# PETA says : Don't call them fish ! Call them sea kittens ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998 "2009-01-12T22:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/1 "2009-01-12T22:54:23Z")
[PETA](http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/) has come up with a new [idea](http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/about.asp). Call fish sea kittens, and no one will eat them anymore ! After all, you wouldn’t eat kittens would you ? \* PETA does seem determined to be a parody of itself. - As someone elsewhere said, this obviously means we should kill off dolphins - they eat kittens ! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/2 "2009-01-12T23:00:11Z")
You mean I’m not supposed to eat kittens? Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/3 "2009-01-12T23:02:34Z")
They taste _so cute!_. ETA: And yes, the PETA site is fucking ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/4 "2009-01-12T23:05:14Z")
That just makes me want to 'em _more_. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/5 "2009-01-12T23:10:45Z")
Mmm…sea kitten and cucumber rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/6 "2009-01-12T23:13:56Z")
If PETA are trying to turn rational people away from themselves, they’re going about it the right way. Being concerned about animal welfare is one thing; voluntarily associating with delusional dimwittery is entirely another. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/7 "2009-01-12T23:17:39Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Mmm…sea kitten and cucumber rolls. So you prefer your sea kitten raw? I don’t mind it once in a while but I like my sea kitten broiled with lemon butter and every so often a nicely battered and fried sea kitten is good, too, with fries and Hush Puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/8 "2009-01-12T23:21:30Z")
It’s a shame [Freddie](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/lobley/Katie%20and%20Freddie/IMG_1805.jpg) and [Katie](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/lobley/Katie%20and%20Freddie/DSCN1417.jpg) are all grown up now because I could sure use something to eat when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/9 "2009-01-12T23:31:59Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > If PETA are trying to turn rational people away from themselves, they’re going about it the right way. > Being concerned about animal welfare is one thing; voluntarily associating with delusional dimwittery is entirely another. Well, PETA doesn’t admit it, but they’re not an animal welfare group. They’re an animal _rights_ group; their aims are entirely political, and directed mostly at protesting humans’ _use_ of animals as food, hide, guinea pigs, etc etc . The treatment of _individual_ animals is not of great concern to them. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/10 "2009-01-12T23:32:11Z")
For dinner tonight, we’re having Atlantic farm-raised sea kitten grilled with some bottled galangal curry sauce atop basmati rice. That’s some mewing good feline seafood, there. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/11 "2009-01-12T23:37:40Z")
Had some sea kitten this very evening. As long as you take the little claws out, delicious! Every time PETA says something stupid I eat two portions of meat at my next meal. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/12 "2009-01-12T23:38:55Z")
At another forum I visit, it was proposed that cats should be renamed to “land fish”. That would make lions “land sharks”, sea lions “sea land sharks” and catfish “land fish sea kittens”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/13 "2009-01-12T23:43:28Z")
PETA at this point is a loudmouthed marketing organization without a cause. Still, this proposal would really change mafia movies. Imagine “Luca Brasi sleeps with the sea kittens.” ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/14 "2009-01-12T23:45:41Z")
Which makes a perverse kinda sence…after all, dolphins kind of taste like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/15 "2009-01-12T23:48:27Z")
Wasn’t it people from PETA who got into trouble recently for a hate campaign against a group of scientists - including spreading rumours that some of them were pedophiles? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/16 "2009-01-12T23:48:36Z")
I can’t remember which radio show I was listening to this morning, maybe Bob and Tom, they were talking about this as it related to some high school in South Dakota called Spearfish High School. One of the guys on the show said he wouldn’t be opposed to PETA’s idea if the high school could keep the name SpearSeaKittens. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/17 "2009-01-12T23:53:31Z")
Urmpth, delicious kittens… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/18 "2009-01-12T23:56:38Z")
I’m wondering if PETA feeds on itself. After all, you have a bunch of radical animal lovers who probably yes yes each other’s ideas. They’re in a fishbowl. There’s no outside influence who can say, “umm, guys, look…” ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/19 "2009-01-13T00:00:14Z")
I’m about to eat a nice sea-kitten fillet with a dry rub of salt, garlic, pepper and dill, pan fried. I’ve always thought sea kitten goes well with dill… ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998/20 "2009-01-13T00:03:27Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I’m wondering if PETA feeds on itself. After all, you have a bunch of radical animal lovers who probably yes yes each other’s ideas. They’re in a fishbowl. No, No! They are in a _sea kitten_ bowl. Get the nomenclature right. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-says-dont-call-them-fish-call-them-sea-kittens/480998.md?page=2)