Maybe it speaks to the sicker part of my personality but . . . I want to eat sea kitten! “Fish” is boring but sea kitten – exotic. I think I’ll have some wild Alaska sea kitten with teriyaki glaze for dinner tomorrow night. Thanks, PETA! You may be nuttier than a pecan pie, but you do know your good eatin’.
In a related story, pigeons are now called “sky carp.”
Oh, I don’t know, “Chicken of the Sea Kittens” has a nice ring to it. Could be a band name!
Did anyone read the “Sea Kitten Stories” yet? What a hoot.
I showed the link to **Rhiannon8404 **and she asked, “Can we just eat the ones that God kills when people masturbate?”
I pointed out that God only kills sea-kittens when people masturbate in the shower (or the bathtub)…but that will still probably keep us all well fed, won’t it?
What would PETA be like if it weren’t ridiculous? Surely they didn’t start out that way. With their membership and organization, if they concentrated on things that actually made sense to most people, they might make some progress. (Things like making “factory farms” less hellish, or preventing used-up racehorses from being sold to be hung up by their hind feet and bled out in Mexican slaughterhouses.)
But carp is a fish, so technically wouldn’t they be “sky sea kittens?”
I stand corrected. PETA is not an animal rights group (and sure as hell not an animal welfare group). It’s a vegan pressure group that’s convinced too many that it really is just people who are for the ethical treatment of animals.
Are they serious?
“Tony the Trout is the smartest Sea Kitten in his school . . . When Tony is caught and fed to a precocious young child who, having eaten one mercury-filled sea kitten too many, falls to the bottom of his class, the irony is not lost on him.”
I think you accidentally transposed the r and the a there.
They are attention whores. This is a satirical campaign with some humor value in it (the stories are kinda funny, and the idea is ridiculous enough to be funny). It fails on two fronts:
- Most people are so convinced that eating fish != eating kittens that the satire will fail to move virtually everyone who hears of it; and
- Many people who eat fish but not mammals do so for sound philosophical/ethical reasons, based on observable behavioral differences between normal fish and mammals.
It succeeds on one front:
- It gets people talking about PETA, gets them in the news, makes PETA feel relevant and awesome to themselves. Just like Reverend Birdsong feels relevant and awesome to himself when he calls female pants-wearing college students whores.
Daniel
To which the scientists responded, “We’re not pedophiles - we just like having sex with what we call ‘school-age adults’.”
But, but… how about fish that live in lakes, rivers and other non oceanic water bodies? We still call them Sea Kittens? :dubious:
And just in cue too, right when I’m learning reef fish identification they throw my newly acquired skills in the ditch.
Me-Oh, that’s a red liped triggerfish.
PETA-No, it’s a sea kitten.
-Look a Clark’s Anemone fish!
-You mean the sea kitten?
-A juvenile blue ringed angelfish over there.
-Sea kitten…
-Oh, look at that, a hungry, angry tiger shark!
-Pfft, just another sea ki…
Soaks PETA guy in chum and punts him/her overboard
-Go play with the sea kitten.
I would eat kittens if I thought they would taste good and were commonly available. Just sayin’.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Reminds me of a particular exchange in that one Futurama episode:
“They have sea land sharks on land?”
“Yep. They’re called land sea land sharks. I tame them.”
[fangirl nitpick mode] It’s 'land sea lions.’ [/fangirl nitpick mode]
Mommy, I don’t wanna let kitty sleep in the bed with me anymore. He’s cold an’ dead an’ stinky!
This sounds serious!! Somebody call a carp!!!
I had kittens for dinner. Damn I feel like such a badass.
“Give a man a buckeye and he eats for a day. Teach a man to buckeye, and he eats for a lifetime.”