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Phil Hackett
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Peta again I know, its been done to death!
Well this one hasn’t!
On Friday the 3/8/01 The Manchester Evening News carried a pro Peta article, the author was Andrew Grimes.
In his pernicious piece he states in relation to the dog and hook poster and fish feeling pain-
“ Zoologically it is a fair question. There have been quite recent scientific tests carried out on fish to find out if they feel pain, and the unsurprising and worrying answer is yes, they definitely do. Many angler know this instinctively, which is why they keep a priest in their kitbox. Its not usual kind of priest – no point in saying the last rights over a dying perch. This priest is a little wooden hammer to put the gasping fish out of its misery.”
“For this reason, I’m inclined to agree with Carr that an angler who unhooks and throws it back in the water, probable to be caught three or four times again, is committing unnecessary cruelty, whether he intends to or not.”
He then goes on to attempt to add balance by stating Equally barmy is her campaign to outlaw the world’s fishing industry, after pointing out that she is a vegan.
Now these so called scientific tests he referrers to, where did he get this info from? I can not say at the moment but can make an educated guess - Peta’s press release, I bet.
I’ll quiz him some time today about it, that for sure!
The tests they quote, were done by passing an electric current through the fish, if memory serves me right, and checking whether there was a response.
Anything that gets an electric current passed thought it, will have a muscle reaction. That frankly proves jack shit, other that the body reacts to electrical stimulus.
BRONO PLEASE POST WHAT YOU HAVE IN THIS REGARD.
NOW TO DATE THE EVENING NEWS HAS GOT AWAY WITH THIS CRAP. SO THEY THINK! HOWEVER THEY HAVE A WEB SITE www.manchesteronline.co.uk IT HAS AN ONLINE LETTERS PAGE (DON’T KNOW WHETHER THEY GO DIRECT OR ARE PUT ON BY THE WEB MASTER OR NOT?) THEY ALSO HAVE A CONTACT US AND FEEDBACK ON THE SITE. REMEMBER WE DID FOR C4 BY THE NET, SO LETS DO FOR THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THE SAME WAY!
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO GUYS AND GIRLS!
Well this one hasn’t!
On Friday the 3/8/01 The Manchester Evening News carried a pro Peta article, the author was Andrew Grimes.
In his pernicious piece he states in relation to the dog and hook poster and fish feeling pain-
“ Zoologically it is a fair question. There have been quite recent scientific tests carried out on fish to find out if they feel pain, and the unsurprising and worrying answer is yes, they definitely do. Many angler know this instinctively, which is why they keep a priest in their kitbox. Its not usual kind of priest – no point in saying the last rights over a dying perch. This priest is a little wooden hammer to put the gasping fish out of its misery.”
“For this reason, I’m inclined to agree with Carr that an angler who unhooks and throws it back in the water, probable to be caught three or four times again, is committing unnecessary cruelty, whether he intends to or not.”
He then goes on to attempt to add balance by stating Equally barmy is her campaign to outlaw the world’s fishing industry, after pointing out that she is a vegan.
Now these so called scientific tests he referrers to, where did he get this info from? I can not say at the moment but can make an educated guess - Peta’s press release, I bet.
I’ll quiz him some time today about it, that for sure!
The tests they quote, were done by passing an electric current through the fish, if memory serves me right, and checking whether there was a response.
Anything that gets an electric current passed thought it, will have a muscle reaction. That frankly proves jack shit, other that the body reacts to electrical stimulus.
BRONO PLEASE POST WHAT YOU HAVE IN THIS REGARD.
NOW TO DATE THE EVENING NEWS HAS GOT AWAY WITH THIS CRAP. SO THEY THINK! HOWEVER THEY HAVE A WEB SITE www.manchesteronline.co.uk IT HAS AN ONLINE LETTERS PAGE (DON’T KNOW WHETHER THEY GO DIRECT OR ARE PUT ON BY THE WEB MASTER OR NOT?) THEY ALSO HAVE A CONTACT US AND FEEDBACK ON THE SITE. REMEMBER WE DID FOR C4 BY THE NET, SO LETS DO FOR THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THE SAME WAY!
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO GUYS AND GIRLS!