I do,
@Rocky998 . PETA types produce some very weird propaganda sometimes.
I believe Petchain corporations are destroying this hobby, at least on our continent. I love this hobby, so I am hostile to them and would love to see them collapse. So I can see why the video is one we'd want to believe, although none of us would want that to happen to the fish. Maybe the fish are diseased and someone is too lazy to properly euthanize them. More likely, if it's true, maybe the supplier doubleshipped and there was nowhere to put them. There could be reasons, all of which would be awful, why a store would do that. In corporate fish-selling, fish are called 'units', and units are things we can dispose of. So maybe it could be true. But maybe not.
I've mentioned here that I have unpacked shipments from Asian fishfarms that used Bettas in bags as packing materials. They are dirt cheap fish with phenomenal markups on them, and it would hurt no one's bottom line to trash them in dumpsters. Moral and ethical bottom lines are rare in many businesses.
I'd need to see the dumpster to start. TikTok is a popularity site, and views matter. The Grade 9s in my classes would practice their dances all lunch in the vain hope of going viral someday. People do dumb stunts, and often embarrass themselves in the quest to go viral. Betta keeper outrage is a thing, and if you light that up, you'll get hits.
The jury is out, and the evidence is thin.
