PETA: "Save the Sea Kittens"

[Cold Blooded]

Seemed like this could either go into P&R or here. PETA's latest campaign to "save the fish" by renaming them as: "Sea Kittens."

PETA: "Save the Sea Kittens" (http://www.peta.org/sea_Kittens/about.asp)


http://www.peta.org/sea_Kittens/_images/facs_title.gif

People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.

Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat.

[Rob_Merritt]

I don't know, I rather like the idea of eatting Kitten Sticks and having kittens and chips.

[Sol Invictus]

Save the Dugongs. But I don't care about trout.

[Hans Lauring]

I'd eat a kitten if it was prepared properly.

[salwon]

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/csigournay/2005/04/14/big_ugly_fish.jpg

[Alan Au]

I'd be more concerned about the land sharks.

- Alan

[Brendan]

Fish do get a bum rap. Fishing is much more destructive than farming which is why I don't understand people who only eat fish and not land based meat for ethical reasons.

Drag netting destroys the sea floor, by-catch is a major issue and a large amount of fish stocks are on the verge of collapse. Hell, the way fish die is even more inhumane than the way cattle and chickens are slaughtered.

I guess what I am trying to say is eat cow instead of fish.

[JPR]

Nobody gives a shit. Fish aren't mammals (no boobs).

[Mike O'Malley]

So Christina Applegate is a fish?

[JPR]

That's absurd. She's just no longer a mammal.

[wisefool]

Fish do get a bum rap. Fishing is much more destructive than farming which is why I don't understand people who only eat fish and not land based meat for ethical reasons.

Drag netting destroys the sea floor, by-catch is a major issue and a large amount of fish stocks are on the verge of collapse. Hell, the way fish die is even more inhumane than the way cattle and chickens are slaughtered.

I guess what I am trying to say is eat cow instead of fish.

A small nitpick: free-range chicken would be a more ethical/enviromental choice. Chicken is cheap, and therefore energy and resource-efficient form of food. The free-range part is so we don't feel as guilty for eating them.

[Glenn]

http://www.neighborhoodmarket.org/UserFiles/Image/monkfish.jpg

[Bill]

Mmmm. Monkfish.

[Kalle]

It's a neat idea. Anything that can get people to think twice about the ecological disaster that is commercial fishing gets my approval.

[Slainte Mhath]

I love a good kitten fry during Lent! ;-)

Seriously though, fishing is an industry that needs greater regualtion ASAP. Managed correctly it could be a viable renewable food source, but at the current rates there won't be a fishing industry 20 years from now.

Besides, seafood is gross.

[JMR]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/funny-pictures-cat-teaches-you-to-fish-and-then-steals-your-food.jpg

[Athryn]

I prefer the much more reasonable approach that the Monterey Aquarium has:

Seafood Watch Program (http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx).

In other words, it's still OK to eat seafood, as long as you try to be reasonable and responsible about it.

[nlanza]

I prefer the much more reasonable approach that the Monterey Aquarium has:

Seafood Watch Program (http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx).

In other words, it's still OK to eat seafood, as long as you try to be reasonable and responsible about it.

Yeah, the aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo does something similar; they give out little fliers explaining what fish are overfished, which fisheries are harder on the environment, what's reasonably farmed, etc, etc.

It's all presented in this nice calm non-hysterical way, which results in people actually picking up the fliers and reading them.

[Wholly Schmidt]

I can't wait for adorable lolfish to catch on.

[shang]

I can't wait for adorable lolfish to catch on.

However, I would advise against checking whether lolfish.org or net are already in use..

[Tortilla]

That was a nasty surprise. Apparently lolfish.org is a goatse wannabe.