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 Do fish hurt?5 comments
23 May 2006 @ 12:00

"Soup and fish explain half the emotions of life."
Sydney Smith

Do fish hurt.... when thrashing
in sunlight, hook deep mouth gut
spinning scales like sequins or
smashed on rock, sand particles
abrazing flesh, blood gills wide
snapping under thumb and mesh
unbelieving eyes unfrowning
hiding feeling, numb, no nerve?

(Jeff Starrs)

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23 May 2006 @ 15:01 by judih : fish hurt
i feel fish hurt
i see eyeballs unstared
straight into hurt
lost at sea
on land
on plate
fish hurt, hurts me
i swim fish hurt through daily specials
i choose my own fish hurt from large barbecue tanks
i glug fish hurt and gill fish hurt
i fish hurt for thee
we
fish
hurt
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:0( oh yes...

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& a big thank you for bringing this fish(ue) to light  

23 May 2006 @ 18:57 by jmarc : Do Fish Hurt?
1. Dispatch them quickly if you must. Don't fish for sport alone. Be prepared to eat what you catch. Catch only what you can eat.

Do Fish Hurt?
2.Yes they can. They can hurt alot. Eat only the small ones. LINK

Do fish Hurt?
3. Yes they do. And they don't care. LINK

Do Fish Hurt?
4. A filet of striped bass or cod or haddock tastes so good, it melts away all guilt.  

23 May 2006 @ 18:59 by vaxen : In general,
no, but then...
They just beg to be eaten so?
Just so...  

23 May 2006 @ 23:58 by martha : In general,
YES

Or are we the one's hurt
seeing their bodies thrashing
sand covering shiny scales
Mouths gapping, eyes bulging
longing to go free....

(Mr. Morris...salmon lover)  

24 May 2006 @ 09:20 by ashanti : Yep
Fish hurt.  

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