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Has Fish Had Its Chips? (PETA says that codfish have feelings too)
The Sun [UK] ^ | November 19, 2004 | Daniel Jones

Posted on 11/19/2004 6:49:34 PM PST by quidnunc

Fish and chip shops across the nation have rallied against calls by barmy animal rights activists to ban one of Britain's favourite dishes.

Vegetarian group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has traditionally campaigned against people wearing fur coats or the killing of farmyard animals.

Now it wants fish suppers taken off the menu because it says the tasty underwater creatures are "intelligent" and feel pain when caught.

PETA's Dawn Carr said: "We are not pulling any punches on this one.

"We don't think people should eat fish at all — and if that means they do not eat fish and chips then so be it.

She added: "People should go on a fishing boat and see the amount of suffering a fish goes through when it is caught.

"It's horrific — their eyes pop out and their stomachs burst because of the pressure."

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(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalwhackos; peta
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To: Graybeard58

Graybeard, there better be milk in that beer can :)


21 posted on 11/19/2004 7:16:46 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I TALK to some of my plants occasionally....especially if they're being especially good (like my 50 year old Christmas Cactus of my great grandmother's that is having "babies (flowers) right now....<:)


22 posted on 11/19/2004 7:17:44 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tax cuts, Tax reform, social security reform, Supreme Court, etc.....the next 4 years.....)
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To: quidnunc

Hey PETA,

Remember those scantily clad (or unclad) bimbos you had in cages to protest something I can't be bothered to remember? Tell them I would like to have them investigate my codpiece. They might be able to discern whether my cod has feelings.


23 posted on 11/19/2004 7:20:26 PM PST by Entropy Squared
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To: quidnunc
PETA suggested fish and chip shops serve fish substitutes instead.

I didn't even know they made fish substitutes, probably tastes like chicken. : )

24 posted on 11/19/2004 7:21:34 PM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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To: quidnunc
What do you suppose the percentage of PETA members that are against abortion is?
25 posted on 11/19/2004 7:23:43 PM PST by YankeeFan
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To: Popman

My freezer is stocked with red salmon, king salmon and halibut that I personally killed in Alaska this summer.


26 posted on 11/19/2004 7:23:55 PM PST by umgud (Donate monthly, don't be a Freeploader)
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To: Trajan88
think I'll head off to Dallas' Old Monk to get my fill of fish & chips and a few cold Boddingtons.

I love the Old Monk and used to hang out with Peter and Furgel at the Dubliner for years. Man the good 'ol days.

27 posted on 11/19/2004 7:24:13 PM PST by LittleRedRooster
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To: diamond6
Graybeard, there better be milk in that beer can :)

It IS milk.

Yeah, that's the ticket.....milk.

28 posted on 11/19/2004 7:25:29 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Coulter/Ingraham - '08.)
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To: umgud
My freezer is stocked with red salmon, king salmon and halibut that I personally killed in Alaska this summer.

PETA member sees it as :

My freezer is stocked with red salmon, king salmon and halibut that I personally killed murdered in Alaska this summer.

Next you will probably murder your grass on your front yard. : )

Gee, you're making me hungry, I absolutely love salmon

29 posted on 11/19/2004 7:31:49 PM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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To: quidnunc
These guys are highly offended:

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30 posted on 11/19/2004 7:32:42 PM PST by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: quidnunc

31 posted on 11/19/2004 7:37:33 PM PST by bd476
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To: quidnunc

I love to fish, and I love to eat fish more than I love to fish. But I have to tell you this story...

In the mid-70's I was visiting a Buddhist temple on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. A common practice by visitors was to buy crackers and feed them to the beautiful, multi-colored fish called Koi (Japanese Carp). While I was feeding the fish, the caretaker, an old Japanese man, approached me and said, "Fish are very smart". Without waiting for a response he broke off a piece of my cracker, looked at a fish located in the outer part of the mass of hungry fish, and said, "Charlie!" Immediately a fish literally crawled over the top of the other fish to the man, and opened his mouth. The man place the cracker into the fish's mouth, and said nonchalantly, "That's Charlie". It was truly magical. I thought I was in a parallel universe.


32 posted on 11/19/2004 7:41:39 PM PST by PhilipFreneau (Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to "help others".)
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To: goodnesswins

For years the scraggly Arbor Vitae beside my house has just goofed off and grown not a bit.
Last March, I said [to no one in particular though within earshot" of the shrub] "That's it. I'm calling Dad and telling him to pull this ratty thing out by the roots".
It grew a full foot this summer and has bushed out to glorious dimensions.
I don't know if "talking to them" does anything but threatening their lives apparently does...:)


33 posted on 11/19/2004 7:44:16 PM PST by Salamander (Vanity, vanity. All is vanity.....)
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To: PhilipFreneau

I have a large Comet in my backyard pond named "Moe".
If you call to him/her/who knows for sure, he/she/it appears and will take flakes from your fingers.
The only problem is that Moe is greedy and nips.
[as in "gimme Moe!" "gimme Moe"]....;))


34 posted on 11/19/2004 7:47:28 PM PST by Salamander (Vanity, vanity. All is vanity.....)
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To: quidnunc

Now I want some fish and chips, and I don't know of any good places around here. GRRR, stupid PETA people giving cravings that I can't satisfy for a long time.


35 posted on 11/19/2004 7:50:25 PM PST by Celtic Rose (It may be prudent in me to act sometimes by other men's reason, but I can think only by my own)
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To: Salamander

LOL.


36 posted on 11/19/2004 8:05:34 PM PST by PhilipFreneau (Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to "help others".)
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To: quidnunc

wonder what they think of RAT poison


37 posted on 11/19/2004 8:30:48 PM PST by nj26
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To: PhilipFreneau
"That's Charlie". It was truly magical.

That's nuthin. The cow, the goat, the lamb bred by the kids in the farm programs are very expressive. What kid doesn't like a little piglet? And yet the farm programs exist to teach the kids about raising cattle for slaughter. Some don't survive that experience, and join PETA (I guess). I can understand wishing to avoid the slaughterhouse method, the assembly-line butchery and waste. Ideally, an animal is killed and most every bit eaten or otherwise used. That's difficult to do in the centralized assembly-line ship and delivery channels that were created in the 19th century. Entire animals are killed, literally to no purpose. Many are killed to no purpose. But to argue that they should never be killed is immoral. Animals are NOT 'people too'. They specifically are not. And it may be a moral gesture to be a vegetarian. I don't doubt that. But for a vegetarian to try and turn the reality of the world upside down is a lie, is wrong, and is immoral. And that describes PETA. They are not doing the Lord's work.

38 posted on 11/19/2004 9:28:17 PM PST by sevry
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To: sevry

Ok, no more fish. I'll just have to go back to eating veal instead.

Oh, and a point about fishing: we're not doing anything to the fish that they aren't doing to each other! When one hits a bait on a hook, what do you think he's trying to do - save it from drowning?


39 posted on 11/19/2004 9:41:59 PM PST by Mongeaux
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To: YankeeFan

0.0001%


40 posted on 11/19/2004 11:55:45 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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