A growing body of research that suggests fish feel pain is sparking an effort to improve the treatment of farm-raised fish that end up on American dinner plates.
Shortly before 7:45 a.m., the slaughterhouse workers trudged inside the nondescript building at the end of a dirt road and headed to what they called the “kill floor.” There, when no one was looking, one of them would flip on a hidden camera and record the animals writhing on a conveyor belt.
Image: Fish and a turtle in a bucket as seen in footage captured by an animal rights group at a Mississippi catfish farm.More than 50 years ago, the U.S. installed legal guardrails to reduce the suffering of commercially-slaughtered animals like pigs and cows and goats. The laws in Mississippi do not exclude fish, according to legal experts. But getting a local prosecutor to crack down on a place for alleged fish abuse is another matter.
“But if they wanted to try it,” Favre added after reviewing the Mississippi laws, “they’d definitely have the legal basis.”Dr. Lynne Sneddon, a biologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, has been studying whether fish feel pain for more than two decades. Her research began with some basic questions.“The answer is yes,” she said in an interview. “Is that information conveyed to the brain? It is indeed.
In 2013, the American Veterinary Medical Association published new guidelines for the euthanasia of animals, which referenced the research showing that fish feel pain. In an even more unusual case, a North Carolina man was arrested on animal cruelty charges in 2019 after he allegedly left behind his fish when he was evicted. The Oscar fish had developed a parasitic disease caused by malnutrition and poor water quality.
“The language within the chapter is not ambiguous or unclear and therefore must be read as written to apply to fish and turtles,” she wrote in the memo.“There is no authority in Mississippi for what you are proposing to do under those two statues,” Donaldson wrote in an email to an Animal Equality representative. “In addition my wife and I both hunt and fish and eat what we kill as do a majority of the people in this state. I have much more to do as a prosecutor than to waste my time with this.
But not all of the fish are knocked out before their heads are chopped off, according to the undercover video footage provided by Animal Equality. Fish are also sometimes left on the conveyor system for more than 30 minutes – out of water – when workers go on breaks, the group alleges. James noted that farms like Simmons’ keep the catfish in water right up until they’re incapacitated by stunning devices.
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