NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Four billboards sponsored by the People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals have caused some controversy in Newport Beach
Wednesday, NBC4 reported.
The billboards, which depict model Carre Otis dressed as a mermaid covered
with scales and paired with the tagline, "Fish Are Friends, Not Food!,
" are part of PETA's national "Fish Empathy Project."
The project hopes to convince residents of the seaside Southland town that
fish are not only intelligent, but eating fish may hurt consumers due to
the possibly dangerous levels of mercury in seafood.
"There has been evidence that children have been slowing down mentally and
physically, having physical problems that were due directly to eating too
much tuna fish," Lisa Lange, a PETA spokeswoman, said.
Some local fisherman like their fish as food, however.
"The oceans pretty much cleanse themselves," fisherman Mike McNamara said. "There's a lot of fishing in the Great Lakes where I'm from as well.
It's surprising that I would hear that."
PETA maintains that fish are interestig and intelligent, much like dogs
and cats.
"Fish are not swimming vegetables, they're complex and intelligent animals
who feel fear and pain, just like we do," said PETA President Ingrid E.
Newkirk, in a PETA press release. "We're asking people to get hooked on
compassion and go vegetarian."
Yeah? How the fuck do they think they got here? What, the human race didn't eat?
I don't understand this shit at all. We're not the only fucking life on this planet that eats other life.
This is just stupid. FISH? They're FISH. Man has been eating fish for HOW LONG NOW. How many humans and other life have depended on said fish to survive?
Also, last time I checked plants felt pain too. I wonder what they would say to that if they found that out? Oh wait, probably nothing because they have thier heads stuck up thier asses
so far they couldn't hear you.
Go fuck yourselves PETA.
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Anonymous2005-08-19 0:04
I'd like to see PETA campaign for the rights of insects and pest. It's kinda ironic thateven though PETA is about animal rights, they never campaign against the killing of rats through pest control of the right of the garbage fly.
That why I always see animal rights campaign having no substabce.
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Anonymous2005-08-19 2:14
Animals eat other animals, I don't really see it as an issue of compassion. That's just the way in which the biological process of the earth has existed for many millions of years. There's nothing inherently wrong about it, the idea that eating other living being's is somehow wrong is a creation of humans. The only reason why cannibalism is looked upon as innapropriate is because it runs counter to the requirements necessary for a functioning civilization and it just is unpleasant. But then again, life isn't supposed to be pleasant.
I'm sure the pro-slavery cause chanted something like "Man has been enslaving the inferior races for HOW LONG NOW." Simply because something is tradition means it's justifiable? Does that apply to all the Biblical genocide that was justified by the book? Does it apply to the Jews right to the Holyland? Does it apply to Germany, England's, and Rome's global conquest? What about female inferiority and them having less rights than men? What about racism? These things have been around for thousands of years, and you want to change them now?
Civilization matures, it learns, it forms new philosophies on what is right and what is wrong. Using the "but we used to do it" excuse is fucking stupid. Do you sack pigeons and roast them when you go to the beach? No, because this isn't the fucking 1600s. Do you shoot animals you see while you're sitting on the train? No, because this isn't the fucking 1800s. Times are changing buddy, and you will change with them whether you like it or not, so when it's 2040 and the truth finally comes out on where all that cancer came from, you'll say “damn I should have listened to that guy on 4chan.”
This is why noone takes PETA seriously. It has more to do with being a militant fucktard than preventing cruelty to animals. See the RSPCA for comparison.
What the fuck? Comparing slavery to eating fish? You must be even more of a moron then you sound.
Eating fish isn't a tradition. Eating fish is how you survive. Eating fish is what they had to do to live. Eating ANYTHING is what you do to LIVE you dumbfuck.
It may not be ancient times anymore. A time when we had to go out and hunt for our own food. But that doesn't mean it's okay to go around attacking people who eat other animals to, you know, LIVE. Especially under something as stupid as 'oh they feel pain!!'. Because frankly, alot of things you eat is going to feel pain when they die. Even your special plants.
I'm sorry, but try again and this time dont try to compare things that have nothing to do with each other. k?
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Anonymous2005-08-19 16:51
>>8
Haha. I don't even know why I waste my time with morons like you. Eat your meat, die when you're 35, one less douchebag on 4chan.
I want to see a campaign against the consumption of vegetables. Plants feel pain! They are intelligent. Lets us not eat anything at all but drink water only.
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Anonymous2005-08-19 21:23
>>9
Yea, we'll eat meat, stay healthy and live till YOUR 35. Its kind of funny you never see any older healthy vegitarians. (You rememeber that one old surfing vegetarian lady on tv? Looked like she was a walking corpse). Our bodies need meat, we need it for our muscles. We also need vegetables, fruits, and breads. You cant just eat vegetables, its not good for you.
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Anonymous2005-08-19 21:23
and you'll live till your 35^^
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Anonymous2005-08-19 22:30
Fish are delicious friends. Fuck those PETA fags.
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Anonymous2005-08-20 10:59
PETA is an example of whats bad of the hippie culture.
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Anonymous2005-08-21 7:41
I'm a level 5 vegan. I won't eat anything that casts a shadow.
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Anonymous2005-08-21 10:07
It's nice to see how the open source hippies/talibans who'll say even Bill Gates' farts are worse than Richard Stallman's are so easily influenced against an NGO by powerful food corporation lobbies through the media and the intarweb.
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Anonymous2005-08-22 1:06
>>16
There are examples of what's good with the hippie culture?
>>19
Because of hippie culture, gays and minorities have vastly more rights than they did 40 years ago. And yes, this is a good thing.
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Unhappy Negro!TMPLpxa2NM2005-08-22 16:45
>>20
purely debatable. As a black man I would put my trust in a guntoting commie before some weak-kneed pacifist 'moonchylde' twit. I want to still be LIVING when the reparations come rolling in.
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Anonymous2005-08-22 17:16
>>17
oh, oh yeah? well I'm a level 6 vegan, I don't even breathe! Think of how many micro organisms are slain by your foul nosehairs attempting to float peacefully through the air! Oh no, wait, just think of how many are on the keyboard! Well, I am dismantling my keyboard and computer at the end of this post, you'll see no more hypocrasy from this experienced vegan! Level 7 veganism here I come, and then......SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT! Goodbye you filthy meatbags, I'm gonna be like Q or something, and fuck with alla ya'll while you can't do anything back. That'll learn you to doubt the power of VEGAN!
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Anonymous2005-08-23 2:10
actually do you think PETA exists as a plant, to badmouth vegans and animal righters?
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Vinz2005-08-23 18:15
>>23
Nah I'm sticking with "They're just stupid hippies that need to burninate."
They sort of remind me of turn-of-the-century anarchists without bombs, staging all these showy demonstrations when they only believe in around 10% of what they're spewing. Don't know too many actual animal rightists that like PeTA at all, but the vegans're stupid enough to buy all that bullshit. So I'd say they deserve some serious badmouthing. (It's not like you could meet vocal vegans who are really about the core beliefs anyway, good ones are too scared to 'come out' now thanks to PeTArds. You'll just have to listen for people who ask for dishes with no animal products and don't fly off the handle when told they don't carry X dish vegan style.)
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Anonymous2005-08-23 20:08
Didn't we decide like ten years ago that mercury posioning from fish was largely over-reaction? K.
PETA has always been ridiculous, and the biggest problem is that plenty of normal, sane vegetarians let these assholes represent them. There are plenty of reasonable vegans that have seen or read about what goes on in meat farms and it bothers them so they make the reasonable descision not to consume the product.
PETA has more to do about getting worked up about a cause and attracting the moral hobbyists than anything else.
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Anonymous2005-08-25 9:46
who cares what happens in meat farms. the animals die in the end, don't they?
>>28
bump for HOLY TRUTH
Even templars fear your righteousness!
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Vinz2005-08-28 6:38
Also, I hope the first alien race we ever make contact with are sentient plants. THAT'LL LEARN'EM. (If they're even around by then, lol...I know I'm certainly planning a spree or two once I got the resources.)
Vegans define themselves through what they eat because the rest of them is empty, lifeless and dead.
They have no personality that goes beyond what they eat, they never change and they do everything in their power to piss other people off so they can keep their vegan world for themselves.
Seriously, a less militant approach would work 1000 times better.
These quotes cannot possibly be real. HOLY SHIT. I feel like I'm going to be sick merely because I'm the same species as these idiots.
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Anonymous2005-09-18 14:00
I'd really like to know how PETA have come to be so huge. They seem to have quite a lot of cash.
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Anonymous2005-09-18 14:21
>>5
It always pains me to see intelligent people who beliefs are crap. Stop holding onto equality like some sort of holy grail. It doesn't exist and cannot possibly ever exist. If your religious, I recommend you read about evolution. If you believe in evolution, then I suggest you consider how society works through the glasses of evolution.
I've learnt that the hardest truths to see are those right in front of you, the beliefs that you hold so sacred that you don't question them. I suggest you strictly question what you find unquestionable.
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Anonymous2005-09-18 22:58
i'm scared of eating fish because of the mercury. i would however like to eat a member of peta. wearing a fur coat. with puppy slippers. no, real puppies.
Can a Flounder loan me a Five? A Tuna a Ten?
Friend my ass!
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Anonymous2005-10-19 13:50
I live japan
I ｌｉｋｅ Amerca！
こんにちは
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Anonymous2005-10-20 19:55
Inside the earth, I'm hearing fishes fishes.
I'm dedicated to feeding meat to vegetarians and vegans.
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Anonymous2005-10-21 5:35
Fish heads, fish heads rolly polly fish heads.
Eat'm all up!
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Anonymous2005-10-22 5:38
>>39
Nah... People contain all kinds of diseases... Especially smelly hippies who sleep outside and have sex with anything that moves.
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crasher352005-10-28 19:44
I don't get PETA pushing people to eat more vegetables. If more people ate more vegetables, that means more farm land needed to produce those vegetables. The more farmland needed, the more deforestation. The more deforestation, the more animals die. So how is that treating animals ethically? Okay, so we don't eat you, but we'll bulldoze your homes. Call me crazy but that's fucked up.
Not to mention that farming produces greater problems for wild animals, such as pollution through pesticides and fertilizer. Also, think about all of those rabbits, gophers, and other small animals gowing into the fields to grab themselves some cabbage or lettuce, maybe some carrots and then they get mauled by the giant tractors and plows used to harvest the food.
I think they're better off dying humanely at the ends of a cattle farmer than being crushed and torn apart by heavy machinery, atleast that way we put their bodies to good use and their death has some meaning.
I think when it comes to PETA it's a lose-lose situation. The only way we can ever be completely humane to animals is if we starve ourselves.
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Anonymous2005-10-30 9:54
>>47
Interesting ideas, but grazing land takes more space. Not to mention you need to feed the cows as well.
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Anonymous2005-10-30 11:32
>>47
YOu're stupid. Don't you realize that for every calorie you can get through meat, 1000 calories of possible food are wasted in the form of animal feed?
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Anonymous2005-11-04 11:48
Yeah, calories in low quality grains that are not fit for humans to eat. Post again when you've finished your trough of animal feed.
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Vinz2005-11-06 10:47
>>49
Stupid is as stupid does, stupid.
How about we just make Soylent Green out of vegans...they got enough soy content in them for a family of 8 for life.
These animals would naturally graze. Before granaries they just moved them to and fro. Taking them all into one area just knocks out the grass there for awhile. Then they move to another area and eat all that before coming back.
If you really want to convince anyone you should've tackled the Water question. You'd lose on the chicken and pig arguments, but win where it counts with the larger cattle.
Also you could point out sheep are really dumb and incredibly easy prey. Pigs and cows will fight back, sheep won't. (In other words if they weren't domesticated they'd probably be extinct by now.) Of course, one could always argue back, that this shows they are clearly inferior to any other mammal, and therefore may as well accept their new fate, hey at least their entire species didn't die out right? Cows're dumb too but at least they're try and kick something that bites them.
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Anonymous2005-11-21 15:55
PETA SUCKS ASS
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Anonymous2005-11-21 22:32
What does Hufu TM taste like? Does it taste like human flesh?
HufuTM is designed to resemble, as humanly possible, the taste and texture of human flesh. If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken.What does Hufu TM taste like? Does it taste like human flesh?
HufuTM is designed to resemble, as humanly possible, the taste and texture of human flesh. If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken.
I am a level 10 Meatan... I only eat things that are self aware...
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Anonymous2005-12-09 23:09
I try to eat meat that has been treated with antibiotics and steroids. I feel cheated otherwise.
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Anonymous2005-12-22 22:13 (sage)
>>53
Hufu TM tastes like sperm which is why you like it so much.
if you are a girl => YOU=HO
if you are a guy => YOU=FAGGOT
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Anonymous2005-12-22 22:54
>>16
PETA ain't hippies. They're opposite. They're animal rights fascists, that's not hippy.
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Anonymous2005-12-23 3:04
>>59
truth. If PeTA were full of hippies it would look like the South Park episode. In real life they have a corporate image, small multistory office for themselves in Norfolk, with lots of little "Franchises" spread throughout the US and the UK. Mainly because no other country is stupid enough to put up with them for long. If they were real hippies they would garner positive responses, even by some Teddy/Taft conservatives I reckon.
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Anonymous2005-12-23 3:40 (sage)
PETA is gay
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Anonymous2005-12-25 14:52
I am eating massive meat for Christmas. PETA can blow my weenie.
Wow, y'know, it's funny, becuase my great grandfather of 86 years has been eating meat for, oh, I'd say about 86 years, and he clearly didn't die when he was 35. DIPSHIT!
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anti-chan2006-01-03 2:48
Bloody red meat was actually the catalyst that super charged human evolution. Obviously, PETA doesn't know this.
Rolly Polly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women.
Yeeaahh
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Anonymous2006-01-05 7:24 (sage)
vegetarians look pale and sickly.
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Anonymous2006-01-05 10:11
As a vegetarian and animal rights type, I find PETA and such groups to be annoying as Hell.
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Anonymous2006-01-05 16:35
Anybody here eat whale? I used to when it was available in California (canned). I like it.
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Anonymous2006-01-05 17:30
We have in alaska; only the natives eat the crap, though.
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Anonymous2006-01-05 21:42
It's not crap. The canned stuff used to be very good. Pure meat like beef. Low fat and high protein. The natives up where you are have health problems and bad teeth. One of those hos wanted me to bof her. Yuk!
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Anonymous2006-01-24 16:03
you nerds are just jealous since you have IBS and constipation from stuffing ramen, pop, fast food and other filth into your corny white face. that said peta are corporate shit and their ad campaigns suck. have a nice death, meat-eating fuckers!
I don't eat red meat and shit because i don't like the taste, but i'm cool with chicken and quite cool with fish as well. Good source of iodine and pretty good for you. Unless you live in korea where all that mercury or lead or whatever got in the water, fish will do alright for ya. Look at all those skinny japanese fuckers. They just eat fish and balance it with carbs from rice and noodles and they're all skinny and play sports in highschool a lot and run and seem to be in shape. I know this from anime.
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Anonymous2006-01-25 23:34
well, if you learned it on anime it must be correct.