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Opinion: Majority of Americans have taken the bait, says Potsdam resident

Posted 1/31/23

To the Editor: I too often see pictures of dead fish beings in a variety of publications and somehow in many of their sports sections. This made me ponder how fishing could be a sport. Apparently …

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Opinion: Majority of Americans have taken the bait, says Potsdam resident

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To the Editor:

I too often see pictures of dead fish beings in a variety of publications and somehow in many of their sports sections. This made me ponder how fishing could be a sport. Apparently getting an animal to take the bait and bite into something they shouldn't is a sport. If so, the animal agriculture industry is great at playing this sport given that over 90% of Americans have taken their bait and are Meathooked (Zaraska) and as a result are unable to escape The Pleasure Trap (Goldhamer and Lisle).

A recovering academic now focusing on activism.

Randy Johnston

Potsdam