JOE MONGA

me and my neighbor were talking about setting up a 75 gallon tank with cichlids then he says "look at it this way if a oscar or jack dies we could it him cause theyre going to get big and i could grill it hahah" so, can u eat large oscar or jack if his on the berg of dying or would i be poisoning my self because we all add chemicals to the tank to get reid of the bad stuff. so can i or not?

Chief_waterchanger

If the fish is dying there is a reason... do you want to introduce that to your body? If the cow begins to die of some illness are you still going to eat the meat?

It would be insanely unintelligent to eat any animal that died prematurely or of old age, unless you are trying to potentially win a Darwin Award.

By the way an oscar and jack dempsey probably will not survive together long enough to be big enough to eat. They tend to kill one another.

Shawnie

im wondering why you want to eat a fish before you even have it? hmmm

Amnagrla

lol this post made me laugh... a lot.

Lucy

It made me want to
There's something not right about eating a pet.

Thank you CWC for a reasonable explanation other than the ew factor.

Shawnie

maybe its a joke?? or darn who knows...still cant believe it was asked

Salvatore

Would You Eat Your Dog If It Was Hit By A Car And Died?? That Is A Sick Question To Ask!!!!

Angela_96

On a serioius note, on most of the labels of the chemicals that you put in your tank it says not for human consumption, and something along the line of the fish you use this on is not for human consumption.

I also agree w/ CWC.

JOE MONGA

well i asked the question because how hasnt ate fish and some fish and shell fish are farm raised in HUGE ponds so they use chemicals to have there water good right.

Trio123

the oscar at work bites me all the time, I've been wanting to bite him back but I guess I shouldn't

lol

ps the chemicals used in the aquaculture of fish for human consumption is different than those for ornamental purpose, in the USA the chemicals used for agricultural animals have to be approved by the usda...

Angela_96

actually the farm raised fish come from ponds that like the ponds in our backyards (like mine in the cowfeild, not a Koi pond) take care of themselves naturally w/o chemicals. its just stocked fish into ponds

not to mention, any chemical introduced into a pond where fish meant for human consumption has to be approved through the FDA, so if any chemicals are used they are different than those we use in our tanks.

Trio123

oh duh I guess that would be the fda not the usda...

Barbrella

A lot of fish we keep as pets are used for food in their native countries, and Oscars are one of those, although they aren't farmed or raised as food.

Eating one's pets is frowned upon on this continent.

Angela_96

you would think that the usda had something to do w/ it also.

Angela_96

just as when I got attacked by a cat when I was 8 and had stiches up my arm, my family DOC was Koren and he told my mom she should fry the cat up for dinner "cats were good"... he wasn't kidding not only that they all wanted revenge on the stray cat that attacked me, all I was doing was putting food out for a stray and he attacked me (meat was hanging out of my arm) they did kill the cat because of the whole "rabies" issue to test it... (honestly this guy was the best family/kid doc I have ever seen and if I still lived back home I would take my children to him, he had made great friends w/ my parents because I grew up w/ his child and was good friends w/ him)

and there are countries that do not eat cattle, and frown upon us for eating them.

Amnagrla

lol This wins my "Amanda's Favorite Thread of the Week"... I love that we are exploring every aspect of this.

Joe, feel free to pipe back up here!!

MY impression is that he wasn't literally planning on getting some pets and (especially and specifically an oscar or jack d) and raising them as pets and then eating them! I feel like he was just asking if it's possible.

Lucy

Granted, other cultures eat cat and dog, but I believe the difference is they don't take ole Fido or Fluffy and cook em up when they get sick or die of old age.
I could be wrong.

Cattle raised for food are rarely treated as pets.

jdhef

I knew a guy who had lived out west for awhile. He had bought a calf that he was going to raise to adulthood, then slaughter for meat.

Well his plans all went down the drain after his he, his wife and kids couldn't bring themselves to kill good ole Bessey and eat her.

John

Salvatore

Has anyone ever seen Charlet's Webb??

jdhef

I'm giving away my age, but I saw the animated version of Charlotte's Web back in the '70's as well as the live action version from a couple of years ago.

I also read the book when I was a kid.

John

sirdarksol

I am actually troubled by America's duality regarding eating animals.
Dennis Leary has it right when he says we only want to save the cute animals.

However, I definitely wouldn't want to eat a fish that had just died in a tank. It's not the chemicals. In my opinion, if it's good enough for my pets, it had better be good enough for me. It's the fact that a fish that died early has died for a reason, as was said early in the thread, while a fish that died of old age is likely to have its own problems.

JOE MONGA

lol This wins my "Amanda's Favorite Thread of the Week"... I love that we are exploring every aspect of this.

Joe, feel free to pipe back up here!!

MY impression is that he wasn't literally planning on getting some pets and (especially and specifically an oscar or jack d) and raising them as pets and then eating them! I feel like he was just asking if it's possible.

thank you i was just wondering if it was possible i love my fish but then again it wouldnt be a bad idea looking at how the economy is going own the drain u could have a good supply of fish sticks in your tank LOL

Amnagrla

hahahahaha

Angela_96

That whole bad economy thing is why we should all learn how to raise gardens, and our men learn how to hunt... (well at least I know we will be eating in our house)

sirdarksol

Why just men?

Hunting is no longer a viable method of sustaining a population. We've grown larger than the world can sustain in this way. That's why we have to "cheat" nature by farming, which allows us to carefully control conditions and grow more prey animals than a given area would normally be capable of supporting.

I do garden. I only have a few veggies growing right now, but I plan to expand this each year until I can make it a summer without needing to buy veggies.

Fishies-for-me

had a pair of geese one time..was going to raise the chicks for the freezer. Ummm even tho the male goose was so nasty he would bite anyone he could I couldnt do that...lol gave them away...I did eat the chicken eggs we had but other than that the chickens were also given away when we no longer wanted or could keep them...no home raised meat for me thanks...lol

Lucy

I confess, as a kid, I did eat a pig that I had played with and had a name.
It wasn't until after we had eaten that I found out though.

COBettaCouple

I hope the economy doesn't get so bad that we have to eat our pets. If so, I'm getting a pet buffalo.

Chief_waterchanger

People talks about the bad economy, and I won't go too far being that it is kinda a side-track, but the economy ain't really that bad right now. It is still growing, just a bit slower than in previous years. It'll turn around just fine.

I am all for eatting animals and I even plan to in the next year or two get a chicken coop built and stock it with laying and roosting hens. The eggs will be eatten and hopefully the chickens will multiply enough to have home-grown rotisserie chickens each year. I wouldn't mind learning to hunt for meat also, and honestly, if our neighbors hadn't dammed up the creek that fed into our pond (causing it to dry out) we would have it stocked with fish that we could catch anytime we wanted them for dinner.. Animals, in my opinion, are part of the food chain and if I am hungry then I go to the food chain for sustinance (whether that be veggies or animals.)

As my point seems to have been understood I will leave it with just repeating, "As long as the animal is slaughtered while showing no signs of illness I would probably atleast try to consume it."

Allie