Ever wonder why Mother Fool's doesn't serve fish?

Besides the fact that we are a coffeehouse, we also are concerned about the damage being done to the ocean's ecosystem by commercial fishing. Factory fish farms present a host of environmental problems, as well. In many parts of the world, industrial fishing has serious human rights issues, including the use of slavery. And, of course, the fish themselves are living creatures with families, friends and aspirations. What right do we have to kill them for dinner?

New studies indicate that all of the fish that are currently fished for food in the ocean will be severely depleted in the next 40 years.

Learn about the issues and then join us in leaving fish off the menu.

• Fish rights
  
  • Fish Feel Pain
  • Fish Smarts: Why Fish Are More Than Just Streams of Protein
    
  How do we know that fish have feelings, too?
  

• Shrimp farming
  
  • Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare
  • The Dirty Secret of Shrimp Farming
    

• Salmon farming
  
  • Salmon farming has done ‘enormous harm’ to fish and environment
  • Salmon farming in crisis: 'We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas'
  • Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming
    

• Overfishing
  
  • How does overfishing threaten coral reefs?
  • Overfishing driving dozens of species into extinction threatening
    

• Human Rights
  
  • 'Such brutality': tricked into slavery in the Thai fishing industry
  • Thai fishing industry: abuses continue in unpoliced waters
    

** Listen to a song about shrimp farming, feat. Vandana Shiva **