Kenny Torella

We can only really attest to our own individual consciousness.

But I think, you know, few doubt that pigs and chickens on factory farms can consciously feel pain.

That is a kind of an extreme minority view.

And at some point, I think we have to extend that benefit of the doubt to fish.

And there's a lot of evidence as to why we should.

All right, now that we know that fish feel pain, I want you to tell me what you learned about mistreatment on farms.

What exactly is happening?

People who study and try to agitate against fish farming liken them to underwater factory farms, where you see a lot of the same problems on factory farms on land being replicated in aquaculture.

a lot of farming industries, including the fish industry, they'll set their own industry standards.

But I talked to one woman named Erin Wing, who has spent her career investigating factory farms, and she is really skeptical of these industry standards.

She worked undercover at a salmon hatchery in Maine, and this is where the fish are born and raised for the first year or so of their life until they're put out into those floating cages in the ocean.

The hatchery she worked at in 2019 is owned by Cook Aquaculture, which is one of the world's biggest seafood companies.

And while working there for a few months, she witnessed really terrible treatment.

Just huge numbers of fish in tiny tanks, diseases that were eating away at the fish.

fish being euthanized by being repeatedly slammed against the sides of tanks.

And then you also have breeding issues.

So for example, on land, you know, chickens have been bred to grow really big, really fast, basically as a way to get more meat out of each animal.

But this has caused a number of health issues.

And you see the exact same thing being replicated on fish farms.

I really like fish.