Now, I have to tell you, I have been to this Aquarium. And in one of their biggest tanks they have yellowtail, and sea bass, and several other fish I have personally tasted and found delicious. And I admit, when lunch time rolls around at this Aquarium, I find myself craving fish. And furthermore, once when I was there they had a lunch special of fresh halibut, battered and fried and served with fries and it was delicious!
I admit, there is something a bit creepy about serving fish at the aquarium cafeteria, just as it would be a bit creepy to serve lamb at a food stand outside the petting zoo. But something perverse inside me enjoys the little twist of irony inherent in the situation.
How about you? Would you eat fish at the Aquarium? Do you think people should be prevented from doing so?
I would absolutely eat fish at an aquarium, and it’s ridiculous to suggest that it’s any worse to eat a fish there than to eat a fish elsewhere. PETA needs to get back to their logically coherent campaigns, like their “Eat the Whales” campaign. This one makes no sense.
Hell, in Baltimore the Aquarium is downtown on the harbor, and is surrounded by seafood restaurants. Like Phillips. [Homer]Mmmm, Phillips.[/Homer] I have eaten burgers on a beef farm and taunted the cows while eating.
Madd Maxx: Boy, these burgers sure are delicious!
Cows: Moo.
Madd Maxx: And fresh too! Hey, Cow, ever wonder where your friend Bessie wandered off to?
Cow: Moo?
Madd Maxx: That’s right I’m eating Bessie-burgers!
Cow: That’s downright disturbing, right there. ::chews cud and wanders off::
Speaking as an American, a liberal, an atheist, a Democrat, and someone who believes in the right of individuals to choose their own lifestyles, including veganism, if that’s what they wish, I say …
Screw Peta.
Screw 'em with a rusty pole.
Twice.
They’re a bunch of wacko terrorist-hugging idiots.
They’re a bunch of liars.
And they probably are a bunch of hypocritical animal killers.
And that’s not hyperbole. See the episode on Peta of Showtime’s Penn & Teller: Bullshit.
In Boston, the aquarium has a nice explanation in the cafeteria about why they’re serving fish. It’s a good piece of work, well argued. Plus, of course, “No, we don’t serve the exhibits, ha, ha, ha.” Myself, I wouldn’t hesitate to eat fish there, though it’s not like I eat a ton of fish.
It’s possible to believe that fish are beautiful creatures, well-worth spending an afternoon watching or providing a habitat for in your own home, and that they’re also tasty.
I’ve been known to go pick up supplies for my own aquarium, and stop by on the way home to pick up some catfish.
Oh, I know. I don’t like *fish * much, but *shellfish * is to die for. And I have looked at a mega-lobster at an aquarium and thought “That’s a lot to eat.”
But I still couldn’t do it. I could do it at a Chinee restaurant with just a bit of squeamishness. My future FIL brought home a bunch of crabs one day and dumped them all alive into the sink so we could eat them…that was OK, too.
Just in aquariums it seems different. There’s a lot of rare unusual fish there and I don’t go around thinking about eating everything I see…plus I don’t really like most types of fish anyway.
Waitaminute. So PETA has spent all these years trying to “educate” us about where flesh food comes from (animals, duh!) and now they don’t want us to eat flesh food where we can see where it comes from?
Is anyone else confused as to what the hell they’re trying to accomplish here? It just makes no sense. If anything, walk around the cafeteria and tell children that the fish sticks they’re eating were peacefully swimming in THAT TANK RIGHT THERE 10 MINUTES AGO!!!
Seems like that would make more people stop eating the fish all on their own.
:smack: Oh, wait. Scratch that whole post. Erroneous assumption #1: PETA wants to make sense.
That’s what I mean. PETA may start with some wildly bizarre assumptions, and they may be dominated by wealthy, self-absorbed tweakers, but at least their campaigns usually make some sort of twisted sense if you grant them their base assumptions. (The “Eat the Whales” campaign is my personal favorite example of this: they seriously argued that eating whales is more humane than eating cows).
This one doesn’t make any sense, not even if you start with their wildly bizarre assumptions.
