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Catch and release fishing is socially acceptable animal cruelty.
by u/coffeegrounds42 in unpopularopinion

Got a good laugh out of this post on r/unpopularopinion. I have watched videos of people harassing fisherman who are keeping fish to eat, but I never thought people would have an issue with catch and release.

Fishing is animal cruelty. I will concede that point. But in the world that fish inhabit, being caught and quickly released is a 0.5 on a scale of 10 of possible cruel things that can befall a fish. Fish are evolved to live in their exceedingly cruel world.

A small mouths mouth, isn’t that small to the minnow that was just eaten by the small mouth.

I wonder how long it takes for the stomach acid to put dinner out of misery.

Nature is cruel.
A pack of wolves eating their prey while it’s still alive is cruel.
Or worse a golden eagle ripping flesh from an antelopes back while it’s still standing there to traumatized to move.

I tried hit and release last night

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EPG that is a bummer!

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I tried hit and release last night

You got it hanging in the garage yet?

Youbetcha wrote:

You got it hanging in the garage yet?

Why would he hang his truck in the garage?

Generations are born with no idea how easy they have it. None.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I tried hit and release last night

Shoot, not the new one!!

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Why would he hang his truck in the garage?

I meant the deer he hit.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I tried hit and release last night

Looks like the recall worked and it didn’t start on fire.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I tried hit and release last night

Head didn’t even touch the hood. Must’ve been a small one. I’d have released it also.

Those Corona’s slow the old reaction time?

I’ve “discussed” fishing quite a few times with my niece’s vegan husband. Surprisingly it’s much easier to justify catch and eat than catch and release when they paint it as torturing the fish just for your own amusement.
It hasn’t stopped me from being mostly a catch and release fisherman.

In-Fisherman mag ran an article a long time ago about fish feeling pain. The biologists they consulted with did not think fish experience pain, at least as humans define it.

Ron Lindner was absolutely furious that that article got published. He knew what the repercussions would be if the tree huggers rallied around that one. He was a long ways ahead of his time. RIP Ron.

Lol, reddit is a cesspool

KPE- SPOT ON! Along with most of the rest of social media ( except for IDO)