LOL, well then I am hungry for some sea kittens!

It’s SEA Kittens, not fish!!!  Is you ignant?

If eating animals makes me evil then so be it, but I am hungry for some steak and some fish, mmm mmm mmm.

Mr Comment:
’... Because it is one of the issues where the two sides refuse to acknowledge any of the actual issues being discussed. ...’

I’ve been interested in this congeries of issues for some time.  I find them both morally urgent and intellectually interesting.  There are a lot of books and articles which argue one of the several sides of the issues with recognition of the others.  However, that’s not what we have in this forum—we have mostly guffawing, which means we are starting way back from the point where sides can recognize other sides.  This is a fact that PETA and the ALF recognize.  You have to bust the humor, make people angry or at least uncomfortable, just to get the issue on the table.  So to speak.

I always love how some PETA @$$hole will throw paint on some lady’s fur coat—while he/she is wearing either a down parka (made from dead geese and ducks) or a wool coat, or some garment sewed in the sweatshops of the Third World, containing lots of artificial materials made from petroleum products…So if they won’t wear leather, but shoes from the sweatshops….

F***ing hypocrites!  Somebody throws paint on MY wife he better have his affairs in order—I believe if you are assaulted you have the right to respond, and if it’s with deadly force, well, that’s the @$$hole’s look-out, not mine.

I’ll never forget how a PETA activist once tried to get me to sign a petition to add an amendment to the Florida state consitution.  It would ban keeping sows in relatively small cages, a practice which had actually been discontinued already by every farm in the state of Florida.  When I said no, the guy stated that pigs needed to be free.  I said “pigs, like in bacon, right?”  The priceless part was my 4yr old daughter saying, “Daddy, I love bacon”, just as innocently as a 4yr old can.  The look of abject horror on the guy’s face as he recoiled was something I will never forget!

I have some pretty big disagreements with PETA—I once carried on an extended argument about feral cats by email with Ingrid Newkirk, which was quite an experience—but I have to admit that they are tremendously effective, and the most powerful tools in their toolkit seems to be their various talents for annoying and outraging people, often by making some sort of seemingly ridiculous move.  The responses in this forum occur almost everywhere where the subject of PETA arises, almost word for word.  The laughter dies down, and the issue remains and won’t go away. 

Whereas if I, seeking to protect sentient beings like non-human animals from gratuitous torture and death, were to gravely intone the Dhammapada, you’d ignore me and forget I ever said anything.  PETA’s got something.

Hey! Pass me some more of that smoked sea-kitten, will you?  And then some cream cheese made from milk robbed from a calf’s mother.  It’s all going on my bagel, Yum!

Yup, we all know Oscar and Nemo are super-cute fish—then there’s Ariel’s buddy in Little Mermaid.

I had a PETA nut tell me I was cruel to set mousetraps.  I said, when I find mouse droppings in my house I’m gettin’ the mice.  She said she finds them on her countertop and just wipes them off.  YECH!!!!!!!

Naturally we would never eat at HER house, or anything she prepared and brought somewhere.

Fish eat fish, seals eat fish, whales eat fish, fish eat seals, and sometimes whales eat whales.  So, unless a species is endangered, why shouldn’t we?

“Specism” is specious.

PETA has has long since sacrificed legitimacy at the altar of the splashy big headline.  their over the top antics do cause some friction in the animal rights community because the smaller, less showy organizations get overshadowed along with their work.  that doesnt negate the fact that PETA makes some pointed, salient points.  naaaaamely…

why are humans so arbitrary about the animals that we eat and kill?  slaughter a giant rat, slice a fish, violate vermin, but dear god, you go near by precious puppy and i will do you in.

the logic is that is its perfectly acceptable to kill anything that is unattractive or at least unattractive and unable to suck up to human masters. isnt the idea of sea puppies more telling about the recipients of the marketing than those that would do the marketing?  what deserves to live or die? and for those that deserve to live, what the should the quality of that life be?

i find that its impossible to determine the relative value of one life form to the next, and that if one living thing deserves to be respected then all of them do.  and im not being impractical in the slightest.  there is a way to kill with respect, and eat other living things.  indeed life feeds on life.

the living things that become our foodstuffs are reciprocating the lack of respect they received at our hands by redelivering the poisons of their creators back to their original source.  the circle is complete and justice is served cold.

What is this? “Talking points”??

Repeating a dismissive mantra like “PETA is insane” doesn’t provide any sort of insight and it certainly doesn’t give anyone a peer at PETAs true intentions. Claiming to know whether Peta “really means it” is also a bit of a dubious claim because I’ve seen the text and if you read it literally then you are right and if you allow for satire or any sort of humor then I am most likely right. I am basing my evidence the images of cuddly cartoon fish playing around the text in the actual PETA site, not in a secondhand report.

And on your side note: whether or not being raised as farm animals as an excuse to propagate the species makes me wonder why we should worry about the lot of chickens ability to survive worldwide without us “caring” for them.

We don’t owe the chickens a living, and raising them for slaughter doesn’t really sound like a super exchange…if you are trying to paint the mass production of chicken argument as a charitable act.

PETA is insane.  They have gone from protecting animals from inhumane treatment to outright hatred of humans.  The sea kitten crap is not simply “new marketing”, they really, really believe it.

If people stopped eating beef altogether, or pork, or even poultry, for the matter, cows, pigs and chickens would quite simply cease as a species.  No one is going to pay for the upkeep on a cow (Hindis excluded) if they can’t drink its milk or eat it.

No, it’s no joke. PETA really has gone insane. It’s been taken over by extreme misanthropic radicals.

Indeed, the PETA of today bears no resemblance whatsoever to the PETA of its founders in 1980: An organization dedicated to the humane treatment of laboratory animals in medical research.

Today’s PETA veered far away from the ethics of the Humane Society, SPCA, Anti-Vivisection Society and other animal-welfare organizations with its radical beliefs. It rejects the idea of animals as property (That means if you have a pet, there’s something wrong with you). 

PETA opposes all forms of they call “speciesism” (They equate with racism), animal testing, animal product eating (They’re extreme radical vegans), factory farming, and hunting (PETA has become a favorite whipping boy of the NRA), as well as the use of animals in entertainment or as clothing, furniture, or decoration (I’m not a fan of wearing furs, either—but mainly because furs are status symbols among the super-rich).

While PETA had a legitimate cause when it was founded—the treatment of lab animals—it has since moved farther and farther away from the mainstream animal-welfare community and in recent years have become more and more bizarre in its radicalism.

Now, I can say without fear of contradiction that PETA has crossed the line into outright misanthopism—fear and loathing of humans—with its new, highly elitist campaign to convince everyone to switch to a vegan diet, which is every bit as unbalanced nutritionally as an all-meat diet—and, for that matter, the junk-food diet that far too many Americans eat.

These radicals have gone too far and must be opposed vigorously.

Sea Kittens is obviously PETA having a sense of humor. It is an old joke about people not wanting to kill the cute pet.

It is such a drag to have people take everything so seriously. Maybe you should write an editorial about the crazy things they said last night on the Colbert Report. That guy is insane. What a looney.

It sucks to have to explain a joke, but it sucks more to listen to people talk incessantly because they didn’t realize it was humor.

In all seriousness, I am a little miffed that this column was written as “humour”.  To me, this is no different than the thumpers who believe the earth is 6,000 years old, the Federal Gov’t is out to enslave us, etc.  If this was a story about the nuts on the far right we would be ridiculing them, and not in a “humourous’ way.  Just because these PETA looneys are on the left, they shouldn’t be given a free pass on the “eccentricity”.

One of these days, one of the PETA nuts is going to let some monkey packed full of Ebola, et al, out of his research cage, and then we are all going to be screwed.

Calling fish sea kittens makes as much sense as calling dead (foreign) kids collateral damage.

No need to worry PI. While most people think kittens are cute and cuddly, a LOT of people HATE cats, so you did the world a favor!

I’m starting to regret that catfish I had for dinner yesterday.