Erin Wing

It's sort of like they're making their own rules that are going to best serve them.

In this facility, there were at least 25,000 to 100,000 fish per tank.

And

They were swimming in circles constantly, day after day, all day long.

There were fish who were dying due to fungal infections, and then fish who were

afflicted with fungus infections who ended up being killed by the workers.

Or even in some cases against metal poles.

And in one case there was a worker who slammed a fish against a metal pole and then proceeded to stomp on the fish when they were unsuccessful in killing the fish by slamming them against the pole.

On my last day of the investigation, I spoke with the manager of the facility and he saw me looking into a bin that was filled with fish who had been discarded and they were slowly suffocating to death.

And he approached me and he just happened to say,

Yeah, it's really rough the way that we kill them.

It used to bum me out.

But over the years, you kind of get desensitized.

I think these workers, they spend...

all day, all day, every day with these animals.

I think they know that the animals can feel pain, but there isn't space for them to connect with the animals by way of being empathetic toward them or compassionate.

There's no room for that in fish farming.

I don't think