The folks at PETA are planning demonstrations next month at seafood restaurants around the country to help inform us that we shouldn't eat fish because of their marked intelligence and sensitivity [&:]:
If fish are so damned smart then why do they bite spinner baits ,
an object that doesn't even remotely resemble food ?
All kidding aside , I love smart fish , they taste so much better than the stupid ones !
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I must admit, I prefer vegetarian sushi over the real stuff. I just don't have a thing for raw fish stuffed into a ball of sweet rice. Tofu chowder sucks, though. Give me some clams any day.
Back to the story--*yawn*. The public will hardly bat an eye as they go to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. Maybe I'll treat the wife to dinner out just to counter-protest. She does a lot of asian cooking, and has some fish sauce I can pour into a squirt pistol. You know, for self defense.
It sounds like PETA recommends that we all be vegetarians.
I read an interesting point made in a book on butchering recently. It happens that animals can digest some vegetable matter that humans cannot digest. Imagine the stomach contents of a mule deer or a pronghorn antelope, if you can. Additionally, not all soils or climates lend themselves to the cultivation of those vegetables which are digestible by humans. By harvesting livestock and game we may increase the amount of food available. Similarly, by swearing off eating animals we may decrease the amount of food available to feed human beings (well, I guess it sounds kind of obvious when stated this way -- but I'm all in favor of stating the obvious).
I'm not sure how practical a point this is. The Chinese, who have a lot of trouble keeping themselves fed, seem to eat precious little meat not more meat!!! Still, it is worth keeping in mind.
Maybe this is PETA's point, to feed fewer people so there are fewer people around to disturb the pristine, perfect, sin-free natural world? It is interesting how zealotry and ideology is OK when it is liberal zealotry and/or ideology but bad, bad, bad when it is christian zealotry and/or ideology. I am not a religious zealot or ideologue by a long shot, but it is still instructive to observe and mark the prejudices of public discourse.
Makes me think of SeaWorld. The last time I was there, I really enjoyed it. As I was eating my fish sandwich, I was thinking, "Hmm. I wonder if this one was a slow learner."
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