News — Veganism

Is fishing ethical? Being ethical means acting humanely towards others. Therefore capturing, killing and eating fish against their basic desire to live—from commercial practices to casual recreational anglers is considered immoral and unethical. However, proving the sentience of aquatic animals, in addition to the populations who need to eat fish to survive, adds endless shades of grey to this answer. With up to 2.7 trillion wild-caught fish and 14.8 million tonnes of farmed fish harvested for human consumption each year, the concerns of sustainability, slave labour, and public health are growing, and rightly so! What’s troubling is that most of...