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Originally Posted by Saya
And there's really not much a difference between farm animals and companion animals. If you keep one fish for your amusement for all its life in a tank, and you pay for fish that have been kept all their lives on a fish farm just for the amusement of eating it, where's the difference?
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The difference is how the person feels toward the fish and how it's raised. Clearly you're not going to raise a goldfish to be eaten, as Honey pointed out. I have never heard of someone keeping trout as pets. Wall ornaments, yes, but not pets. And what matters most is how you perceive the animal in question. No one looks at said trout as a companion fish, but we do consider betas and guppies to be such. The difference between a companion animal and a farm animal is how you raise it and how you perceive it.
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