Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 16
th, 2013 at 8:34pm:
Fish stocks along the Eastern coast have been decimated because freediver and his Vietnamese mates go drift-netting after dark with nets more than a mile long. That's after they've run out of dynamite.
I don't know whether FD uses dynamite or is Vietnamese, but I've never been a fan of fishing. It is a very cruel recreational sport and together with commercial fishing - our fish stocks are being depleted rapidly to keep up with the demand. Dugongs, turtles, dolphins etc. are all scooped up in the nets and left to die slowly.
Fish, sea mammals and crustaceans seem to be the food trend today. They're being boiled alive and slurped up by every man and his dog.
Our oceans are in a very sorry state and one day there will be nothing left to feed the masses.
Still FD is very much against factory farming and would probably advocate that we all become hunters because it is less cruel. There is truth in that to a degree, but if it came down to having us all cull our own meat - it would probably be even more cruel and chaotic. It couldn't be regulated.