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Fish have heart too.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨psy32nd@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Strawman.

    What people are justifiably concerned about is pollution causing death and disease. Fuck off with this hYpOcRiSy bullshit

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    • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guarantee the person who made this is a vegan.

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      • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’d hope so, the more the better for the planet

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    • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Dazza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        OP is minimizing an actually very important issue. They may as well work for an oil company (and they very well might)

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      • smotherlove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why?

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know it’s a meme, but is anyone actually sad for the fish? I thought we were terrified about what was happening to our food. If someone autopsied a downed cow and a bunch of toxic plastic shit spilled from their stomachs, we aren’t thinking “poor cow ate all that plastic and died.” We’re worried about our food supply.

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    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lots of people are sad for the fish, but they’re usually vegan

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      • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sad for the fish because if they’re gone I can’t eat them.

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      • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sure a lion is gonna feel really bad for a human if they choke on plastic instead of getting to feed a lion.

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    • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sad for the fish. Imaging being forced into a massive pile of others just like you while being crushed by the weight of them and suffocating to death. It’s fucked up

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      • anonymouse@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That has more to do with farming practices though, not plastic pollution.

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      • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Mmmmm smoked kippers. 🤤

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      • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lol OK.

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    • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do have some level of sympathy for the fish but also recognize I’m a little more sympathetic to non-human life than most people. I can’t bring myself to kill insects without a good reason (except ticks and mosquito) not even ants. Whenever my parents would cut down a tree on their property I grieve for the life of the trees lost just because my dad fell off one as a kid and has a subconscious hatred for them now.

      Yes I know I’m wierd but maybe the world needs a few people like me who care a little too much about non-human suffering

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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re not weird bro, you just have empathy. I agree with you

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      • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That might just be the weirdest turnaround. You can’t hurt a fly, but you’re okay with a cow being bolted through the brain because they’re a bit tastier than mock meets?

        Like, you can’t be “sympathetic to animals” if you’re paying an industry that mass slaughters them. Especially when you’re only paying that out of simple preference. I sure hope you don’t find humans tasty, because it sounds like you’ll set aside all of your morals for a yummy lunch?

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      • sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You don’t have to feel bad for cutting grass. That’s grass its entire evolutionary skitch, albeit naturally with being grazed instead of mechanically cut.

        Grass survives cuts extremely well. Most of its mass is below ground. By thriving in areas that are frequently grazed / cut, it outcompetes other plants. Natural meadows without grazers quickly turn into forests. But tree saplings don’t survive being eaten, so whenever there are grazers (or human cuts), grass outcompetes trees.

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    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is sad and gross in a way that’s hard to pin down. I can find nature both beautiful and delicious at the same time.

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  • hahattpro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If a fish die of plastic, you probably eat plastic while eating fish

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    • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t think there is any probably anymore. You are eating plastic no matter what.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Might as well leave the cheese singles wrapped 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then we die of plastic

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  • metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’re not just eating tons per day, we’re eating about 430-ish metric kilotons per day.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, everything just sounds bigger on the metric system though

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      • Evilsmiley@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A metric ton is 40lbs more than a ‘long ton’

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How many per day are replenished then?

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe the latter has something to do with the former. Fish die from plastic; no fish to eat.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This made me cry

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

      Kill a man’s fish with plastic … you don’t feed that fish to him.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    #govegan

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      that doesn’t stop either of the problems.

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      • curious_betsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        easily solves the first one and helps with the second one as discarded fishing nets are a large source of plastic in the ocean

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  • FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dredging nets over the sea bottom, destroying all underwater habitats to squeeze 5% more fish out of the ocean: I sleep

    Cute turtle with its leg stuck in a six-pack ring: real shit

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    • byroon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Both are bad

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      • FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well done

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    • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      vsco girls

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  • bellly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I <3 the micro plastics in my body ✨️✨️

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    • gehrluke@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s like additional electrolytes!

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  • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People here are talking about fishes as our food source but what about fishes as a food source for other aquatic life? Or other animals that feed on those marine life? The effects can be far reaching. So the implication of a fish dying from plastic is a bit complicated than what OP’s making it out to be

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    • Moshpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We can avoid eating animals though

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  • Filthmontane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any fish that dies from plastic is dying from a method that isn’t me eating it. Also, there’s lots of fish I don’t eat that I’m not cool with dying to plastic. I really like the ocean plants that make all the oxygen I breath too.

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    • amzd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dredging for your fish kills most ocean plants.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s weird. I don’t like most fish, but I really don’t have an ethical problem in general with eating fish as long as they were harvested sustainably. Unfortunately, most of the saltwater fish I have enjoyed over the years- shark and swordfish steak, cod, tuna- are not harvested sustainably, so I don’t eat them. That pretty much leaves me with farmed trout and catfish, the only two other fish I like. And I just don’t feel like it’s the same as eating a cow or a chicken. Maybe I don’t have any actual scientific basis to go on, but fish are just so different from us and so much more primitive that it just doesn’t bother me.

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  • Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thats why I’m a pesca-pescatarian, I only eat fish that eat other fish. (joke stolen from Silicon Valley)

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    • alienanimals@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not stolen. It’s an homage!

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  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Comments have been locked due to toxicity. Sorry op.

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  • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love sushi. I’m going to have all you can eat next week and I’m gonna eat so much I shit myself. It’s gonna be fucking awesome.

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  • Dio@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol.

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