Fish meat smells because it's decaying...why don't other meats have a strong smell, are they putting something in it to hide the smell?

All Meat that's rotting will smell, capiche?

Apparently you've never been fishing before or even to the sea for that matter, because live fish smell that way, too. Know what else smells, and tastes, like that? Seaweed such as kelp, nori, etc. The odor is due to an organic compound called Triethylamine.

Other meats will smell quite horrible given time, and rotting fish will smell even worse. Meat is generally refrigerated, slowing putrefaction, not chemically treated.

Fish smells the way it does because that's what fish smells like. It has a strong smell - same as onions do.

Any kind of meat will have a smell that is, to us, unpleasant when it starts to rot.

No. Fish smells because of bacteria.

But everything smells when it's decaying. Ever got a wiffileball if decaying wood?

All meat smells when rotting, so do plants.

There is nothing being added to hide any smell since the meat at the store is NOT rotting. Fresh meat and fresh fish has little smell and what little smell it has is good hence its not rotting.

All meats will smell as they begin to decay.

fish is more noticeable as it will go "bad" faster than other meat.

If I had a pound of trout in the refrigerator for 5 days and a pound of pork chops for the same length of time the fish would smell far worse than the pork.

Fish just smells.

each meat has it´s own kind of "smell" it does not matter fish, chicken, lamb or so on

all meat stinks when it rots. fish just happens to spoil faster.

Probably.

and most people do not realize that meat is nearly tasteless.

They eat it with seasonings... salts.... sauces... bread. cheese... etc.......

and they eat it because they believe in "protein" and yet... most of them are unhealthy and fat.

It is just trending or "mimicry".

but now that I said that, the entire planet will start using the word "mimicry"...

anyway......

good luck.