It’s the senseless exploitation that makes fish hate us, demeaning a noble foe by toeing him into the brush, worse yet, making him lick the feet of his master, that type of brutality is carried down into the gene pool and remembered.

I bet fish were once like slippery dogs, you throw the fly – they catch and return it; as most lacked the good sense of a setter or retriever, they’d play tug of war rather than drop the fly at your feet.

The news that we’re eating them probably made them reluctant to play, and now – pressing them into a lifetime of servitude munching Mrs Ledbetter’s bunions is the last straw.

Bui was personally delivered a letter Thursday informing her of the agency’s decision, which was based on a state law that all implements used in pedicures had to be “sanitized, disinfected, or disposed of after each service to protect salon customers from the possibility of disease and infections.”

“You can clean files and other equipment, but there is just no way to sanitize live fish,” said Christine Anthony, a spokeswoman for the agency.

I’m not so certain, as fish-nibbling pedicures was a thriving concern – why not increase profits by expanding the venue to include fish and chips while you’re being nibbled?

Wait for the customer to leave, take the tub into the back room and deep fry the contents. It makes as much sense as shooting the human performing the pedicure, aren’t they an implement as well?