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02/06/2005: "FISH RIGHTS"
Do fish and other forms of seafood have any rights? Not many, not yet anyway. Does anyone stop to think? Maybe a few. Maybe in time this will change when young kids wake up to what goes without being questioned today.
Once it was fashionable to hunt whales. Not any more.
Once is was OK to boil live lobsters, prawns and crabs......but people are beginning to do things like drowning the crustaceans in fresh water first (which may still cause a burning type of pain).
The coral trout (pictured) has been brought to the surface from quite deep water, maybe 40 meters deep. The sudden change in pressure has forced the eyes to pop almost out of the sockets. To make matters worse, the fish is being kept alive until being gutted (probably with some life still evident) then cooked for the restaurant where it will end its days.
Such things seem to go un-noticed in downtown Sydney. Isn't it time for a change?
