WEBVTT 00:00:00.359 --> 00:00:01.879 Hi there! If you’re a kid 00:00:02.980 --> 00:00:06.900 and you like the Little Mermaid, love to listen to a good SharkTale, 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:09.320 want to free Willy or Find Nemo… 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:11.900 oh wait…there he is… 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:18.260 or maybe you’re a fan of fish sticks, goin’ fishin’, or just think something fishy’s going on, 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:20.520 then this video is for you! 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.720 [Oh! I found him again] 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:33.540 Hi it's Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to another vegan nugget. I’m so excited 00:00:33.550 --> 00:00:38.730 to be making another video just for you. So far in my videos for kids we’ve talked about 00:00:38.730 --> 00:00:44.690 why we don’t drink milk, eat meat or eggs, or honey, or wear wool, 00:00:44.690 --> 00:00:49.680 how you can be a superhero for the planet, the people and the animals by being vegan 00:00:49.690 --> 00:00:54.530 and even heard from real vegan kids! You can watch all of those videos later if you want 00:00:54.530 --> 00:00:57.360 linked there and in the video description below. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:01.360 Now just like in my other videos I promise that I’m not going to show you anything 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:05.870 scary, that I’ll tell you the truth no matter what and that I won’t talk down to you, 00:01:05.870 --> 00:01:07.540 cause you’re super smart! 00:01:07.540 --> 00:01:12.580 Now in one of my other videos for kids we talked all about why we don’t eat meat. 00:01:12.580 --> 00:01:17.549 When most people think about meat, they think about animals like cows, pigs, chickens and 00:01:17.549 --> 00:01:19.669 other birds, maybe even goats and sheep. 00:01:20.850 --> 00:01:26.890 Strangely enough fish are often left out altogether. So you may hear someone say they’re vegetarian 00:01:26.890 --> 00:01:32.170 (meaning they don’t eat meat), but they do eat fish, which is pretty silly when you 00:01:32.170 --> 00:01:37.950 think about it. I mean, does that mean that fish are plants? Have you ever seen a fish tree, 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.640 because I certainly haven’t! If you…do find a fish tree…definitely let me know. 00:01:46.740 --> 00:01:51.720 Well vegans certainly don’t eat fish. If you don’t know already, being vegan means 00:01:51.720 --> 00:01:56.700 you don’t eat animals or anything that comes out of them like milk, eggs, cheese, or honey 00:01:56.700 --> 00:02:00.549 or wear anything from their bodies, like wool or leather or silk. 00:02:00.549 --> 00:02:07.189 And the truth is fish are animals! Just like dogs, cats, cows, pigs, chickens, and us! 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:12.640 But being basically called plants isn’t the only way fish get a bad rap. 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.640 Many people think that fish can’t feel pain. There are even teams of scientists who argue 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:22.760 back and forth all the time with their big words and charts and graphs about 00:02:22.760 --> 00:02:25.120 whether or not fish feel pain. 00:02:25.700 --> 00:02:30.540 If you’re super into science, I have a whole video about the battle of brainiacs, 00:02:30.540 --> 00:02:36.680 that you can watch here. But to make it simple, studies show that fish do, in fact feel pain. 00:02:37.160 --> 00:02:41.540 And like I’ve talked about in my other videos for kids, if someone can feel pain, 00:02:41.540 --> 00:02:48.320 then it’s not right to hurt them, even if they do live underwater and don’t look or act anything like we do. 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:53.900 It’s hard to know what a fish is thinking or feeling because they do look so different from us! 00:02:54.540 --> 00:02:59.860 When dogs are hurt or sad, they whine. When cows are really scared, their eyes get all big. 00:03:00.320 --> 00:03:05.320 When cats are happy, they purr. And even though we don’t speak dog or cow or cat - 00:03:05.980 --> 00:03:09.560 or at least I don’t…if you do…that’s pretty awesome!— 00:03:09.980 --> 00:03:12.340 we still can still understand what they’re feeling. 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:17.820 But how do you know if a fish is happy or sad? If they’re excited? Scared? 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:24.460 How can you tell if they hurt? Sadly, what scientists usually do to find out of someone can feel pain, 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:30.720 is they hurt them. And we humans have a habit of not believing something until we prove it. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.200 So even though fish have always felt pain, scientists keep hurting them. 00:03:36.580 --> 00:03:41.740 It’s kinda like if the Earth was invaded by aliens from the planet Fishtonia, who looked 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:47.060 totally different than us and couldn’t understand what we were saying. And just because we look 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:52.720 different from them, the aliens decided that we probably weren’t very smart and definitely 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:57.849 don’t feel pain or emotions. How scary would that be trying to tell them in the best way 00:03:57.849 --> 00:04:02.229 we know how that we do hurt, but being ignored because we’re so different? 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.400 That may seem like a silly concept, but sometimes the best way to know if what we do to animals 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.860 is right is to imagine ourselves in their place. 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:17.879 Of course what’s worse for fish than scientists hurting them to see if they feel pain is the 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:24.729 whole rest of the world hurting them for dinner! A ton of people all around the world eat a 00:04:24.729 --> 00:04:32.139 ton of fish, and I mean actually tons and tons of fish. And because people think that fish can’t 00:04:32.139 --> 00:04:34.999 feel pain, there are no laws about how they should be treated. 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:40.480 It’s kinda like finding your favorite food on your kitchen table but when to take a bite, 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:43.969 suddenly your mouth hurts really bad! And before you know it you’re pulled out the 00:04:43.969 --> 00:04:45.489 front door and underwater. 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:51.000 That would be pretty scary, right? Well that’s what it’s like for fish when they bite onto hooks. 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.939 And just like we can’t breathe underwater, fish can’t breathe when they’re out of 00:04:55.939 --> 00:05:00.639 the water, so after they’re caught, whether by a hook or by a net, they die 00:05:00.640 --> 00:05:03.479 very slowly and very painfully. 00:05:03.479 --> 00:05:09.759 The worst part is fish are even skinned and cut up alive. I can’t even imagine how terrifying 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:11.279 and painful that would be! 00:05:12.020 --> 00:05:17.419 Fish may not look like you or me. They may not scream or cry like we do. But even you 00:05:17.419 --> 00:05:21.559 and I don’t scream the same way or cry the same way or about the same things. 00:05:22.380 --> 00:05:27.039 Different people laugh at different jokes. Some people will hide when they’re scared while others 00:05:27.039 --> 00:05:32.520 will act tough and pretend they’re okay. In some countries shaking your head means 00:05:32.520 --> 00:05:34.260 yes and nodding means no. 00:05:35.100 --> 00:05:39.960 And I don’t have to tell you that different people look..well…different! But when it 00:05:39.969 --> 00:05:45.269 comes down to it, no matter what language we speak or how we shake our heads, we all feel. 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:51.000 We can feel joy and happiness, we can feel fear and sadness and we can hurt. 00:05:51.440 --> 00:05:57.960 And so can fish. And cows, and pigs, and chickens, goats, sheep, dogs, cats, monkeys, camels, 00:05:57.969 --> 00:06:02.379 parrots, rabbits, iguanas, elephants, zebras, whales, rhinoceroses, platypuses, dragons, 00:06:02.379 --> 00:06:04.359 unicorns, jabberwocks and bandersnatches… 00:06:06.700 --> 00:06:09.300 oh I got... a little carried away there… 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:17.199 But here’s the important thing. Fish can feel pain. And hurting anyone who can be hurt 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:22.830 is a pretty awful thing to do. They may not talk like Nemo and Dori, but they do have 00:06:22.830 --> 00:06:28.039 mothers and fathers and sister and brothers. They even form friendships, watch each others’ 00:06:28.039 --> 00:06:30.599 backs, and are a whole lot smarter than we’ve always thought! 00:06:31.820 --> 00:06:39.820 But every year we humans kill about 2.8 trillion fish for food. That’s a pretty huge number! 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:47.460 Just think about this. This is an inch. If you walked for 2.8 trillion inches, you could 00:06:47.469 --> 00:06:54.360 go to the moon and back almost 94 times, or around the world almost 2,800 times! 00:06:54.940 --> 00:07:00.040 It’s hard to even imagine a number that big! And it’s not only hurting the fish, 00:07:00.050 --> 00:07:04.590 but also our planet. Pretty soon there won’t be any fish left in the sea! 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.980 But here’s the good news. You can be a friend to the fish and choose not to eat them! 00:07:10.520 --> 00:07:15.500 And you don’t even have to give up your favorite fish dishes! There are vegan fish sticks and 00:07:15.509 --> 00:07:18.029 vegan prawns and other options to chose from. 00:07:18.420 --> 00:07:24.860 No painful hooks, no being pulled from their home, no slow and scary deaths, and no being 00:07:24.869 --> 00:07:29.999 cut up alive. You can save them from all of that. And even though they may not be able 00:07:29.999 --> 00:07:35.319 to thank you in a way you can understand, your choice will keep little fish families 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.839 together. And that’s pretty amazing! 00:07:38.380 --> 00:07:42.740 I hope this was helpful. Let me know what you thought of the video in the comments and 00:07:42.749 --> 00:07:45.889 if you have other things you’d like me to cover, feel free to tell me! 00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:50.520 If you liked this video, do give it a thumbs up and share it around to help other kids 00:07:50.529 --> 00:07:54.479 learn the truth. 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