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Stop eating fish. The fishing industry is destroying the oceans.
by marcus_holmes 1y ago
Stop eating fish. The fishing industry is destroying the oceans.
- oporquinho94 1y agoIndividual actions won’t change the system, you need collective organised action
- marcus_holmes 1y agoBe the change you want to see in the world. You can only control your actions. Also taking the action of starting to organise some collective action is a good thing. But don't continue eating fish until everyone else agrees not to, because that becomes self-defeating.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoExactly. The tragedy of the commons makes it so that individual action of eating the fish is the most rational move. Mobilizing people to act irrationally is challenging unless they are forced to do it by law.
- Nasrudith 1y agoThat is a complete paradox because you not only cannot have collective organized action without individual ones but the previous is entirely composed of the latter.
- taskforcegemini 1y agowhy not both, if the point for both is to reach the same goal?
- yesfitz 1y agoThis is organizing. We're inviting you to join the collective of people who don't eat fish. Our main activity is finding and encouraging others to not eat fish. If you'd like to organize more collective action, we will probably be interested! But the baseline is actually inaction. First, do no harm.
- vonunov 1y agoBesides, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04272-1#Sec3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04272-1#Sec3 >For rainbow trout, an estimated 10 (1.9–21.7) minutes of moderate to extreme pain (Hurtful, Disabling and Excruciating pain combined) are endured by each trout due to air asphyxia (Fig. 1).
- fcpk 1y agoand that's why things like ikejime are needed. It instantly kills the fish and destroys its nervous system in the same way we do for cattle. It's absolutely unbelievable that it is not a common practice. And it also extends the quality of the fish and the duration for conservation. I am a freshwater fisherman myself, and I do it on any fish I intend to keep, and release them very quickly otherwise.
- t0bia_s 1y agoI like fishes. Fishes are healthy and main source of Omega-3 fatty acid for many. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid Be aware of pharma propaganda that for sure support any narrations that would make benefit for them, like making any kind of natural sources good for humans as threat, like sunshine or.. Fishes?
- marcus_holmes 1y agoCatching your own fish, and eating that, is fine. Even if everyone who could do that, caught the fish they intended to eat, the oceans would be fine. It's the massive industrial trawlers that scoop up entire ecosystems that we need to stop.
- t0bia_s 1y agoAre you able to build your home? Or smartphone as well? Companies usually offer products that are much cheaper to make than individuals would make individually. Which mean lower source consumption. True question is balance between quality and quantity. But economically it is broken when fiat money does not store value and governments decided to make own citizens to live on debts.