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| The Fine Art of Food and Politics | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 27 2009, 04:16 PM (63 Views) | |
| Jeff | Jan 27 2009, 04:16 PM Post #1 |
Lord of Pie & BBWs
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There are just some areas of life politics should just mind its own business and leave well enough alone. Don't get me wrong - I'm appreciative of the FDA and all that they do, particularly netting the USA the lowest recall rates on food in the world and for good reason. My irritation stems from that one ecoterrorist group everyone loves to hate - *PETA - or as I like to call them "People Eating Tasting Animals". *People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. For those NOT familiar with these media attention-whores, these are the same people who had a woman strip down to the nude, get painted tiger-stripe-style and sit in a cage with a sign condemning... something, with these retards it's something new every week. These are people who basically say humans should be the product tester guinea pigs - sorry - and that meat eaters are evil, evil people with no souls. And people call me misanthropic? This organization is also a talking head for other ecoterrorist groups such as Earth Liberation Front (those morons who jammed metal spikes into a bunch of trees in hopes that the lumberjacks' chainsaws would break and possibly injure/kill someone) and the Animal Liberation Front (yes, those retards who break into pet stores and set them all the critters free). Oh and let's not forget the ever-so-tasteless ad comparing chicken farms to the Holocaust. Yeah, that's the type of people I'm talking about here. Anyways, what's the new complaint? Well, it was FAN's Rem who called my attention to it but it was so ludicrous that I thought she HAD to be joking. Turns out, no, she was being dead serious. PETA's new big deal has to do with fish - all fish, apparently as they make no distinction between, say, an angelfish or a salmon but as you'll soon see they did no research anyways, so WTF, right? The new campaign is called "Save the Sea Kittens", dear God did I really just type that? Sadly enough, yes. The idea they're working on is that if they give fish a more endearing name and make up some pseudoscience behind it that people will stop eating fish and encourage the rest of the world to conform to their nonsensical ways. Most people with a half-functioning brain would stop me and ask who in their right minds would do that. According to the website, 6100+ people have already made public fools of themselves by leaping on the bandwagon with them. So, yes, they've taken to calling fish "Sea Kittens" because, as their own site - http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/index.asp - says, in short, that you wouldn't hurt a kitten, why would you hurt a *ahem* "Sea Kitten". This comes off as purely insufferable to both the English-speaker and biologist in me. Before I even GET to tearing asunder PETA's arguments, let's get a few things straight. 1) You can't just put "Sea" in front of something and make it a viable term. Second, a "sea kitten" just sounds like the term one would ascribe to an infant sea lion. 2) A cat is a 4-legged mammal bearing fur, fangs and a tail. These creatures WOULD eat fish - oh, excuse me - "sea kittens" at the drop of a hat. Clearly PETA may have an objection but the "land kittens" clearly do not. 3) If you're going to kick off a propaganda campaign, be sure to fact check first. Okay, here's some *cough-cough* "facts" from PETA's website. 1) "Like their surface-dwelling cousins, the land kittens, sea kittens enjoy being petted. Their lack of arms makes it difficult for them to pet back, but they often gently rub against each other as a sign of affection." ... Oh my God. Where do I even start with this pig slop? Felines and fish have no known viable links anywhere in history as biology understands it. This comes from a little phenomena called the "Cambrian Explosion" and if PETA had done any research they'd known just how WRONG the term "surface-dwelling cousins" is in this context. Second, no. Just no. Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. If two fish so much as touch each other, it's probably due to an accident - fish do not understand "Affection". Period. Fish are VERY prone to eating each other and their own offspring at the drop of a hat. They do not recognize familial bonds of any type. There is nothing cute or endearing about a FISH. 2) "Contrary to popular belief, the technical term for sea kitten offspring is "baby sea kitties," not "caviar." Many sea kittens build nests where they can raise their baby sea kitties, and others collect small rocks off the sea floor to make widdle hiding pwaces where they can rest." Dawww. Da babeh talkey in this phwase makes me want to commit homicides all ovah thewe witing staff. First off, not just ANY fish eggs can be caviar - usually just sturgeon and salmon. Sorry, PETA, not all fish are created equal. And while fish MAY create dens to hide in, most fish lack the skill or know-how to "build" a nest, usually opting to hide in plants instead. Oh, and they don't really care for their offspring. Baby fish are as disposable to adult fish as they are to humans. As I said before, adult fish will eat their own young if they happen to hatch when they're hungry. Sorry, babies, that's just the big ol' meatgrinder of life in action. And finally, 3, because I just can't take much more of this) Some sea kittens tend well-kept gardens. They encourage the growth of tasty algae and weed out the types that they don't like. It is particularly tragic when people eat these sea kittens, as their precious little gardens become wild and overgrown in their absence. ... Wait, what? I had to re-read that three times to remind myself that these retards REALLY ARE taking about fish. Are they talking about - oh, I dunno - ALGAE EATERS?! They don't "tend" to gardens, they crap all over the place like other fish do which happens to be conducive to algae growth. And "weed out the types they don't like"?! I'm sorry, but having a central nervous system does not mean you know jack, as PETA themselves has proven on more than one occasion today alone. Wild fish rarely have the opportunity to BE picky because the picky eaters die FIRST in nature - humans are the only exceptions to the rule. Besides, HOW would they weed them out? With their little Sea Kitten claws or something? THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK!!! Okay, so what's my point? My point is that if someone AT PETA wanted to take a stance and say "I don't eat fish", well, goodie for you. That leaves me for ME, because I LOVE fish - they're damned tasty. However, coming out and calling people evil kitten-murdering psychos for eating something we've eaten since humans first existed and attempting to "justify" it with a load of hokey is flat-out malicious. This whole campaign is misleading, silly, infantile and if it DID pass they'd cause far more harm than they could fathom. Fishing is an enormous industry in several major cities around and the USA, let alone the ENTIRE WORLD. The way the economy is right now we can't really AFFORD to let go of something with that huge a base. Can you IMAGINE if they tried this sort of thing in a place that's basically dependent on fish for survival like, let's say, Japan? It'd be a madhouse! Bottom line? If you don't eat fish - fine. I really don't care either way. I do eat fish and I have no intention of changing that anytime soon. Trying to tell me that I'm a kitten-murdering sociopath because you made up some nonsense and a cutesy-decorated website just ignites my ire and reminds me why I hate PETA and their ilk. FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS GET DUPED BY STUPID PROPAGANDA MOVEMENTS! Screw you guys, I'm going fishing. Or Sea Kittening. Or whatever. I'm putting a hook through SOMETHING'S head and I'm gonna like it! 
Edited by Jeff, Jan 27 2009, 04:17 PM.
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| Rem | Jan 27 2009, 05:44 PM Post #2 |
Why yes, I do like snickerdoodles.
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Not to mention you can create your own "Sea Kitten" on their website. http://www.fishinghurts.com/ *barf* Also, here's some of the "bedtime stories" that they plan to have their members read to little kids. What. Frigging. Garbage. "Tara the Tuna is frisky and playful, and she loves to squeeze herself into tight spaces and snuggle up close to her Sea Kitten pals. But the conditions on the Sea Kitten factory farm where she lives are too cramped even for Tara. With no room to swim and no chance to escape, Tara looks forward to the end." There are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to begin. EMO FISH. |
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| Root | Jan 27 2009, 06:15 PM Post #3 |
The Speaker for the Dead
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I honestly don't want to believe some of this garbage exists. Thank you Jeff for poking such fun at it, though. You don't even need it explained for it to not make sense. Seriously, the name "sea kitten" itself looks like it was thrown together in about five minutes. |
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| The1Kobra | Jan 27 2009, 07:06 PM Post #4 |
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Of course, PETA does all of that, yet has no issues killing animals, or 'euthanizing' them when it is convenient. http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549/ I actually recall that PETA is considered a terrorist organization in some countries, I know that ELF and ALF are in the US. http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=247266 Though, I have to say, I don't think the sea-kittens bit has surprised me at all, in fact, I take it that a lot of people aren't even trying to look for the truth anymore in favor of support of whatever organization they are part of. I suppose they have to delude themselves before they can attempt to delude the rest of the world. Part of me wonders if PETA members actually believe the bile that they sprout out, and know what they're saying is false yet are trying to dishonestly persuade people to fulfill their agenda. It's kind of scary from a psychological perspective I suppose, that people would knowingly accept what they know is false only to support whatever organization they call themselves a member of, and I don't think that psyche is restricted to PETA either. |
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| Dietaku | Jan 27 2009, 11:34 PM Post #5 |
Grade A /B/tard
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 Alf? A terrorist? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! |
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