One crazy question. To Eat or not To Eat?

[crazy clowntang]

ornamental fish are not meant to be eaten. that's it.unless you're that desperate.

I am not saying eat the fish for the fun of it. Read the question first.

 

[cassharper]

The reason I couldnt do that is I would be afraid/grossed out by the living conditions of the pacu. I dont have anything against eating fish, just not fish that have been raised in conditions like fish farms or worse. Really all commercially produced meat is nasty. If you saw where your poultry, meat, and fish you ate came from, you would have a hard time eating it.

Too bad those nasty moral dilemmas don't get into the meat

I've heard great things about conch, I'd love to try that one day, however I imagine it probably is prepared much better in a place like the Bahamas as opposed to somewhere up here in the Mid-Atlantic.

I think I'd try any type of meat and such, but I'm fairly certain that I'd shy away from any type of insects, spiders, etc. The crunch and just knowing it was a bug would probably kick in my gag reflex.

Conch is delicious. There's a big conch farm on grand turk (bahamas) and chances are if you eat conch in the US it was flash frozen on the farm and shipped out. I've had conch from grand turk fresh and frozen in america, hard to tell a difference.

 

[koop171]

I would eat a fish that I owned. I mean why not. assuming I did more looking into the possible bad health effects. and it wasn't great or really anything why not. I mean what you going to do with that big pacu or cat that you don't have room in the freezer for till the garbage man comes. Not all of us want skeletons.

 

[dogofwar]

I keep tilapia. I eat tilapia. No problems for me...

 

[srikamaraja]

The bigger dilemma to me is pet crawdads. I see a big six inch procambarus, and I can hear water boiling.

(Except for Yabbies. I think they could eat me, if they had the mind)

 

[mitch890]

I once saw an aquarium housing 1 largemouth bass.. although it was cool to see the 5 pounder devour a mouse in an instant.... I thought to myself would I eat a fish that I saw eat a mouse... and then it dawned on me I probably have!!!!

 

[Fishes33]

I might have a bit of trouble eating fish that I had kpet as a pet. Reminds me of the simpsons episode with the pig. I've killed and eating literally thousands of fish as an Alaskan fishing guide, but never a fish I kept in a tank. Guess it would be a bit like shooting my own horse and eating it.

You can eat horse in Japan!

 

[matt.beyer]

Go as natural as possible!

 

[crazy clowntang]

I would eat a fish that I owned. I mean why not. assuming I did more looking into the possible bad health effects. and it wasn't great or really anything why not. I mean what you going to do with that big pacu or cat that you don't have room in the freezer for till the garbage man comes. Not all of us want skeletons.

That is the point of the conversation, what are you going to do with a huge fish?

The only thing I would worry about is the chemicals that might be in the fishes body. All dechlorinators say to be used on ornamental fish only, not on fish that will be eaten.

 

[falloutdead]

Ive always wondered if my pleco would taste like **** hahaha