Peta, the animal rights lunatics, are running an ad campaign seeking to change the name of fish to…(wait for it)…sea kittens. I’m not kidding.
This is from Peta’s website:
People don’t seem to like fish. They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads—which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you’re swimming, and the big ones—well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.
Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat. Whoever was in charge of creating a positive image for fish needs to go right back to working on the Britney Spears account and leave our scaly little friends alone. You’ve done enough damage, buddy. We’ve got it from here. And we’re going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?
OK. I see their point. And this gives me a great idea. A deal, if you will. I’m willing from now on to refer to fish as sea kittens as long as they’re willing to do one little thing for me. Instead of calling those little humans in woman’s wombs a fetus let’s call them…uhm..babies.
I think it makes them a lot harder to kill, don’t you?
Think they’ll go for it?
H/T Sweetness and Light
I got the pic from GreenDaily
January 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm
brilliant.
January 8, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I dunno about this idea… it didn’t work for Sea Monkeys, did it?
I do like your end of the bargain, however.
January 8, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I like kittens — they go well with habanera sauce and a dry red wine.
January 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Good bargaining skills. Personally, I’m glad for “sea kittens” to stay in the ocean and off my plate, so I’m in because I’d totally be getting something for nothing.
~Zee
January 8, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Someone should let PETA know we’re poisoning all our sea kittens with our contraception hormones that drain into our waterways.
Come to think of it, our babies in our wombs aren’t fairing too well against all those hormones either.
January 8, 2009 at 7:08 pm
You forget– PETA doesn’t like babies either…
You’d have to call them “womb chickens” or something….
January 8, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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January 8, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Call a fetus a baby? Well, now you’re being ridiculous. (sarc)
I once heard an interview with a professor from Rutgers who was such a vegitarian that when he would come across a spider or fly in his house, he would lightly pick the critter up and set it down outside. His reasoning was that we don’t know if the little insect felt pain or not. He just wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. However, when the radio host asked him what his stance on the abortion issue was, he responded pro-choice!
January 8, 2009 at 7:31 pm
He just wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. However, when the radio host asked him what his stance on the abortion issue was, he responded pro-choice!
I’ve told this story before, but this might just be the first time on this blog. Once my dad went hunting with his buddies in the Catskills Mountains in New York. They managed to shoot a deer, and they were driving back home to the city with the deer strapped to the hood of the car.
They stopped for a restroom break, while my dad waited with the car. A couple of women rolled up next to the car, and when they got out, one of them sneered, “You bambi killer.” My dad retorted, “What are your views on abortion?”
The woman responded with something not fit for a family friendly blog.
I love that story.
January 8, 2009 at 8:00 pm
This is a great idea. I’ve seen reports from the restaurant industries in several East Asian nations that the demand for land fish is at an all-time high.
January 8, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Nah, call them “government entitlements.” Nobody’s ever been able to kill one of those.
January 8, 2009 at 10:10 pm
It doesn’t work with sea urchins (a delicacy in Japan); why would it work with “sea kittens”? It might just make them more attractive to some people.
January 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Mmmm… Sea Kittens and chips
January 12, 2009 at 5:08 am
Better yet, they have asked the Spearfish High School (in the middle of the landlocked South Dakota Black Hills) to change their name to Sea Kitten High School. I kid you not… in the Sioux Falls, SD paper this morning.