If you had to kill the animals yourself, would you still eat meat?

It depends on the arbitrary moral line you have set yourself, and are trying to project as being at a level appropriate for the rest of society. You obviously have set the line at eating fish and not other animals for a reason, and the most common one pescetarians use to make that decision is the value judgement is that fish are somehow OK to kill but higher lifeforms (such as pigs, sheep and cows) aren't.

You have decided that you are fine with eating fish, so have told yourself that if you couldn't get fish from a supermarket, you'd be fine with going out and getting your own.

Millions of vegetarians and vegans the world over would be horrified.

Realistically speaking there isn't that much difference between clubbing a fish to death and sticking a knife in a pig - it's just that fish don't have cute little faces.

I would wait until they died naturally.

I have done so many times before. You know how when you cook food yourself it tends to taste nicer? It's like that. You know how fresh that meat is and where it's been - it has a psychological effect on you.

It depends on the arbitrary moral line you have set yourself, and are trying to project as being at a level appropriate for the rest of society. You obviously have set the line at eating fish and not other animals for a reason, and the most common one pescetarians use to make that decision is the value judgement is that fish are somehow OK to kill but higher lifeforms (such as pigs, sheep and cows) aren't.

You have decided that you are fine with eating fish, so have told yourself that if you couldn't get fish from a supermarket, you'd be fine with going out and getting your own.

Millions of vegetarians and vegans the world over would be horrified.

Realistically speaking there isn't that much difference between clubbing a fish to death and sticking a knife in a pig - it's just that fish don't have cute little faces.

Just out of interest do you live on a farm? Or do you have animals in your back yard? How does it work? I can totally understand how it would be a sort of relief to know where it's from and everything!

Nope central london born and raised - when my parents and I go bangladesh I have helped. People tend to gather their meat locally there.

It's a mix of both. Some animals in our gardens and some we go out and specifically buy to slaughter at a later time.

That's a bit like saying there isn't much difference between killing a fly and a stag-beetle. Pigs have a lot of fat and are, generally speaking, large, strong animals. And to kill a fish I would try and use the most humane way possible, (rendering the fish unconscious first), which wouldn't be to club it to death.

Also, if I thought like that I wouldn't have any qualms about killing larger fish, like tuna. But there is obviously a difference in difficulty between holding a sardine down and holding a massive salmon or something like that down.

You might be waiting quite a while...

This is when being a vegetarian comes in handy... don't have to feel the guilt at the end!