Causing pain to animals for fun - must make people feel really good about themselves. Animals have as much right to live on this planet as humans. Only self-righteous human arrogance thinks otherwise.

It is quite clear from the views of some that man has barely evolved from his primitive origins.

Well at least they cleaned the sludge out between their ears on that question of Fish feeling pain. Geesh, about 16 years back it was understood that plants feel and react though they got stumped on if it is actual pain or just a release of energy when you snap or tear a living Leaf from a plant and it emits a scream (as they labled it) so high pitched dogs can not hear it.

I'll feel bad for the Blackened Cajun Red Fish, Garlic Lemon spiced Snook and or Grouper Fingers as I dip them into my mouth.

Banning Fishing in a state like Florida would never pass. Though they should ban Fining hands down and let the Sharks make a come back.

But I do have a problem with "Sport Fishing" - "Catch and Release". For I feel this activity diminishes the Grace and Mercy of our Humanity, and sends a message that it is ok to take life for fun. I don't recall being given that right.

...its the "for the sake of sport" I dislike anyway. One thing to hunt and kill an animal for food another to hunt a deer just cause you want its "Rack" on your wall.

Fuzzy Logic: Its not that we have barely evolved more like we de-evolved in the Conciuos (sp) while evolving intellectually since at least way way back man understood he was part of something larger. Now we have the arrogance of we are the only thing on planet with religion and our religion says we own and can kill anything we want and we have an opposable thumb to prove it mentality.

Yes animals kill other animals...usually for food and occationally for defense, sometimes over mateing and very rarely for FUN or their own kind, humans kill for food, in defense and offensivly as well when angered,kill over minor gerivences as well as serious ones, will kill one man over another mans wife and often for Fun. Somehow seems the animals are smarter in the end.

Mankind + Animalkind + Plantkind = Worldkind hehe. We all share the same home and of all 3 alot of times think we (mankind) are the infection or pest as we above all others destry the planet for all kinds. I may sound weird but can't help but fear what we have done and continue to do to the Earth that houses us all.

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals?

Probably a Pisces...working for scale.

Hey now, I said there was a diffrence tween hunting to eat and sports hunting. All need to eat but to kill for the simple joy of killing is a bit diffrent in my book. How is that "going against ones own race"?Im not sure but think I did learn in biology...way way WAY back in HS, that there was only one other creature that does kill for sport besides man. Food=Yes, For fun=Cruel

Doesnt change the fact that man is much more distructive to the world than any other creature on it,hehe.

I never said I was a vegetarian. Please do not mis-quote me. What I am against is using animals for 'entertainment' whether harmful or not. All carnivores/omnivores eat other animals for food, it's the way nature designed the animal to function (including humans).

All inhabitants of this planet have a right to dignity and 'humane' (odd word...) treatment. Each should be treated with respect. It's strange how man is the cruellest animal on Earth but yet is the only one with an ability to show compassion and kindness. It's a pity some make the wrong choice. Some are more evolved than others it would seem.

Try to keep religion to the other thread - but that's another example of primitive human behavior. It falls in that area between becoming sentient and discovering identity. I find religious statement hilarious but also disturbing - it displays an inability to grasp reality.

i eat what i catch with a pole. i eat what i shoot with a gun ( including snakes). i'm strenuously opposed to every form of gratuitous cruelty in the world, whether it's aimed at animals or humans. i've found that i can convey that conviction to others without using pomposity and condescension as my media of communication.

As being a sport fisherman for the latest 35 years, I am very curious about that. Does any one have any link to a news regarding that?

btw, I don't kill a fish during the last 15 years, just catch and release them.

It was on CNN's ticker last night. I looked on there site but could not find it. But I saw it last night on the TV.