PETA Billboards Claim Fish Friends, Not Food

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."

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4865346/detail.html

>>30


Welcome our new alien overlords, the Trffids!

Can a Flounder loan me a Five?  A Tuna a Ten?
Friend my ass!

I　live　japan
I　ｌｉｋｅ　Amerca！
こんにちは

Inside the earth, I'm hearing fishes fishes.
I'm dedicated to feeding meat to vegetarians and vegans.

Fish heads, fish heads rolly polly fish heads.
Eat'm all up!

>>39
Nah... People contain all kinds of diseases... Especially smelly hippies who sleep outside and have sex with anything that moves.

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.

>>47
Interesting ideas, but grazing land takes more space. Not to mention you need to feed the cows as well.

>>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?

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.

>>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.

PETA SUCKS ASS

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.

http://www.eathufu.com

>>53
Depends on what they eat, n00b.

Was better when it was called freshmeat.org

I am a level 10 Meatan... I only eat things that are self aware...

I try to eat meat that has been treated with antibiotics and steroids. I feel cheated otherwise.

>>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

>>16
PETA ain't hippies. They're opposite. They're animal rights fascists, that's not hippy.

>>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.

PETA is gay

I am eating massive meat for Christmas. PETA can blow my weenie.

By "meat" I mean cock

>>9

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!

Bloody red meat was actually the catalyst that super charged human evolution. Obviously, PETA doesn't know this.

>>45

Rolly Polly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women.
Yeeaahh

vegetarians look pale and sickly.

As a vegetarian and animal rights type, I find PETA and such groups to be annoying as Hell.

Anybody here eat whale? I used to when it was available in California (canned). I like it.

We have in alaska; only the natives eat the crap, though.

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!

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!

>>72
Enjoy your aids.

>>72
Wow, you are certainly a fucktarded moron.

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.

well, if you learned it on anime it must be correct.