Yeah, seriously -- I really don't understand this campaign. PETA has a chip on their shoulder. Why do they have to dumb down wildlife conservation by assuming people only save things if they're cute? This is beyond cute. It's insulting and weird.
my assumption is that they're going to suddenly turn all the images in their 'sea kitten' campaign into pictures depicting the horrors of some-cause-or-other-having-to-do-with-fish and thence make the web have their angry spore all over it.
that's why i'm re-serving this picture from my own computer.
I think they're objecting to fish-eating generally, whether the fish are harvested from the ocean or a farm. Their position is that it's unethical to slaughter anything with a central nervous system, and that's more or less where their argument ends.
Anthropomorphizing delicious fish in the current economic apocalypse, though, is probably going to do more to promote homophagy than reduce piscitarianism.
if they're going to carry through on their plans of getting women to raise farmed salmon in their uteruses to keep the oceans safe, they're going to have to start them young.
It probably means something that my reaction wasn't "I'm sorry... what?" but "Oh, that wouldn't work, the chromosome count alone would be all wrong..."
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Date: 2009-02-16 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 05:00 pm (UTC)that's why i'm re-serving this picture from my own computer.
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 08:12 pm (UTC)Anthropomorphizing delicious fish in the current economic apocalypse, though, is probably going to do more to promote homophagy than reduce piscitarianism.
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:10 pm (UTC)peta freaks me out
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:50 pm (UTC)or that they have a kids section to begin with
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-16 06:01 pm (UTC)fuck. no.
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Date: 2009-02-17 04:44 am (UTC)