Sea Kittens? Really?

[Bricklayer]

PETA Attempts To Make Fish More Adorable

"Sea kittens" is the new term being used by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for the creatures they believe are in dire need of an image makeover: fish.

"PETA thought that by renaming fish sea kittens, compassionate people who would never dream of hurting a dog or a cat might extend that sympathy to fish, or sea kittens," PETA campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99249669



Brilliant.

 

[LoungeLizard]

The last line of the article is the best..

I think I may eat some sea kittens tonight.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

PETA never ceases to amaze me. Take a cause that is fairly sympathetic and that if reasonably argued could probably garner a decent amount of electoral/legislative support and go so overboard that even many people that believe strongly in animal rights think you are a bunch of buffoons.

 

[Bricklayer]

Sigh, More "sea kitten" fun:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090110/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sea_kitten_high

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Its all over PETA's webpage as well (I went there after the first post because I had to believe that NPR had launched their own Onion news division for a moment). They've even drawn up a bunch of cartoon fish with kitten features.

Roll your own "game":
http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/game.asp

 

[GoGoGadget]

I hate PeTA.

Almost as much as I love animals.

 

[kings4lyfe32]

sea kittens.......wow, just wow.

wow


wow

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Colbert made a funny about this last night - he welcomed the name change and said that he would stop eating fish and was looking forward to his next meal of Land Fish instead.

 

[Spike]

I'm having some seasoned Ahi Sea Kitten tonight...I feel deliciously dirty typing this. Perhaps PETA has succeeded.

 

[NoBonus]

If I were a PETA supporter, and I am not BTW as they take their mission to improve animal treatment WAY too far to the point of being stupid and sophomoric, this sort of childish campaign would cause me to take my support elsewhere to an organization that has some sort of accountability to it's donors for it's actions. Just pathetic. PETA has lost touch with reality. It is almost like "We dare you to support us" should be their motto.

 

[kennadog]

PETA damages it's own cause by carrying things to ridiculous extremes. They will never win over the number of supporters they'd like to get with bizarre behavior. If you want to better people's treatment of animals don't act in a way that makes people dimiss you as bufoons.

 

[StevenHW]

If fish will now be referred to as "sea kittens", then what will PETA call cats? "Land fishes"?

 

[NME]

 

[Monty'sBiggestFan]

You know, I saw this thread title and figured the underlying story was some ridiculous thing I would read in the back of a comic book...a genetic kin to the sea monkey family you could buy and keep in your room.

The actual underlying story is even more ridiculous than that. I cant even fathom the idea that somebody got paid to think ts idea up but also that somebody got paid to carry this to the media with a straight face AND that yet another someone thought up the genius execution of this strategy of going after a school mascot name. Unfreakingbelieveable.

I agree with PDX, PETA has managed the last few years to purposely become a parody of its own cause.