“Fishing, a butcher’s shop!” Local groups mobilize in Montpellier on the occasion of World End Fishing Day

Des poissons pris dans un filet et du faux sang répandu sur le sol pour dénoncer “une boucherie”. MIDI LIBRE – G. ITALIANO

Local groups Animal Save Movement (Sète branch), Ethics & animals L214 and Anonymous for the voiceless organized an action, as usual, very visual, on the occasion of the 8th World Day to End Fishing and Aquaculture.

Around thirty activists from the local groups Animal save movement (Sète branch), Ethics & animals L214 and Anonymous for the voiceless gathered on the Place de la Comédie this Saturday morning on the occasion of the 8th World Day to End Fishing and Aquaculture, to denounce the carnage:  "a butcher's shop !".

Aligned, sign in hand where one can read slogans such as "Fishing, a butcher's shop", &quot ;It's not because we can't hear them that they don't shout", or &quot ;Fish : real victims of speciesism", activists came in fisherman's outfits to loudly assert (but in a muted manner) their vegan or vegan food practice, excluding any product from  rsquo;animal origin. And therefore all flesh from the sea.

Fish hanging on the fishing net

From the fishing net that they stretch, where fake fish are hooked, a bloody juice flows that turns the tile red. Which arouses the curiosity of passers-by: "I love fish", smiles a lady freshly out of a butcher's shop. A couple expresses the risks of a drastic reduction in their "social life" s'he had to give up meat and fish. "No more meals with friends, no more going out to restaurants. We select, we eat little but quality, he justifies himself.

Caty, an activist from Sète, remains patient in the face of sometimes futile comments, offering her vegan terrines with seaweed, her vegetable tarama and other ersatz potted tuna, to offer a alternative and try to bluff the public. "It needs a click. Mine came to me through awareness of animal abuse, such as the rape of cows by insemination. It’s a journey that can take time, but mentalities are changing. Personally, I get a liberation, a fullness from it.

"By consuming fish, we condemn them to a violent death or a life of misery when they are farmed. Fish can die for 4 hours. The agony lasts 25 to 60 minutes in the event of evisceration, denounces an activist from L214. Enough to file the sharpest teeth of the sea…