{"id":3799,"date":"2009-09-25T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2009-09-25T00:16:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:16:29","slug":"dont-catch-torture-or-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/dont-catch-torture-or-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Catch, Torture or Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3800\" title=\"1176501_little_fish\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1176501_little_fish.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"1176501_little_fish\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Pol:<\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\"> <\/span><\/span>Does your brother eat what he fishes?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Jat:<\/span> Yup.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> Pol: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">E<\/span>weeh! He should just catch and release. I do that. I think it\u2019s too cruel to eat what you fish.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Yah:<\/span> Huh? Catch and release isn\u2019t kind either.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> Pol: <\/span>True, but at least it won&#8217;t have to die.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Jat:<\/span> Did you cut away the string or release the fish from the hook?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\"> Pol:<\/span> Cut the string.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Yah:<\/span> What? Thanks to you, the poor fish will probably die a slow painful death!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> Jat: <\/span>Who&#8217;s more evil? The one who fishes to eat or the one who catches and releases with the hook still on?!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Yah:<\/span> Honestly, I see no good in either. Each has different degree of evil involved. Please be more considerate and compassionate, even if it&#8217;s towards a small animal. Please quit fishing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">A Fishing Buddhist?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/a-fishing-buddhist\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/a-fishing-buddhist<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pol: Does your brother eat what he fishes? Jat: Yup. Pol: Eweeh! He should just catch and release. I do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74],"tags":[131,57],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","category-veganism","tag-animal-welfare","tag-compassion","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}