Ban Fishing

[DaveB]

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You would also be pretty pissed off if some yokel in an anorak stood in front of you dangling a piece of yummy food in front of you that has a nasty hook in hidden behind it that was going to put you into a lot of pain and discomfort and maybe kill you. at least the foxhunt does not try to con the unsuspecting animal.

At least the fish gets put back in the water afterwards. Not ripped to shreds and smeared accross some upper middle class twats face.

[DodgyAgent]

At least the fish gets put back in the water afterwards. Not ripped to shreds and smeared accross some upper middle class twats face.

If you call having their mouths ripped apart and half suffocated not being cruel not once but time after time then there is no comparison

[Moscow Mule]

If you call having their mouths ripped apart and half suffocated not being cruel not once but time after time then there is no comparison

If a fish is stupid enough to get caught more than once then it deserves all the pain a little piercing through the lip can cause.

[DaveB]

If you call having their mouths ripped apart and half suffocated not being cruel not once but time after time then there is no comparison

No comaparson really since most fishermen actually give a damn about the wellfare of the fish they catch and take precautions to try and minimise the distress the suffer. Barbed hooks for example have been banned for many years now specifically because of the additional damage they cause to the fishes mouth. Not through legislation mind, but voluntarily by the angling community.

[shaunbhoy]

You could fill 100 allotments from the vegetables on this site

And you could charge a commission.

[DodgyAgent]

No comaparson really since most fishermen actually give a damn about the wellfare of the fish they catch and take precautions to try and minimise the distress the suffer. Barbed hooks for example have been banned for many years now specifically because of the additional damage they cause to the fishes mouth. Not through legislation mind, but voluntarily by the angling community.

So that's OK then? so cruelty to animals is measured according to degrees of pain? your threshold of pain for fish is acceptable but that of other "hobbies/sports" involving animals is not.
And what would have happend if it been impossible to design a hook in any other way than the barbed one? would they have stopped fishing altogether or carried on regardless?

[DodgyAgent]

And you could charge a commission.

I wouldnt get much of a margin on a sack of old spuds and some rotting turnips

[shaunbhoy]

I wouldnt get much of a margin on a sack of old spuds and some rotting turnips

Wouldn't stop you trying though.

[The Lone Gunman]

For a moment there I thought that said "ban fisting" but tthat would have got the OP banned I think.

[DaveB]

So that's OK then? so cruelty to animals is measured according to degrees of pain? your threshold of pain for fish is acceptable but that of other "hobbies/sports" involving animals is not.
And what would have happend if it been impossible to design a hook in any other way than the barbed one? would they have stopped fishing altogether or carried on regardless?

Broadly speaking, yes. And the day they come up with a way to hunt without killing or permanently harming the fox I will stop banging on about it.

Oh wait, they have, it's called drag hunting but nobody really bothers with it because it's not as much fun. Apparently.