Every time you think that PETA can’t get any more ridiculous, they do something like this:
FISH have feelings, too, according to the folks at PETA, who are taking aim at writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell. The author, whose best-selling memoir, “I Am Not Myself These Days,” chronicles his double life as an ad exec-cum-drag performer, was put on notice last week by the animal-rights group’s “Fish Empathy Project” for alleged cruelty to goldfish. As his whip-cracking alter-ego, Aquadisiac, Kilmer-Purcell donned a pair of clear plastic breasts filled with live goldfish. Says PETA: “It would be, for you, like living in a covered bathtub that’s constantly moving, tossing you around as you defecate in it. It’s filthy, painful and terrifying for these animals.”
March 15th: International Eat an Animal for PETA Day. Because they earned it.
To be honest, and with no connection to how I feel about PETA, I don’t like the idea of using live goldfish for such a purpose either.
Fish have feelings? I’ll bet a fin they don’t. If they do it’s on a low scale. Good cod, I’m getting tired of herring these idiots carry on like this from their perch among the loonies. I’m going to keep eating fish without the slightest pang of gillt.
I’ve been purposely eating much more fish since they put up that billboard of the dog with a hook in its lip.
PETA’s outragous publicity stunts only make people see what true nutjobs they are, thereby compelling people to eat more animals.
PETA is right. These animals desereve not to suffer. Period.
Plants have feelings. Why should plants have to suffer?
It is possible rocks have feelings too.
And what about dirt? There are lots of living organisms in dirt.
I say lay off the dirt.
BTW I agree with Tahler – time to put the PETA folks out of their misery.
I take the American Indian attitude. The whole universe is alive. When we have to kill a bit of it for our lives we should honor it.