What? Kittens love to eat sea kittens! Is PETA promoting cannibalism?
Really – does anyone take PETA seriously? Their just attention whores who come up with with ridiculous idea after another solely so people will talk about them.
It’s not entirely ridiculous. Well, I mean, yes, it is, but I understand their underlying point, which is that the reason we eat fish and not cats is because we’ve divided animals into “animals that we love and care if they suffer”, and “Animals that we’re perfectly willing to let suffer”, and that the division is arbitrary, so why not treat all animals the way we treat “cute” ones?
Well, there’s the fine point that a dog or a cat (yeah, I know, just go with me here) can, in some degree or another, have feelings of reciprocity towards their owners. A little empathy if you’d like. They are able to show affection in a way no fish is capable of doing, with all that about having a brain somewhere in between a worm and a frog, you know?
This “Sea kitten” designation is pissing me off, but not for the reasons it’s pissing most people off; “Why shouldn’t I eat fish? I like fish…”
I’m the odd vegetarian story, by circumstance. Parents Marine biologists, always around fish fish fish, so, when, at 11, saw fish on Dad’s boat brought up and dying, age 11, made a connection with killing, and decided I didn’t want to kill to eat. My decision, and, a long row to hoe for decades in differentiating that and learning how to eat otherwise. I still don’t eat fish as a personal decision not to take life.
But, Sea Kittens? That is really insulting to intelligence, a stupid tactic. Fish are the beings they are, and the sea is teeming with all the ruthless wonder that nature has to offer. That life doesn’t have to be reduced to Cute to be appreciated.
I have now become a Misadorableanthrozoomorphoticatarian. Sheesh!
If children are the intended audience, I find it insulting to their intelligence. That’s the most patronizing, sanctimonious and just plain inept attempt at childrens’ writing I’ve ever seen. I wonder if these PETA folks have any significant “zero-earther” crossovers (or whatever they’re called), because whoever wrote that sure isn’t a sympathetic writer for that audience. The Soviets and the Nazis had more effective childrens’ propaganda.
ETA again: and if it’s satire, it’s utterly inept on that front as well and still shows a real contempt for kids.
I don’t have those divisions; they are all fascinating, beautiful and potentially tasty.
This is why the world misses George Carlin.
Won’t somebody think of poor Jessica Simpson? She’s never going to get this straight.
OTOH, why not treat all animals as those we’re willing to let suffer?
Any why isn’t PETA complaining about the mistreatment of plants, too? After all Carrot juice is murder
I’d pay real money to see a paparazzi picture of her on some red carpet somewhere holding a spangled handbag with a gasping fish protruding from it.
I’m thinking about stopping by the animal shelter tomorrow and picking up some fuzzy salmon to throw on the grill.
OK, I am posting just to ensure some good info comes from PETA’s insanity.
This link is from a show called the Gruen Transfer, which analyses in a very funny way how ads work. It has a mock ad segment, where 2 different ad agencies are given an impossible brief - in this case, to sell people on eating whale meat.
(hijack. I include this one where the brief was to persuade Australians to invade New Zealand, cos it amuses me. Really, the show is worth tracking down.)
And PETA? Just lost the plot entirely.
This.
Remember - these are the morons who urged Ben & Jerry’s to use human milk.
They just don’t understand that it makes them look like idiots.
But it led to a great thread here on potential ice cream flavors.
Linky?
I’m sick of waiting for 300 seconds at a time for the damn search engine to bring up every post made in the last 10 years or not find anything at all. Sure, ben and ice are too short, but you’d think Jerry, cream, human, milk, and/or peta would be in that thread in some combination.
I used to have sea-kittens for pets.
But when I tried to make them use the litterbox they died.
Linky. My favorite was “Banana Nicole Smith.” 
Thanks! That was hillarious!
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Mother” has to be my favorite! 
Remember your sea kitten facts. But also remember you may not want to pet the Great White Sea Kitten.
What does PETA call oysters and clams? I like eating them…maybe stillborn sea kittens?