whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
wrote
Tim Lamb wrote

The fishing club here have an inbuilt hatred of Eastern Europeans
based on the belief that they take caught fish to eat.

I would have thought that was the point of fishing!

In practice most prefer to torture the fish by sticking
a barbed hook in their mouth, yanking them out of
the water, putting their foot on them while getting
the hook out and then putting them back in the water.

There's no evidence fish feel pain

Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something.

Wonder why those who hate seeing foxes chased
by a horde of hooray henrys on horses with dogs
dont give a damn about the torture of fish.

Most do, but they can't prove that the fish feel pain

Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something.

which makes it difficult to ban fishing.

Even sillier than you usually manage, and thats saying something.