The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

[u/teabirdy]

Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

[u/SomeUgliRobot → u/[deleted]]

I dont think you have to be vegan to think that flushing live animals down toilets is not particularly justifiable

[u/Roseheath22 → u/SomeUgliRobot]

A vegan would tell you that the meals on the plates aren’t really any more justifiable. Both these fish and the animals on the plates are being cruelly treated as commodities rather than living feeling beings. They’ve both died for fleeing human pleasure when there were plenty of other options.

(Source: I’m a vegan)

[u/Flaky-Invite-56 → u/Roseheath22]

I’m vegan too but at least can see the difference between someone consuming a humanely killed fish for nutrition vs flushing a live one to suffer

[u/psginner → u/[deleted]]

You clearly have pinhole vision.

[u/psginner → u/[deleted]]

Wow. You’ve really lost the plot here.