"To many, the notion that we should care about the suffering of fish seems absurd.For most, fish amount to little more than swimming protein, a healthy food to be plucked from rivers and seas.
But, as a disturbing new book shows, scientists are now confident that fish, once symbolic of dumb, primitive stupidity, do not only feel pain, but have a complex emotional life, too.
Indeed, as the book's author says, there is 'no logical reason why we should not extend to fish the same welfare considerations that we currently extend to birds and mammals'.
