Tattooed Molly (should be flogging the people doing it)

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I must ask a question though. Why do people feel the need to quantify or qualify something by comparing it to something else. To be very honest there are much worse things in this world. This however happens to be the topic at hand. I'm not calling for people to jump and shout but I do like to let people know whats happening. I've seen many inked fish, I have never seen a tattooed one personally. I remember the first time I saw pink skirts when I was like 11 years old. I had no idea and bought several because I thought they looked cool. Thats what kids do.

They do this by catching the fish after tank raising them to sellable size and placing them in wet towel or paper towel.. they hold the towel flat and jeb the design they'd like into the skin of the fish with a fairly large type needle. They then tos the fish into a medication tank to heal the wounds as fast as possible to expedite ship time. These fish are tattooed over their entire body and the mortallity rate is severe. It's no less than killing a cat or dog in whatever cruel manner you choose. I am a hunter and fisherman so no need to start sparking arguements about hunting cruelty or fishing cruelty either. This is a breeder being cruel to a fish to improve their profit line and clain a niche in the market by marketing to children. If the kid knew he had to kill 3 fish to dye 10 the kid wouldn't be so happy.

I don't qualify this at all.. it's simply cruelty.. theres no need for it.. the UK has it right.. it's illegal to dye a fish to improve it's value in the UK.. sadly however it's not illegal to import dyed fish..
 
I understand exactly where you are coming from, and i was not trying to stir up conflict in the least, just this thread struck my memory of the horrific videos i have seen of the cats and dogs that get brutally skinned and boiled alive for pure profit and entertainment. I guess i tried to overshadow the main point of this thread, and for that i am sorry.
 
No offense taken. All cruelty is wrong. Just act locally as much as possible. Post your thoughts and opinions in threads like these.. Educate the public. If enough people just subscribe to that kind of simple thinking then things can change. It's when we refuse to act because the issue seems too big for us to make an impact alone that we lose. Each one of us has a voice.. if we all use it then we together can make a change. It's sad that it's not considered cruelty by the law here in america and fish are not garnered the same rights as other pets. I understand fish are short lived and not considered a pet like a cat and dog by many and thats the reason it's that way but still... theres no reason for it besides profit. it's just wrong to profit from things like that.

And as for flogging.. it was just a pun.. Flogging Molly.. some of you will know.. the rest will assume I meant to truly beat their heads in.. I would just like to find a way for the united state to get in on the action and stop fish tattooing and dyeing for profit.
 
i say someone should inject dye into these breeders with dirty, and dull hypodermic needles like they do to the fish
 
Well, I actually have new information on how tattooing is done in fish. Not a needle but just as sick. The following is quoted from http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=850

"The techniques being used to tattoo the fish in Hong Kong could be similar to those already in use by fisheries scientists to monitor the movements of wild fish.
The technology dates back to 1975, when it was first used on catfishes. Later work by Lee Blankenship and Dan Thompson of Washington Department of Fisheries in 1993 investigated the use of Coumarin Dye (CD) lasers for tagging wild salmonids.
Blankenship and Thompson found that the initial blasts from CD lasers tore away scales and the epidermis down to the surface of a layer of tissue called the stratum compactum.
Their research suggests that acoustic damage tears away tissues from the margins of the hole, rather than burning the area as some other lasers do.
The end result is that pigment cells above the stratum compactum are removed, effectively bleaching the area, and allowing it to be dyed using the pigment in the lasing medium.
When used on salmon, the damage from a CD laser can last up to five weeks. Blankenship and Thompson said:
"The epidermis recovers from the laser blast quickly. It closed within a week over all but the very largest injuries, which are completely re-epithelialised a few days later. The upper layers of the epidermis remain open textured for some time as a function of the underlying connective tissue injury, but return to normal morphology after about five weeks."
Fish with darker colouration need 4-5 blasts from the laser to bleach their melanophore pigment cells, which causes massive blistering beneath the stratum compactum."
 
Rivermud;1421697; said:
I must ask a question though. Why do people feel the need to quantify or qualify something by comparing it to something else.
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Because fish aren't recognized under the law (in most countries) as being equal to other animals... therefore cruelty is legal.

Comparing it to the mistreatment of a dog or cat makes others realize that you can't really draw the line between one animal (or more appropriately, pet) and another. Pain for the sake of aesthetics shouldn't be imposed on animals, yet people don't see fish as animals.

Hence, the 'fish don't feel pain' myth.
 
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