Are convicts edible?

[gunk]

Strange question I know. But I am serious.

I have about 20 juvenile convicts, about an inch long each. I told my girlfriend I'm want to get rid of them but the closest LFS that will take them is over an hour away. She said she wants to eat them. Is that dangerous?

[Sharkman]

uhhhh? that's mean, and what kind of meat would a 1 inch fish have anyway?

[W_Oz]

I'd imagine that any fish is edible so long as the animal is reasonably healthy before its killed. If you're planning on raising these guys for food you might want to switch their diet to something more along the lines of a "wild" fish. If you don't, they might taste bad since everything they eat ultimately influences what kind of flavor they will have.

I know that in other countries it isn't uncommon to keep fish in tanks for consumption by private households, so I don't know that this would be any different apart from the "exotic" nature of the meal.

Pretty much every fish anywhere in the world ends up on the local menu.

EDIT - Well, it isn't really that mean. In the wild a certain number of these juveniles would end up eaten anyway. It may go against the sort of mentality of Americans that pets aren't food (i.e. Dog, Cat, Horse, etc.). But in other parts of the world, they are food. How is keeping and raising a fish for food different than keeping and raising chickens or cows for the same end? It isn't like Foster Farms pops out adult ready to eat chickens from a factory.

[smaug]

As long as you have not used ANY fish meds at all,they would be edible.A little trick I used to do with small panfish is to scale ,behead and gut them then throw them in a blender for a few seconds bones and all,mix with cracker crumbs an egg,celery and some lemon juice,voilą ,you can have convict pattys.The bones would be so small and soft as to be unnoticeable.All that being said,eating pets goes a little beyond my comfort zone:c2:

[gunk]

I don't think it's mean. In my opinion it's the most natural way to get rid of the fish aside from giving them away, which isn't really an option for me. My girlfriend likes trying new and exotic foods so it seems like a reasonable solution to my overabundance of convicts.

[smaug]

I don't think it's mean. In my opinion it's the most natural way to get rid of the fish aside from giving them away, which isn't really an option for me. My girlfriend likes trying new and exotic foods so it seems like a reasonable solution to my overabundance of convicts.
By all means,go for it then!Tell us how it tastes.

[justyn725]

Might need some ketchup...just kidding...

[cocoa_pleco]

its possible but if my girlfriend told me that, it would be crazy awkward

[Red]

2 inch convict? haa i would drive in hour and drop them off..... you would get no meat from them at all.. even at 4 inches your wouldnt get anything to even taste

[Lady Hobbs]

Kinda of like eating our dog when we don't want him anymore? Our fish are our pets I thought.

[Red]

^agreed. What would have happen if your parents ate you? o wait you wouldnt have posted this thread.

[james481]

Of course, were the roles reversed, I'm sure the fish would happily eat you... :18:

[Jacko]

Hey, people eat tilapia and keep them, so why not?
Personally, I would give them away, find new homes for them since to me, it would be kinda weird eating the offspring of your pet. To each their own. Personally, I'd either deep fry them after coating them in bisquick and coconut or try Smaug's recipe (sad to say, but that sounds delicious :P) Just don't skimp on the Tarter sauce. ;)

I don't really think it is like eating your dog or cat, since these are juvies and are probably from an adult pet pair, it might be kinda like eating your dog or cat's children though if you see it that way.

[cocoa_pleco]

Kinda of like eating our dog when we don't want him anymore? Our fish are our pets I thought.

"scruffy, youve peed on my carpet for the last time. im gonna eat you" lol

cant see eating pets either

[Kayla-Bug]

"scruffy, youve peed on my carpet for the last time. im gonna eat you" lol

cant see eating pets eitherlmfao. I don't like fish anyways, so i don't see why you would want to eat it!! Fish are friends, not food!!

[country_boy454]

I must say I am not against it or for it but I would rather give them away as they are only 1 inch juvies and like previously stated, wouldn't be much meat on them.

[robnepper]

I wouldn't eat my fish just because I wouldn't eat my fishes food. I did used to work on fish farms though, so there is a slight bias on my part. If I had the room, I would raise trout to eat, so what's the dif? Perhaps people would take even better care of their fish if they were going to eat them, for obvious reasons. I don't see it as a question of ethics or morals, but preference. If, for instance we were to suffer some kind of disaster leading to a shortage of food, the cat would get it for sure. Mainly because I only really like other people's cats. Then the fish. No question.

Having said all of that, there must be better options for exotic culinary experiences other than nasty aquarium fish.

Just my thoughts

[robnepper]

"scruffy, youve peed on my carpet for the last time. im gonna eat you" lol

cant see eating pets either
What da ya say cocoa, should we "throw another Mantis on the barbie"? LOL

[robnepper]

funny thought! In Williams news posts, there is some crazy Danish artis wanting to feed a human convict to goldfish, so why not convict fish to humans just to even out the score???

[cocoa_pleco]

What da ya say cocoa, should we "throw another Mantis on the barbie"? LOL

lol, we could open a mantis grill cart on whyte ave.:hmm3grin2orange:

[ladyoutlaw50]

Kinda of like eating our dog when we don't want him anymore? Our fish are our pets I thought.

I have to agree with you hobbs - -I am finding this thread a bit weird -- maybe I am over tired - not sure --- but I consider all my fish my pets and would never consider eating them!! Just me I guess!!

Good luck!

[sushicat]

that would be really awkard...but anyways mantis shrimp taste amazing!!

[jphonger]

I personally would not eat my own fish... but if somebody else wants to eat theirs, I see it as their own business. if you show up at my house with a net, though, I doubt you will get me to open the door :)

[OscarFan]

im sure they would be fine. I would fry them up in a nice beer batter. maybe grow them a little longer so you get something out of it.

[KingFisher]

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[sushicat]

lololololololololol

[graceluvsplatys]

gotta say, fish are nothin like dogs or cats. fish are ornamental beyond all, while dogs and cats are company.
honestly, if you think eating fish is like eating a freind...... well i agree i;m a vegitarian.

[cocoa_pleco]

im not vegetarian, but i cant see eating something that should be ornamental. if convict babies are a problem i would maybe get rid of/seperate one of them so theres no more babies.

[jphonger]

or put her on the pill and let them have their fun :) (wish I could have done that with my guppies!)

[gunk]

The only reason I had the pair of convicts was because my dad had an Oscar and I was going to feed the babies to him but my dad got rid of it so now I'm left with a tank full of rapidly growing Convicts and no one wants them.

I like watching them a lot and I wish they could stay 1 inch long and peaceful but in a few months they'll be breeding again and getting aggressive and then I'll have some real problems on my hands. I've never had a dog or a cat, just fish and small reptiles when I was young. But I don't think I could compare eating a fish to eating a dog. It's just not the same to me at all.

My girlfriend's family eats a lot of crazy asian food and this really isn't too weird for her. Their meals regularly consist of strange fish, among other things like chicken feet, duck head, large insects, etc. And she's not really trying to get nutrition out of it, she just wants to know what it tastes like and what the texture is like.

Personally I think a Big Mac is way more disgusting than convicts.

[toddnbecka]

A friend who owns an lfs occaisonally gets fish returned that have outgrown their tanks. He had several black pacu the size of dinner plates, sold them for $1 each just to get rid of them. The person who bought them did so for food. I heard they tasted like fish food, since that's what they had been fed for years. So which is worse; eating someone else's former pets, or knowing what fisg food tastes like?

[Holyvision]

Kinda of like eating our dog when we don't want him anymore? Our fish are our pets I thought.


..what if that's backwards...

"We don't want this human as a pet anymore, let's eat him."

[Sounguru]

Oh come on people 4H'ers and FFA'ers eat their pets all the time... If you go to the fair and look at all those cute little cows, pigs, chickens and other various livestock raised by the younger generation, with hours of love and care. You are just looking at a tastier t-bone or Ham since it was well cared for.

I'm tellin you if this cat doesn't leave me alone I'm gonna feed it to something because I know it would taste like Purina Cat Chow and Onrey all mixed up in one meatless pain in the ......

[toddnbecka]

..what if that's backwards...

"We don't want this human as a pet anymore, let's eat him."
I'm just happy to be at the top of the food chain... :c12:

[crackatinny]

Now this thread has really turned me off my kitten'n'puppy kebabs:11:

Sorry, but that is one sick question.

Whoops, gotta go stoke up the barbie, if my Oscar grows any more, he won't fit on the plate!.

In short, leave your poor convicts alone, and go buy a packet of fishsticks.

[cocoa_pleco]

..what if that's backwards...

"We don't want this human as a pet anymore, let's eat him."

lol, that would suck if aliens just flew in and started grilling everyone

[country_boy454]

lol, that would suck if aliens just flew in and started grilling everyone


LOL!!! :19: :hmm3grin2orange:

[tanks4thememories]

MOST of the fish we keep and call "exotic" are considered just plain old fish by the local people in their country of origin. And if someone was fishing for food and caught one of these "Exotic" fish they would most likely eat it just like we would eat a bass or a croppie. Someone already mentioned the two main concerns:
1) Taste - "You are what you eat" and so are fish. Depending on what you fed the fish it might not taste so great.

2) Medications Most of the meds we use in hobby tanks are not FDA approved for aquaculture & Wildlife as fit for human consumption. As in # 1 you are what you eat and if a fish was ever medicated in its lifetime it is not a good idea to eat it. This is a fine line because as you may notice in the aquatic med isle at your LFS; a lot of the meds are basically the stuff doctors used to prescribe to us years ago. The main differences being the dosage & the inert ingredients. Then there are other meds that just plain old aren't used because they are unhealthy for humans.
These laws are basically to protect someone from long term exposure to bad ingredients due to making medicated aquarium raised fish a part of their regular diet. With all of that being said just like the guy at the frat party who eats the goldfish it really shouldn't matter if you only eat a few. Hell you get a lot worse from farm raised non-organic milk, beef and poultry in the US....lol

Otherwise it should be yummy. Let us know what it tastes like if you eat it?:hmm3grin2orange:

[Red]

Yeah but natives dont eat 1 inch fish....... I think this is a bit ridiculous that you are even considering eating 1 inch fish. I could see a big pacu or something but 1 inch? haa

[tanks4thememories]

I'm just happy to be at the top of the food chain... :c12:

As the top of the food chain we enjoy a unique perspective on what and what not to eat. But truly think of it this way. If aliens did come to this planet and they were intelligent enough to travel from where we can not even see, never mind get to.

They would be much more intelligent than us and if we look at history I ask one simple question: What happens when an advanced civilization meets a severely less advanced civilization? Subjugation...lol We would most likely be pets, slaves, food, or exterminated as vermin...lol Our only possible salvation from the dinner plate might be that most creatures will not eat their own kind so if the aliens were humanoid then mabey it would be considered bad "taste"(....lol) to eat us.

Its very funny to me that we send out these radio waves and try to contact other life in the universe because for the above stated reasons I really don't think we want to stick our head up and be noticed right now...lol It would be like a mosquito landing on your arm.

[tanks4thememories]

Yeah but natives dont eat 1 inch fish....... I think this is a bit ridiculous that you are even considering eating 1 inch fish. I could see a big pacu or something but 1 inch? haa

what is smelt? Sardines?

Hey life is not really about how it is because it all depends on how you look at it and that effects how YOU think it is...lol

[Red]

Those are still bigger then one inch
lol
Have you ever seen a 1 inch baby convict? There is nothing to them.

[tanks4thememories]

I personally would not eat my own fish... but if somebody else wants to eat theirs, I see it as their own business. if you show up at my house with a net, though, I doubt you will get me to open the door :)

ROTFL!!!:hmm3grin2orange:

[tanks4thememories]

Those are still bigger then one inch
lol
Have you ever seen a 1 inch baby convict? There is nothing to them.

I prefer less bone personally. But hey if it floats someones boat to have deep fried convict and hush puppies far be it from me discourage the meal..maybe I wouldn't go to any fish frys at their house though..lol

[Red]

I prefer less bone personally. But hey if it floats someones boat to have deep fried convict and hush puppies far be it from me discourage the meal..maybe I wouldn't go to any fish frys at their house though..lol

LOL!
yeah i think i would pass too
haa

[abaigael04]

I don't know- I'd be worried about all the stuff we put in the tanks..

-also there is an old Twilight Zone episode bout aliens coming to earth to eat us....

[OscarFan]

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[KingFisher]

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LMFAO Oscar!
Gunk, given the situation, I feel that you can do whatever you want with these fry. I personally would not eat them, as the aquarium environment could never achieve the same level of cleanliness as in nature. IMO it would be like eating fish caught from a polluted lake. There is also the preservatives in the fish food to consider. Who knows whether these build up in the fish and I'm sure things like Ethoxyquin would not be good for humans to ingest.

[abaigael04]

Yeh- even if you didn't medicate it still seems to me there would be an abbundance of chemcal that I, at least, would not want to ingest.

[tanks4thememories]

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LOL:hmm3grin2orange:

[tanks4thememories]

Yeh- even if you didn't medicate it still seems to me there would be an abbundance of chemcal that I, at least, would not want to ingest.

your tank is cleaner than most lakes.

[Holyvision]

I'm just happy to be at the top of the food chain... :c12:

I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables...


...but I'm not about to eat my OWN fish either; now the catfish in the lake nearby is another story...

[johnpeezy]

its simple really.

get a piranah, feed him the convicts

then fry the piranah up.

problem solved

[DragonGoby]

Why don't you try to sell them? There's lot of people selling fish: ebay or aquabid or I don't know... And you can ask around here for some advice on the "how sending fish"? Perhaps you can give them? Ask around fish forum perhaps?

[toddnbecka]

its simple really.

get a piranah, feed him the convicts

then fry the piranah up.

problem solved

I was just at the lfs yesterday, and saw some tiny (1"<) convicts in the feeder guppy tank. After I commented about the "feeder convicts", the owner was telling me that cichlids, even very small ones, are difficult to use as feeders. We were speculating that it's their attitude/body language that sends a different message than other fish, so they aren't perceived as prey as easily. Not to say that a larger fish won't eat a smaller cichlid, but I have seen convict fry swimming around a tank full of adult red-bellied piranha, even growing up, while guppies and/or rosy reds are eaten rather quickly.

[tanks4thememories]

I was just at the lfs yesterday, and saw some tiny (1"<) convicts in the feeder guppy tank. After I commented about the "feeder convicts", the owner was telling me that cichlids, even very small ones, are difficult to use as feeders. We were speculating that it's their attitude/body language that sends a different message than other fish, so they aren't perceived as prey as easily. Not to say that a larger fish won't eat a smaller cichlid, but I have seen convict fry swimming around a tank full of adult red-bellied piranha, even growing up, while guppies and/or rosy reds are eaten rather quickly.

Good Point!! I have noticed that Convicts don't get attacked so readily in predatory tanks I have owned as well.

[toddnbecka]

One sight I'll never forget was many years ago. I dropped a 1" Malawi zebra into a 55 community tank, There were several angelfish nearly fully grown, certainly large enough to eat the cichlid that was about the size of a neon tetra. The little bugger chased the angelfish around the tank to show them who was in charge. It was so funny to see a fish fleeing from something it could have easily turned around and swallowed.
Sort of like the finger-length electric catfish with the Oscars and huge black pacu, only mbuna don't have a built-in taser. In that case the Oscars and pacu quickly learned to FEAR the little zapper, and stayed as far away form it as they could at all times. Sure, the adult Oscars tried to eat it when they saw this finger-length morsel drop into their tank. The first Oscar tried twice, the second Oscar tried once, the third Oscar never even stepped up, and the pacu was terrified from the beginning. Feeder goldfish didn't last more than a few minutes, even the pacu would get some. But picture 4 huge fish in a 6' tank nervously bunched together and swimming around the opposite side of wherever the 2-3" catfish was, moving when it did, always keeping the maximum possible distance away.

[johnpeezy]

I was just at the lfs yesterday, and saw some tiny (1"<) convicts in the feeder guppy tank. After I commented about the "feeder convicts", the owner was telling me that cichlids, even very small ones, are difficult to use as feeders. We were speculating that it's their attitude/body language that sends a different message than other fish, so they aren't perceived as prey as easily. Not to say that a larger fish won't eat a smaller cichlid, but I have seen convict fry swimming around a tank full of adult red-bellied piranha, even growing up, while guppies and/or rosy reds are eaten rather quickly.

funny that you mention that, I actually have a friend with a 2" convict living with a near 12" black rumbus piranah right now. I actually think its more of the convicts intelligence rather then there vibe. goldfish and guppies usually tend to hide in the top corners of the tank while the convicts always try to find something to duck under.

[tanks4thememories]

funny that you mention that, I actually have a friend with a 2" convict living with a near 12" black rumbus piranah right now. I actually think its more of the convicts intelligence rather then there vibe. goldfish and guppies usually tend to hide in the top corners of the tank while the convicts always try to find something to duck under.

I have spent a lot of time around Predatory fish. I think it is a combination of: Vibe, Coloration, and intelligence of the victim combined with the hunger level and Conditioning (what the aggressor is accustomed to eating) of the aggressor that decides which and when fish get eaten...lol

[MrDrums]

Don't understand this thread at all!! Couldn't imagine eating my fish. Besides that, you'd need about 40 convicts to make a decent meal (remember they do shrink a bit during cooking). I'd run them through an egg-wash first and dedge them in bread crumbs or seasoned flower and deep fry them....just like catfish strips from the deep south. mmmmmmmmmmmm

Weird......just weird....

[Holyvision]

Don't understand this thread at all!! Couldn't imagine eating my fish. Besides that, you'd need about 40 convicts to make a decent meal (remember they do shrink a bit during cooking). I'd run them through an egg-wash first and dedge them in bread crumbs or seasoned flower and deep fry them....just like catfish strips from the deep south. mmmmmmmmmmmm

Weird......just weird....

I was eating fried catfish, hush puppies, and coleslaw the moment I read this; and I live in Texas. Ironic!

[Gemini]

Do you all eat catfish? Here it's a pest that gets your bait when your trying to catch the good stuff!! There's one spot we fish that has a ridiculous amount of stupidly huge catfish. I chuck them back or cut the line.

[gunk]

Catfish is pretty good.

Haven't eaten the Convicts yet. Probably won't end up doing it. Sorry if I offended anybody by asking, but I still don't see anything terribly wrong with it. I know it's werid but I was just curious. So don't hang me, please.

[thejaegermonster]

I say go for it. Don't let them talk you out of it!

[Red]

umm i wouldnt :)

[thejaegermonster]

I only problem I could forsee is if you develop an insatiable hunger for Convicts. Could make dinners much more expensive in the future.

[TRDNiteLife]

I wouldn't do it, lol, but don't think there is anything wrong with it.

[UNCLE RUCKUS]

:hmm3grin2orange: MOST of the fish we keep and call "exotic" are considered just plain old fish by the local people in their country of origin. And if someone was fishing for food and caught one of these "Exotic" fish they would most likely eat it just like we would eat a bass or a croppie. Someone already mentioned the two main concerns:
1) Taste - "You are what you eat" and so are fish. Depending on what you fed the fish it might not taste so great.

2) Medications Most of the meds we use in hobby tanks are not FDA approved for aquaculture & Wildlife as fit for human consumption. As in # 1 you are what you eat and if a fish was ever medicated in its lifetime it is not a good idea to eat it. This is a fine line because as you may notice in the aquatic med isle at your LFS; a lot of the meds are basically the stuff doctors used to prescribe to us years ago. The main differences being the dosage & the inert ingredients. Then there are other meds that just plain old aren't used because they are unhealthy for humans.
These laws are basically to protect someone from long term exposure to bad ingredients due to making medicated aquarium raised fish a part of their regular diet. With all of that being said just like the guy at the frat party who eats the goldfish it really shouldn't matter if you only eat a few. Hell you get a lot worse from farm raised non-organic milk, beef and poultry in the US....lol

Otherwise it should be yummy. Let us know what it tastes like if you eat it?:hmm3grin2orange:
i was reading a article on malawi cichlidsand found that the locals catch the cichlids we pay top dollar for and roast them as snacks. so go figure. it is what it is a fish and humans eat fish simple as that. now whether you choose to eat your pet is on you. the last time i went by this asian market they had tanks of fresh live fish waiting to be bought for dinner. :hmm3grin2orange: someone needs to do a study to see if tilapia raised in a aquarium on market shrimp alone tastes like shrimp aand let us know. i can see that fishing rod that shoots like a gun coming in handy from the couch. just aim . .....shoot ....reel him in and take him to the kitchen. NOW THATS FRESH :hmm3grin2orange:

[William]

In Nicaragua (and other Central American countries) convicts are a common food fish and large quantities are sold in the markets along with Jags and tilapia. T has eaten them sometimes when I am in Nica. They taste good but I prefer Jags as they taste even better and are larger which makes it easier to remove bones etc. Both convicts and Jags according to me better tasting fish than Tilapia that is commonly sold the world over.

That said. I would not eat the fish from my aquarium. I do whoever know people who have eaten Midas cichlids and jags from their own aquariums and claim that aquarium raised fish taste well as well.

I hope I don't offend anyone with this post by admitting that I have eaten Convicts, Jags, Midas, Oscars, piranhas etc etc. But please remember that they are food in the areas where they live in the wild just like salmon or trout is in north America.

[dustinpedley]

I hope I don't offend anyone with this post by admitting that I have eaten Convicts, Jags, Midas, Oscars, piranhas etc etc. But please remember that they are food in the areas where they live in the wild just like salmon or trout is in north America.

I was watching a show on the travel channel where they were in the amazon and they were walking down the isles of an outdoor marketplace where i was able to recognize countless aquarium fish for sale as foods,

remember, Celestial Pearl Danios have been used as a snack food for eons in burma, where they dry and salt the little fish and eat then like beer nuts. and we pay $8-$10 a peace for them lol!

[Nightside_Eclipse]

Meat is meat, whether it is from Fido or Bambi. So long as it isn't endangered, protected or doesn't belong to someone else there is nothing wrong with eating animals.

I do volunteer work doing dive shows at a local aquarium and the topic of eating the inhabitants (large gar and striped bass) comes up quite often when they are being rather nippy when we are feeding them. However I wouldn't eat them because of the amounts of nasty chemicals they putin the water (formalin, etc).

I wouldn't recommend eating any fish from such a closed environment as an aquarium as they swim around in their own filth and whatever meds you may put in there all day, however I don't see anything ethically wrong with eating your own property.

[kaianuanu]

hey i need to get rid of my 7" oscar... i'm havin fish tonight! JK JK JK i could never, i have become attached to him from when i raised him from a little guy. also i wouldn't eat them as someone said about the medicines. i just wouldn't do it theirs risk involved there. and i don't see a moral problem w/ eating them. it's just like a pig, cow, or chicken. but like with an older fish thats smarter and shows personality... then i see a problem, then it's like eating your dog that you have kept as a pet not just an animal you kept intending it to be food in the end.

[kaianuanu]

PS: if you still need to get rid of them go bass fishin' they'd make good bait once their a little bigger.

[gunk]

I was thinking about using them as bait. My friend did that with a handful of Giant Danios he didn't want anymore, I think he caught a few decent sized bass. But I haven't been fishing in a couple years and this semester is pretty crazy I don't know if I'll have time for that. I may make a road trip to a LFS about 2 hrs away to finally get some Apistos, I'll see if they'll take them.

[toddnbecka]

I doubt that it would be legal to use them for bait. Goldfish would make awesome bait, but no fish is worth the fine for getting caught using them.

[tanks4thememories]

I doubt that it would be legal to use them for bait. Goldfish would make awesome bait, but no fish is worth the fine for getting caught using them.

I never thought of that. if it got off of your hook and survived ...then you just released convict cichlids into your local lake...lol

[Gemstone]

wellll.....we got to remember...mbuna is local food in africa...lol...so can't see why c onvicts can't be classified that was as well...mind you....after raising them..looking after them when theysick....talking to them...dunno if I could eat my fish....*thinks of my large severum pair*...nope....would def. not be able to guzzle them down..
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[Lady Hobbs]

I have to wonder if they are different tasting from a fish taken from an open body of water. Trout, taken right from a cold stream, are good but pond trout are nasty, mushy and gross tasting. I have eaten plenty of catfish. But it's not like our catfish. Channel-cats I think they're called.

In China, look at some of the crap they eat and if you watched the Olympics, it was pretty weird. Sea-horses on a stick? Dog meat all the time. ugh

We can eat anything needed to stay alive but it comes down to how bad do you really need to eat it? In our culture, we don't eat things like this but in other cultures it's normal for them.

Any 4-H's I knew, raised their animals well to get the top price for them not so they could eat them. Part of their program is teaching them how to raise stock for profit.

Two friends of mine, brothers, we flying to a fishing site in Canada when their plane crashed in the water and one was killed right away. The other escaped and lived for a couple weeks in Canada way out of civilization. He ate a water crane he caught.....obviously raw. Having to eat some things is necessary but gez.......why eat it if it isn't necessary? Doubt he ever ate one again.

I think it's a moral issue. To some it might not be a big thing but I think for the most part we really care about our fish and wouldn't think of eating them. We might eat another fish but not our own.

[tanks4thememories]

:hmm3grin2orange:
i was reading a article on malawi cichlidsand found that the locals catch the cichlids we pay top dollar for and roast them as snacks. so go figure. it is what it is a fish and humans eat fish simple as that. now whether you choose to eat your pet is on you. the last time i went by this asian market they had tanks of fresh live fish waiting to be bought for dinner. :hmm3grin2orange: someone needs to do a study to see if talapia raised in a aquarium on market shrimp alone tastes like shrimp aand let us know. i can see that fishing rod that shoots like a gun coming in handy from the couch. just aim . .....shoot ....reel him in and take him to the kitchen. NOW THATS FRESH :hmm3grin2orange:

Raise your own trout and Talapia...hmmm now there's an idea...lol

[johnpeezy]

Raise your own trout and Talapia...hmmm now there's an idea...lol

raise a pacu, more bang for the buck

[gunk]

I still think I'd rather eat a Convict than a Big Mac. I've never had either but Convicts are more appetizing to me.

[thejaegermonster]

Imagine... two Convict patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, all together on a seseame-seed bun... now that would be good

[kaianuanu]

i'm not so sure. a nice snapper burger would be good though

[Yami]

That is kind of a strange thing to consider.. eatting convicts pets.. (shudder at the thought) But that brings up something from my past as well. My Ex brother in Law gave me their convicts... 3 of them.. Soon I have one bumper crop after another and the litterally ate the eyes out of my other fish in the tank!!! The pet stores refused to take any of the little beasts and what a problem I had on my hands.. So ummm... a friend of mine had a huge Oscar andhe was having a time trying to keep up with it's appitite... Problem solved

[MrDrums]

Catfish is one of the best eating fish I have ever had. Especially good fried, as stated above, with said hushpuppies, cole slaw, and pickled green tomatoes. Heaven.......HEAVEN I say!

[thejaegermonster]

I've always lived by the motto that if it walks, swims, flies, crawls, slithers, or waddles, I can and should eat it.

[Holyvision]

I've always lived by the motto that if it walks, swims, flies, crawls, slithers, or waddles, I can and should eat it.

Therefore you eat no plants. :hmm3grin2orange:

[thejaegermonster]

Therefore you eat no plants.

Indeed I do not. A salad made of lettuce, cucumbers, and carrots just isn't as sporting as a salad of jaguars, wasps, and sharks.

[Holyvision]

Indeed I do not. A salad made of lettuce, cucumbers, and carrots just isn't as sporting as a salad of jaguars, wasps, and sharks.

So wait... based on your prior comment...your a cannibal?!

[thejaegermonster]

I don't think people would have such moral dilemmas about cannibalism if they knew how good their neighbor tasted.

[toddnbecka]

Just don't confuse a neighbor with good taste with a neighbor who tastes good...

[tanks4thememories]

Just don't confuse a neighbor with good taste with a neighbor who tastes good...

Where does monster live? If I see somone at my door with silverware and a lobster bib they aren't getting in...lol

[johnpeezy]

I've always lived by the motto that if it walks, swims, flies, crawls, slithers, or waddles, I can and should eat it.

how about a nice side of fugu puffer?

[Nightside_Eclipse]

Indeed I do not. A salad made of lettuce, cucumbers, and carrots just isn't as sporting as a salad of jaguars, wasps, and sharks.


Don't forget the mantee steaks, cooked RARE!

[toddnbecka]

Manatee steaks, YUM! Fire up the grill and the outboard, I'll carve!