Aquarium Shouldn't Serve Fish, PETA Says

[Kali]

Aquarium Shouldn't Serve Fish, PETA Says

<li style="list-style-type: square; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: inside;">The animal rights group asks the Long Beach attraction to get seafood off its menu.

By Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writer

An animal rights group wants the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach to gut its cafeteria menu of fish and seafood, arguing that "serving fish at an aquarium is like serving poodle burgers at a dog show."

Like Lilo in the animated "Lilo and Stitch," who refused to make a tuna sandwich for her friend, Pudge, a fish, because it would be "an abomination," the head of the Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said serving fish at an aquarium just isn't right. "An institution with a mission that includes teaching people to respect and appreciate marine animals certainly shouldn't serve fish in its cafeteria," Karin Robertson wrote last week in a letter to Jerry Schabel, the aquarium's chairman and chief executive. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fish28jun28,1,2468458.story?coll=la-headlines-california



These people are psycho!!!! :drunk:

[FreeAmerican]

"serving fish at an aquarium is like serving poodle burgers at a dog show."
Only excepting that people in this country actually eat fish. I know when I go through an aquarium and see the salmon and the halibut swimming around I get an appetite for some fish.

PETA needs a big heads up: Fish eat fish! So I don't think they will mind if the people do too.

[UnkHiram]

Last Time I went to the "Fat Stock Show" I bought a burger at the Concesion stand while I walked around looking at the Cows. Seems logical to me to eat fish at an aquarium.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

PETA needs a big heads up: Fish eat fish! So I don't think they will mind if the people do too.

We finally agree on something, :thumb:

[Trevelyan]

I despise PETA.

[TechnoPrincess]

I heard this on the radio and thought it was funny! These people are SO out of touch!:hahaha:

[Tumblehome]

I support the rights of non-human animals, likely more than the majority here do, but this PETA stance is just plain stupid.

[TheRealLobo]

I support the rights of non-human animals, likely more than the majority here do, but this PETA stance is just plain stupid.

Ummm...clue me, but is there a U.S. Cowstitution somewhere that I missed?:hahaha:

[JimRaynor]

Basic rights every creature should have I think he's referring to?
These guys are cooky.

[Aethariel]

Sorry, PETA, but I think there are bigger problems in the world than fish being served at an aquarium. It's like complaining that a man's pants are wrinkled and unsightly after he just got murdered-- there are much larger issues, right in our own backyards, that need to be addressed before that of people eating fish. Maybe in a much more perfect world I'd take a moment to reflect on it, but not in a world at war, with human misery everywhere. Annoying-ass PETA.

[Rink]

Um fish are STUPID, if they werent stupid they wouldnt be biting a line that has a hook on it.

Fish were meant to be eaten.

As for the aquarium, I think thats a GOOD idea, especially with the fact that if you TRULY wanted decent, clean seafoods thats the way to go because to get seafoiods FROM the seas it has to be shipped, and there have been way too many salmonella cases and other bad seafood cases because of the time to ship from one place to the dinnerplate, and the fact that sometimes seafood can get spoiled in shipment.

Having it right there in front of you to me is a surefire way to have fresh decent clean seafood without the fear of any illnesses from spoiled seafoods.

Wish they had more 'o these 'aquarium' diners, I'd love to go to em.

[TheRealLobo]

Basic rights every creature should have I think he's referring to?

Ummm...can you clue me? What "rights" does a fish have?


These guys are cooky.

That's an understatement by orders of magnitude. :)

[CzechPrince]

Yep, I do hate PETA.

[JimRaynor]

Well, it's hard to explain to you Lobo what is a difference in ideas...
I think animals, "stupid" or not... have the right to not be tortured, and not be treated as commodities (while alive). I am fine with people eating meat, drinking milk... etc, I just don't like seeing animals abused as I tend to see them not too much below us.
But PETA is just nuts...

[Riverboat]

"serving fish at an aquarium is like serving poodle burgers at a dog show." No. Hot dogs, maybe.

Poodle burgers indeed. That's so gay.
:frenchpoo

[UnkHiram]

How about Doberman dumplings?

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

How about Doberman dumplings?

What it Unk, you're straying into muddy waters again -- first you trash Barry, then my doby's! And I thought we were FRIENDS! :grin:

French Poodle Fritters would be more like it! :smirky:

[UnkHiram]

Gee Whiz

How about Terrier Taco's

[Riverboat]

How about Terrier Taco'sWell, I was going to suggest Chihuahua chimichangas, but I doubt you'd get enough meat off those little runts to fill a thimble.

[Tumblehome]

Well, it's hard to explain to you Lobo what is a difference in ideas...
I think animals, "stupid" or not... have the right to not be tortured, and not be treated as commodities (while alive). I am fine with people eating meat, drinking milk... etc, I just don't like seeing animals abused as I tend to see them not too much below us.
But PETA is just nuts...

Yes, this is what I was saying as well. I have a certain level of empathy for all living things - except maybe bacteria and virii. I think most of us do. Could you observe a dog being tortured and not feel that some sort of natural right is being violated? Would you not feel empathy for the dog?