Do fish eat fish?
Posted on 11/17/2004 1:29:36 PM PST by NavyCanDo
NEW YORK — Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi as alternatives, animal-rights activists have launched a novel campaign arguing that fish — contrary to stereotype — are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat.
Called the Fish Empathy Project, the campaign reflects a strategy shift by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as it challenges a diet component widely viewed as nutritious and uncontroversial.
"No one would ever put a hook through a dog's or cat's mouth," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan outreach. "Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they'll stop eating them."
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So PETA will probably be upset at the salmon I plan to cook tonight, huh?
Do fish eat fish?
In celebration, I think I will put shrimp on my veal cutlet.
How long before they claim that plants are smart and sensitive as well?
This coming from the same people who save the salamanders, build a tunnel under the road for them to cross safely, (no kidding, in Amherst MA) and yet.........they kill their young???
They are from Mars or Venus, must be some unknown planet outside our solar system.
"Carrots and cucumbers are smart, sensitive and shouldn't be food "
the difference is that they cannot run or swim as fast !
I hear that PETA may take over for the DNC...but they may not be CRAZY ENOUGH.... :-)
When someone from PETA can get in the water with a hungry Great White and convince it not to eat them then I'll listen.
Until then it's just blah, blah, blah.
Betcha he has a nameplate on his door and everything...
Hey, great idea for dinner. Heading out the door to Captain D's right now.
rofl
Well, if you believe your ancestors came from the sea....
And yet not a peep from them when John Kerry killed a defenseless goose...
Proof PETA is right!
Ben Franklin wrote about this in his autobiography. He tried the vegetarian thing for a bit, and then he looked in the stomach of a fish and saw more fish, he recanted.
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