Someone should inform PETA that meat eating plants DO exist on this planet, not just in the realm of Sci-Fi...
Posted on 01/03/2005 11:59:10 PM PST by ChristianDefender
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is urging former President Jimmy Carter to stop fishing after he recently told the story of being accidentally hooked in the face during an angling outing.
On one of its websites, FishingHurts.com, PETA says that during an appearance on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," Carter described the accident.
"His painful ordeal ended when his bodyguard stood on his chest and yanked the embedded lure from his face – the agony and fear that he felt are quite familiar to any fish who has been hooked on a fisher's line," PETA said.
The animal-rights group claims fish are intelligent creatures who feel pain, "and we expect that a compassionate world leader like President Carter will agree that they deserve to live in peace."
Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
According to Reuters, PETA faxed a letter yesterday to Carter's nonprofit Carter Center appealing to him to give up fishing.
A Carter Center spokesman told the new service the center does not comment on Carter's private correspondence.
The hook incident wasn't the first fishing horror endured by Carter. In 1979, he claimed that during a fishing trip in April of that year he was attacked by a "killer rabbit" and was forced to beat back the animal with a canoe paddle. The president later laughed off the report, saying it was the creation of a group of White House reporters and staff members after a Saturday night of socializing.
Concluded PETA: "We hope that President Carter will make his next foray into the great outdoors without any deadly weapons."
"– the agony and fear that he felt are quite familiar to any fish who has been hooked on a fisher's line," PETA said. "
Gee, I wonder if that's the same agony and fear they feel when they eat each other alive, sometimes a little bit at a time. Perhaps we should show the fish the same compassion they show when they eat their young.
PETA = BS to the 10th power...
PETA: President Carter, cease and desist at once your fishing activities or we'll send an army of killer rabbits to come after you. The last time was just a warning shot.
The GBETF does NOT agree! That's,,,Grizzely Bears Eating Tasty Fish!
/sarcasm off
Fishin' drunk again, huh Jeemy?
If fish are so smart how do we still catch them?
I hate PETA people. They advocate eating plants. Plants have feelings too! They are exploiting plants, delegating them to second class world citizenship. It's the same as racism!
Join our group PETOP (People For the Ethical Treatment Of Plants) Donate today! /sarcasm
LOL Ping
Several years ago I was debating with a vegetarian who was trying to claim that Jesus didn't eat meat. Somehow he acknowledged the moral superiority of Christ, but he was holding onto his own strange position. So I found the passage from the tail end of Mark that said he took a piece of fish and ate it. It ended the ridiculous line of reasoning right there.
***The animal-rights group claims fish are intelligent creatures who feel pain, "and we expect that a compassionate world leader like President Carter will agree that they deserve to live in peace."***
If we give the animals (those we consider food) the right to live in peace... we will deprive ourselves the right to live... Fish be with you...
Someone should inform PETA that meat eating plants DO exist on this planet, not just in the realm of Sci-Fi...
The cruelest people in the world were vegetarians.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
Vegans missed out on hearing of the miracle of the bread and fish feeding the masses. They really DON'T understand that "Jesus Fish" logo on the back the cars of some Christians.
If we weren't supposed to eat animals God wouldn't have made them out of meat............
That's what I would've done. Lol, give that man a medal!
The entire animal kingdom is out to get him. He's a slow learner.
I encourage Jimmy to show his compassion for fish by assisting Habitat for Humanity in building homes for fish who are without shelter, perhaps we could drop Jimmy off at the Marianas Trench with a hammer and a bag of nails, and a couple lead weights to keep him (ahem) solidly positioned while hammering away for the fishies. And if he gets tired?
Jimmy can sleep with the fishes. Heh.
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