I've heard the national PETA puke on our local radio talk show and I'm really pissed the host, Howie Carr, gives the ass-bleeped dweeb air-timel
PETA is the same as the eco-terrorists
This, despite the fact that I lived (and ate) with a vegetarian woman for 3 years. Turns out she had an unusual, mis-diagnosed gall bladder condition which made eating fatty meat products painful.
When the stones finally passed she was a complete carnivore.
Score one for the meat eaters, chalk my karma up for putting up with her.
I'd be surprised if fish can't feel pain - seems like a basic animal survival mechanism. There are certain people who can't feel pain, some sort of syndrome, and they end up damaging their bodies inadvertantly.
But a fish is normally gonna get chomped by a bigger fish in short order anyway, not sure which is more painful, a hook or a chomp and I don't really care.
And as for the biggest fish in the pond who eats all the smaller fish, well, he needs to realize that there is a bigger fish out there than him, and that's us.
PETA is part of the wing of envirowackos that believe "Humanity is a virus infecting the earth mother goddess Gaia." They also believe in some scary depopulation schemes.
Of course will they take the leadership position by being among those to be part of the depopulation?