sourcefiles/sneddon_fish_can_feel_pain.pdf

Remind them that "29% of all commercially fished species have suffered population collapse, and at current fishing levels all harvested species will have collapsed by 2048," so if they care for the environment, they shouldn't eat fish.

Also, you have to watch out for the high amount of mercury in fish, so eating fish isn't healthy: http://vegetarian.procon.org/sourcefiles/what_you_need_to_know_about_mercury_in_fish_and_shellfish.pdf

Good luck!

Answer 5

As with all meat, fish involves the deliberate slaughtering of a totally innocent animal. Because the animal doesn't want to die, it runs away and will struggle, scream and thrash around trying to get free.

Fishing is one of the worst farming practices. Because it's underneath water, where people don't live, they often don't see the horrible abuse. Live fish that are not "right", or the correct size, shape, or breed, are thrown back into their world half broken, with beaks, fins, tails snapped off.

Those that are kept, are just left to die, slowly. It's not like they're even put out of their ******* misery. I personally would like to bludgeon the people who do this, to the same slow agonizing end.

Hobbyists, such as fishermen out for the day, not much better imo. To catch a live animal only byt he skin around its mouth is just barbaric. I wonder how they'd like it.



To really put it across, watch these:

starts getting rich at 4.30- salmon fishing, small boats.



A bit long- this is a video on bottom trawling, where a LOT of fish you eat ( fish sticks, cod, plaice, fish and chips) are got from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUHcD_jTgVA



Your average tuna kill, this is how most fish get to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1skI4507Rs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqxAcPh8_hE

Answer 6

They could be eating nemo, flounder, dory. Ect..

And fish pretty much live in a big bathtub filled with other fishies bodily waste...

Answer 7

Explain to them that fish feel pain, and he/she is causing them pain by being a consumer of fish which means more fish have to die. Plus a vegan diet increases life span, which means they'll stay young looking for longer!

Answer 8

I wouldn't want anyone to try to convince me or make me eat meat. So I don't try to force other people not to. Nothing makes me want to punch someone in the face more than their bigotry for my personal food choices. You just have to accept other people's opinions. You can't make anyone stop doing anything they want to, the same way you can't make anyone do anything they don't want to do.

Answer 9

Hi friend. I am a lacto-pesca-ovo-vegan. I'm really against exploiting animals, however, if I were to try and stop someone from eating fish I would say that they have lots of mercury in them. Mercury is a heavy metal and is toxic to humans.



Thanks,



Jessica

Answer 10

if your eating a bottom feeder fish then you could say just think of all that garbage and oil that goes in the ocean that fish is eating so if the fish eats something that is harmful to humans then they could eat that when there eating fish

Answer 11

You can lead by example. Show them how you enjoy food without fish. Offer some to them or cook for them.

Answer 12

PETA's approach is to call them Sea Kittens.



"you're not having Sea Kittens for dinner?"

No, i'm sorry, I'm not in the mood for sea kittens tonight

Answer 13

You don't. That is one thing I hate. I would never push how I eat on someone else. If they like eating fish then let them. It's none of my business, or yours, what someone else eats.

Answer 14

They drink the same water they pee in. Grossness.