Whats so bad about eating fish and seafood? enviromentily wise?

Question

I mean im a pescetarian,

i just can find a good reason to stop eating seafood. how do they kill crabs and shrimp, does it do anything to other animals? btw im 13 and became pescetarian 7 months ago! =]


anyways i eat tuna,tilapia,and sometimes trout [[i dont like fish unless fried, but i eat the tuna from a can]] but i really hate eatig fish! my mom gives me alot of tuna tho so im sickk of it! =[



i loveee shrimp and crab i hate everything else lobster oysters, everything else. umm the hardest part for me is to give up shrimp =[.

but i wanna become full vegetarian, soo i cant just stop eating seafood i have no reason and dont give me, its flesh. i stopped eating all the other meats cause it was creul how they killed them, how do they kill seafood and does it harm other animals,enviroment etc?

please dont be mean

Answer 1

There are 2 different questions here:



Is it painful for the creatures

Is it bad for the environment



The problem with many sea food farming operations (Fishing) is that they tend to remove both creatures that are edible and those that are not yet old enough, this causes a damaging effect in the species itself and overtime in the overall ecosystem. The reason that Cod is becoming an endangered species is for this very reason. Sea food also gets grabbed indiscriminately, many other non-edible specifies are harvested to get to the species needed. Again causing a broad area of damage. Tuna is particularly terrible as it kills dolphins and many other fish species. Tuna will soon be joining Cod at the rate people are killing it off. So sea food is much worse than say farming cows, as whilst meat is incredibly bad (approx 20% of all global warming is due to beef production alone), at least you are only killing animals of a certain age and food value. Sea food cannot be managed in this way. The damage is obviously far less with seafood farms, but then they have all the same environmental impact that any form of meat farming - see source



Is it painful: No one has done any research into, but given they have a nervous system its likely they feel something. No one can say yes or no for definite, so its really your choice what you want to believe. Remember though Shrimp and other sea food is pumped full of hormones and antibiotics when farmed and this finds its way into you. This explains a lot about why people in the West develop so many diseases that our parents didn't and why so many Americans are overweight. So not only are animals bad for the planet they are definitely bad for you.



I can only say I loved Tuna before I became a vegetarian - I ate it every day. But when Irealizedd the enormous environmental impact of sea food farming I just couldn't in goodconsciouss eat any kind of flesh.



There is genuinely no environmentally responsible way to farm (I include vegetables in that), we are forced to grow food much quicker than natural and this is terrible for the environment.



I ate meat for 30 years without any regard, I have been a veggie for 7 years. I am a scientist and I do a lot of research before I make a decision. I wish I could give you a happy answer, but seafood is terrible for the environment and likely unpleasant for the animal

Answer 2

If you are eating only farmed fish and don't have a problem that a living thing died for you to eat it, then there is no harm.



However, if you are eating canned tuna then you are most definitely NOT eating exclusively farmed fish. When fishermen catch fish, often they use nets which catch other sea life, like sharks and marine mammals, as well. These animals then die a horrible death by suffocation or beating.



Also, over fishing is a huge problem. Overfishing the oceans helps entire habitats to fall apart. Endangered species will thank you for not eating fish.



If you have given up all the other meat products, good for you, but there is no difference between you eating chicken and you eating fish. It is still a living thing and it is still detrimental to the earth.

Answer 3

Well to me, eating fish is just like eating meat. Another creature has died so i can eat it. I do understand what you are saying, but to me, the life of a Tuna as such is as important to me as the life of a chicken or another animal. This is just my opinion, now i'll try to answer your question for you :)



Firstly, like another answer has said spot on, loads of fish get

caught in a net (and how do the fisherman know when the net is underwater that every little fish or creature is what they want, or is even edible) and then they get taken out of the water so they can't breathe, and are left to die. Its exactly like us drowning. Would that be a pleasant experience? I doubt it! Also, i doubt the fisherman are willing to find all of the fish that they dont want and put them back into the water. So, yes, it does do things to other animals because other animals (whales, sharks, dolphins, turtles, depending on where they are fishing) can get stuck in the nets and be killed, and even if at the moment you dont see anything wrong with the way fish are killed (im not judging you at all! I respect everyones decisions, all my friends are total meat-eaters!) im sure you dont like the idea of whales and turtles being killed :(



I hope i have helped you to understand this, if you want to eat fish, theres nothing wrong with that at all, but if you dont want to eat fish, i hope this is enough information for you to decide :)



By the way, im 13 too!

Answer 4

"i just can find a good reason to stop eating seafood"

"but i really hate eatig fish"

"i loveee shrimp"



You do realize you make no sense at all right?



Seventeen of the world's major fisheries are depleting due to the excessive supply for seafood.



Fish contains mercury as well as other toxins due to the pollution in oceans.Other marine animals depend on fish for survival.You are literally stealing the food of other marine animals.



Fish are deprived of water.Lets put it this way, if you were to be drowned, would that feel good?I would think not.



I strongly recomend watching "Earthlings."

Answer 5

All fish and seafood are overfished to the point of extinction. If one species becomes extinct, another becomes extinct because it was IT'S food source. So by taking a food source that isn't rightfully your's and eating it in mass, aquatic species of life are being completely eliminated every year. Without fish and other species of sealife in our oceans and other great bodies of water, the water cannot be adequately filtered. Kind of like our trees on land. They provide many services to our oceans, and all other creatures rely on each other in this specific ecosystem.

Poor tuna. Shredded up and stuck in a can. Like fleshy hash browns from the body of a living creature...tsk, tsk. Tuna also have high mercury levels which can lead to serious health problems if eaten in excess.



It's cruel how fish are killed too. Caught in a net with thousands of others of their kind, let to flop around on deck until they eventually suffocate. That would be like if somebody tied cement blocks around our feet and tossed us into a body of water. Lacking air, as they lack water, we'd just thrash around until eventually succumbing to a cold death.

Yes. It's great to be a fish.



But to me, you shouldn't need to be told reasons to make a major life choice like that. You should feel it yourself and know it's wrong when you eat it, which is why you won't eat it.

But if you have to have research, and be convinced to not eat something you enjoy, you're just shallow and image seeking. At least don't let the fish you eat die in further vain by attempting to feel bad about it when you really don't.

Answer 6

I look at sea life as I do about farm animals. I don't eat them because I care about them. Check out these pages:



http://kindnessnotcruelty.wordpress.com/food/



http://kindnessnotcruelty.wordpress.com/wildlife/