Today's Doofus award goes to PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They want a school in the town of Spearfish, South Dakota, to rename itself.
The activist animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has asked school officials to change the name of Spearfish High School to "Sea Kitten High School." The new name would "reflect the gentle nature of its current marine namesake," the organization said in a letter to Steve Morford, Spearfish High School principal.
PETA said the letter is part of a new Sea Kitten campaign aimed at children.
If children were taught to refer to fish as "sea kittens," reflecting that fish, like cats and dogs, are "individuals" that "do have friendships," fewer fish might be killed for food or sport, said Pulin Modi, a PETA spokesman.
"We want people to realize that more fish are killed each year than all animals combined," he said. "They don't have the sympathy of more popular animals like cats and dogs."
Morford said he did not want to share his feelings about PETA. "Obviously, it's nothing we're taking seriously," he said.
I do like Mr. Morford's diplomacy - although I'd probably enjoy hearing his feelings about PETA, over a beer or two, after hours!
Fish as sea kittens, indeed! I think I'm going to make myself a late supper of
Peter
Try living in a cattle and swine raising area. Fortunately PETA doesn't show up too often - lynching for stupidity is still close to legal out here.
ReplyDeleteIronic that so many would fight to create a safe society, and do it so well that moonbats like these having nothing more pressing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteJim
hehehe Peter, i saw (& blogged on) the "sea kitten" thing yesterday but hadn't seen this additional (inane) suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI just think "Bye love, i'm off sea-kittening" just doesn't have the same ring to it!
OK, so PETA has done some good on occasion, but this animal lover thinks the group has lost its collective mind. WTF, "sea kittens"?!? What's next, political asylum for crawdads and woolly worms?
ReplyDeleteConsidering that "fish", as the group that we tend to think of them as, comprise no less than three separate classes- a more diverse group than any of the other Vertebrae combined, when considered as everything we think of as collectively fish- it just plain freaks me the hell out in the bad way to see them all referred to as having a universal "gentle" nature.
ReplyDeleteSOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET. DAMMIT.
Randompawses- as an animal welfare advocate, oh, I have stories about PETA... their public image is far better than it deserves to be, and I'm just talking with respect to the animals they claim to stand for.
Must. Find. Duct. Tape. before head explodes... sigh...
ReplyDeleteIt's not the first time they tried to do that. Fishkill, NY was their target a few years back. PETA wanted it renamed to "Fishsave." The town's name had nothing to do with killing fish but was derived from the Dutch words for fish stream. The area had been part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. I don't thin the town fathers were amused by this request.
ReplyDeleteJon
Just another gunblog reader and thr.us member
PETA can save the fish as long as they leave my steers alone :D
ReplyDeleteIt appears Darwin was right, but missed one little detail: we (some of us, at least) are stuck in reverse.
ReplyDeleteGoatroper
And it leaves me wondering, BTW, what they intend to do to the poor killdeer, who didn't know it was being so insensitive.
ReplyDeleteGoatroper