Fishing will be fun - or not quite so as it turned out.

Fishing off the back of sailing boats seemed all the rage, hence I thought I would give it a go. Nothing, nothing, nothing using a hook and bait. So, I called into a shop and bought a couple of lures. It then dawned on me that this was like the tomato growing game. The same quantity of tomatoes that cost you £20 to grow at home can be bought in the supermarket for £4. £100 of fishing gear to catch £20 worth of fish. I suppose organic pesticide-free fruit and fresh fish has a piquancy that is not obtainable when you buy it from a shop.

It only took ten minutes to snare an unfortunate soul, well tuna actually. After pulling it in and placing into a bucket the grim reaper business of smashing its head in begun. Then a bit of knifing, followed by a decapitation. The horror unfolding is awful to say the least. I have no doubt the suffering. no matter how comparatively swift is dreadful.

Just visualise the terror of having a hook in your face and swimming as fast and frantically as you can to stop it going in any further. Then being picked up and suspended by it. Maybe the construct of a fish is not really comparable to a human but being hooked can't be pleasant. Some people have been tied to cars and dragged in a semi-equivalent manner.

This has made me think once again about the whole aspect of taking someone's body for food. We are not interested in them, their personality their desires or feeling, just their body. I am sure that is an aspect to prostitution to some extent too. Or one-night stands. Or ogling over someone's creamy dreamy physical gift of a body.

There are obscenities galore in the meat production business. Head after head hacked off of sheep. Each head held in the hand of the human and jaw opened to examine the teeth, before it is chucked into a bucket separate from the carcasses.

Row upon row of tiny chicks whizzing along conveyor belts. Some are yanked up to be examined, often breaking a leg in the process, then pushed down a tube. No care or respect. No worry, no fear of recourse. The chick will still taste fine after weeks living with a broken deformed leg.

Milk. Mothers kept in a permanent state of milk production. Calves taken from their mothers after three days, and sometimes half of them eliminated because they are the undesired sex.

One thing that being a vegan will not change is the horror that exists in nature. Lions do not eat grass. Whales eat thousands of fish in one foul swoop. It is a dog eat dog world. 'They know no better' has been said.

I do think a lot about how we kill, how we keep, and how we invade the space of all the other animals. I am eating more and more vegan food but have yet to make the transition. I am trying to offset some of the guilt by buying more land to assign as human free.

As for the fish. Well in the oven it went and down the gullet in gratifying chunks. Back it went into the sea the next day via what we call the turtle release valve.