you are not gonna believe this site

[igormothra]

FishingHurts.com >> If You Wouldn't Do This to a Dog, Why Do It to a Fish?



just thought i would share this one....should have put it in the joke forum

[Charkbait]

I've read that the only way they can actually "feel" is with their lateral line and even then it's only electrical impulses not pain.

That site is really over the top though!

[Sam]

You can order your free vegetarian starter kit!!! I had them send one over to Critter Gitter.

[chomper]

Like mickey d's..... Im luvin it.....

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Sam

You can order your free vegetarian starter kit!!! I had them send one over to Critter Gitter.

Vegetables have rights too, they feel pain!
At least that's what that fruit eater site says....

We didn't fight to the top of the food chain to go climb a tree or root in the dirt.
Well, at least most of us.
Some of that stuff they eat is pretty darned good too.

Ya know, if that's the way they want to live their lives, I would fight for THEIR right to do so. Leaves more steak for me...

[Penn Pal]

I agree with Steve.......Let's put another steak on tha barby!!!!

[Pier_man0909]

okay, that's it, i am giving up fishing.....









LMFAO, yeah right!

[Bohica]

This, like 99% of all other PETA activities is absolutely ludicrous. What started out as a grassroots organization to stop animal testing has gone the way of Greenpeace and been taken over by extremist eco-terrorist types.

Fish do not feel pain like we do. It's a fact. Their brains lack the frontal lobes that we humans have, which is where the pain receptors are. To empathically transfer 'what I think it would feel like to be gutted' onto a lower lifeform is stupid and fallacious.

Dr Rose:

The capacity to perceive and be aware of sensory stimuli, rather than just react to such stimuli requires a complex brain. In humans, the cerebral hemispheres, especially the neocortex, is the functional system that allows us to be aware of sensory stimuli. If the cortex of the human brain is damaged or made dysfunctional, we lose our awareness of sensations. For example, damage of the visual part of the cortex causes blindness, even though vision-related sensory activity is still occurring in subcortical parts of the brain. If the neocortex is widely damaged we lose our capacity to be aware of our existence in general. This loss of awareness occurs in spite of the fact that the levels of our nervous system below the cerebral hemispheres, the brainstem and spinal cord, can still be functioning and processing signals from sensory stimuli, including injurious stimuli. In a fish, “seeing” is performed by the brainstem and occurs automatically without awareness. Consequently, a fish’s visual behavior is quite normal if the small cerebral hemispheres are removed, but a human is blind if the visual cortex region of the cerebral hemispheres is destroyed. This is because our visual behavior depends greatly on conscious awareness of visual sensations.

In spite of our unawareness of brainstem functions, the brainstem and spinal cord contain programs that control our more automatic behavioral functions. Smiling and laughter, vocalizations, keeping our balance, breathing, swallowing and sleeping are all processes that are generated by these lower, brainstem and spinal cord programs.

FISH DO NOT HAVE THE BRAIN DEVELOPMENT THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE OF PAIN OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF AWARENESS

The experience of pain depends on functions of our complex, enlarged cerebral hemispheres. The unpleasant emotional aspect of pain is generated by specific regions of the human cerebral hemispheres, especially the frontal lobes. The functional activity of these frontal lobe regions is closely tied to the emotional aspect of pain in humans and damage of these brain regions in people eliminates the unpleasantness of pain. These regions do not exist in a fish brain. Therefore, a fish doesn’t appear to have the neurological capacity to experience the unpleasant psychological aspect of pain. This point is especially important, because some opponents of fishing have argued that fish are capable of feeling pain because some of the lower, subcortical nervous system pathways important for nociception are present in fish. Obviously this argument has no validity because without the special frontal lobe regions that are essential for pain experiences, lower pathways alone can’t produce this experience. The rapid, well-coordinated escape responses of a fish to nociceptive stimuli are generated automatically at brainstem and spinal cord levels but, if a fish’s brainstem and spinal cord work like a humans (and it is very likely that they do) there is no awareness of neural activity occurring at these levels.

[trowpa]

nice post Bob - very informative. If only PETA would actually look at the facts instead of relying on pictures of Fido with a hook in his mouth.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by trowpa

nice post Bob - very informative. If only PETA would actually look at the facts instead of relying on pictures of Fido with a hook in his mouth.

A "photoshopped" picture at that! Or, maybe someone should sue them for harming a dog.

[fishin'girl422]

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. Someone should start protesting the advertising campaign for animal cruelty to the dog in the pic. I am sure PETA would love that publicity!

Between them and the Audubon Society my respect for nature preserving groups is quickly decreasing! I know that me and ffemtreed personally take a lot of pride in the areas we fish; we pick up trash from other people...they definitely do not give sport fishing the respect it deserves, we aren't trying to ruin nature, most of us take pretty darn good care of it!

[DumBbaSS]

not sure what this one is supposed to be but I found it on the same page as that poor doggie. My take is that eating fish sticks makes you an evil sick child? Those people are sooo funny beware the next time your out fishing they may throw a bucket of fish guts on you.

[DumBbaSS]

hahahah I got a kick outta these as well....Gotta love these people.. THese signs help explain to the big bad hunter or evil fisherman that the animals that live on your property are thinking loving animals that don't want to be eaten by nasty flesh eating humans

[sandcaster]

Have you seen the billboard going into Kill Devil Hills.... PETA Fisherman throw out your tackle, I kept looking for some surf heavers on the side of the road, never saw any.

[Critter Gitter]

Originally Posted by Sam

You can order your free vegetarian starter kit!!! I had them send one over to Critter Gitter.

Got the starter kit today.
Thanks Buddy