■ 02 July 2009 | 8:33 AM
Gorton's Sea Kitten Sticks?
Why do members of the media always take the bait on PETA?
Because their public relations folks are clever, that's why.
Consider PETA's latest campaign. After years of yapping about the horrors of fishing - to no avail - the animal activists are trying a new approach.
They want to rebrand fish.
Unable to rouse much public sympathy for scaly sea creatures to date, PETA now proposes a piscean name change.
From "Fish." To "Sea Kittens."
Thus, the "Save The Sea Kittens" campaign was born.
Who'd want to hook a helpless sea kitten, they wonder?
Who'd fillet a sea kitten?
Who'd throw a sea kitten on the grill?
Easy. If it's a delicious salmon sea kitten steak we're talking about, the answer is, me.
Photo of succulent sea kittens on cedar planks by woodleywonderworks
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Next thing you know...
They will be protesting people fattening up the sea gulls with stale honey buns fished (Oops, sea-kittened) out of a dumpster behind the Chesapeake jail...
Move West Young Fruitcakes.
PETA should move to San Francisco where they'd fit in quite nicely.
Ignore them and they will go away.
The only reason that PETA is ever in the news is because the media put them there. I guess that I get a laugh from time to time from some of their antics. However, I think that very few people really take them seriously. In regards to animal care and humane treatment I look more to organizations such as the ASPCA for more reasonable thinking. I have nothing against someone being vegan or not wanting to eat meat. What I do have a problem with is attempting to get everyone else to live their lifestyle.
Sea Kittens taste
like chicken!
Sorry Charlie... Starkist Wants Sea Kittens That Taste Good...
Sea Kittens, Sea Kittens,
Rolly-Polly Sea Kittens,
Sea Kittens, Sea Kittens,
Eat Them Up, Yum!
peta
This mentally challenged and highly funded organization is .....well
1. Who'd want to hook a helpless sea kitten, they wonder? I would and rip his mouth apart removing the hook!
2. Who'd fillet a sea kitten? I'd throw his head and guts back for the other seakittens. (what a warm and wonderful human I am)
3. Who'd throw a sea kitten on the grill? YUMMY!sounds great!
"A rose by anyother name is still a rose" regardless what the mentally challenged organization sez!!!!
Nice but a little late.
They started this campaign almost last year.
If it tastes good, I'll eat it. I don't care what it's called.
ugh
how is this news? PETA has their own media people without you helping to spread their gospel. ignore them and maybe they will go away.
It's not news
Kerry's column is an opinion piece i.e. her opinions on things, not news. Lighten up.
New book idea...
Hey, here is a new book idea, 101 things to do with a dead sea kitten.