No matter how enthusiastic an environmentalist you are, you can’t agree with everyone that the green movement does. And I have to say that I can’t take the latest move from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) very seriously. According to their website, people don’t like fish because “They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads – which is weird, to say the least”. Their solution – rename fish as sea kittens!
The campaign is obviously targeted at children (I hope!), but I’m sure there are better ways of promoting fish and marine life without pretending that they are something which they are not.
All in all, I’m not impressed, although I did like this “Sea Kitten Fact”: “A University of Edinburgh study found that sea kittens can retain information that they learned up to 11 months earlier, which makes them cuter and smarter than the president of the United States! “. I wonder if they’ll be tempted to take that off the site nowMr. Bush has ridden off into the sunset.
