Fishing

[lethargic_man]

Are there any fishers here who would like to take me fishing with them one Sunday this summer in, say a fish pond in north London or somewhere else within reasonable distance of here?

This is all part of my desire to see if being an accomplice to taking an animal from running/swimming around freely to sitting on my plate can help drive me further towards vegetarianism, a path I've been stalled on for some years now.

First I tried to see shechita performed in an abbatoir, but the people I contacted were extremely suspicious and weren't having any of it. Then, when I mentioned this to R. Eiran Davies​, he said he'd invite me along next time he shechted a chicken for the woman ewt calls the Chicken Lady, but then she ran out of chickens, and by the time she'd got more, Eiran had left the country; so I'm now trying to re-start the process, but with a still more modest aim.

Fish do have an advantage for me though: Shechita not being required, and the animal not being fleishik, I could be directly responsible for the fish's death then take it home and cook and eat it myself.

PS: No Nirvana quotes, please; it's not factually correct.

Comments

[iddewes]

I guess you do need a fishing license though I suppose if you go with someone who has one you probably wouldn't get caught. I found this, maybe it helps. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-rod-fishing-byelaws-anglian-region

You could always watch videos of animals getting slaughtered, I bet there are some on YouTube somewhere, and if you weren't actually present but just watching the video it would not matter if it was kosher, would it?

[lethargic_man]

I guess you do need a fishing license though I suppose if you go with someone who has one you probably wouldn't get caught.

Oh, I hadn't realised there was such complication. It might be possible to work around the limitation legally: licensed fisher pulls the fish out of the water and hands to me to take the decision to return it to the water or bash its brains out on a rock.

You could always watch videos of animals getting slaughtered,

I don't think that watching without some sense of complicity would have the same effect, and being physically present would heighten the effect.

[withagreatlove]

I think this is a wonderful idea and I commend you for it. Good luck!