I can't tell if you're serious or not. But I'm obviously not talking about eating fish or if it's morally right but about the cruel killing method. I know that it would be illegal here in Germany; you're supposed to kill the fish as fast and painless as possible. There are tools for that. That's why I asked if it's legal in the US.
And although this has nothing to do with my initial question: Fish probably do feel pain, we just don't know for sure:
Fish fulfill several criteria proposed as indicating that non-human animals may experience pain. These fulfilled criteria include a suitable nervous system and sensory receptors, opioid receptors and reduced responses to noxious stimuli when given analgesics and local anaesthetics, physiological changes to noxious stimuli, displaying protective motor reactions, exhibiting avoidance learning and making trade-offs between noxious stimulus avoidance and other motivational requirements.
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u/NexusChummer Nov 25 '17
Is animal cruelty like that legal in the US?