Slaughter

There are no humane-slaughter regulations for fish despite the fact that billions of fish are slaughtered every year. The crude methods used to kill fish for human consumption are truly ghastly. Cutting their gills, beating them with bats, suffocating them, or freezing them—all these slaughter practices are legal and completely unregulated. If the victims were dogs, cats, cows, or pigs instead of fish, fishers could be charged with felony cruelty to animals. The best way to put an end to cruelty to fish is to stop eating them.