I got this from a list I am on. This just shows how PETA is so out of touch. No way am I gonna refer to fish this way, or change my FISHING habits, or eating habits of fish I catch. Read on.


Washington Times
Beware of what animal rights group is planning
BY Gene Mueller
POSTED October 29 2008 2:32 PM

http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/insid...group-planning/

http://tinyurl.com/6dtkj6

You've got to give it to the wacky People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA). Whenever we hunters and fishermen feel a little down
and don't have a lot to be cheerful about, here comes PETA and delivers
a comedy
routine worthy of any night club in Las Vegas.

The trouble is, more often than not the Norfolk-based PETA is serious
about its outrageous attempts to change our behavior.

Nowadays the animal rights religionists aren't only going after
scientists, trying to save a laboratory rat that could one day save a
human life; and they still think of hunters as nothing less than
descendants of raging Huns that need to be eradicated.

But of late PETA has also tried to take on one of the most influential
and massively numbered segments in American -- no, world-wide --
recreation: the sport anglers.

You know them as fishermen or bait dunkers, perch jerkers, carpers,
bass hounds -- the whole enchilada. PETA believes what will make
everybody sit up and take notice is a new anti-fishing campaign. It has
high hopes to "get
Americans hooked on compassion for fish by thinking of them -- and
referring to them -- as Sea Kittens." Those are PETA's words, not mine.

Imagine, you slam into a 200-pound bluefin tuna 60 miles offshore; your
arms are sore, every muscle aches and the fight lasts a good while, but
in the end the tuna is boated. Oops, I meant to say the sea kitten is
boated.

Somebody, please, find the person who came up with those words and give
him or her a good slap upside the head. PETA says if fish were renamed
"sea kittens," humans might be less likely to hurt them. Its national
"Save the
Sea Kittens" campaign will be taken across the country and, according
to PETA coordinator Ashley Byrne, will be introduced to elementary
schools that serve fish for lunch. PETA says it wants to remind the
children and educators, maybe even the cooks in the cafeteria, that
fish -- sorry, sea kittens -- are "intelligent, sensitive animals who
deserve respect but don't
deserve to be netted from the ocean depths, hooked and maimed for
'sport,' or confined to aquariums.

Well, PETA, I must tell you that the 4-pound largemouth bass I hooked
not long ago apparently wasn't a member of your intelligent, sensitive
sea kitten family. That bass was dumber than a brick. It struck my top
water
lure not once and missed it; not twice and missed it again. It did it
four consecutive times. When I finally landed it, carefully lifting it
from the water to remove the hook and let it swim off, perhaps to be
caught another day, there wasn't even the tiniest look of a kitty on
its face. It appeared to be a tough back alley brawler, not the
smartest creature on earth, but a
worthy fighter all the same.

Meanwhile, please, ignore PETA's malarkey that fish communicate and
develop relationships with each other and show affection by gently
rubbing against each other. They even grieve when their companions die,
says PETA. Are these people from Mars? They couldn't possibly belong to
the same species the rest of us are part of.

If you have elementary school children, I strongly urge all moms and
dads, grandmothers and grandfathers to check out their children's
schools, visit the principals, teachers and county or city school
boards to strongly protest PETA's brainwashing attempts of innocent
youngsters. Our taxes are paying for these schools and all that goes
with them, even cafeterias. Do not allow nutty animal rights groups to
rule them.

a good post. i have a three year old and it scares me to think of how she will be taught to feel about certain things in school. will she enjoy fishing and hunting and more importantly the outdoors as much as me. will camping trips mean as much as they did when i was young. or will she be repulsed by skinning a deer or guttin a mess of fish. PETA is rediculous. the folks that came up with that have obviously never watched the sun come up in a blind or over a group of lily pads. i feel sorry for them.

I'm a member of PETA!

People Eating Tasty Animals.

Nice post.

Well even though it didn't put much discussion on this board, I am sure people will talk about it. Calling fish sea kittens and teaching kids this kind of mindless crappola just rubs me the wrong way. A lot of people think PETA is harmless. What they don't realize is they use this to their advantage. Many pet laws have been passed because of PETA. Yes, they are crazy. But they have lots of money from people who think they are helping poor animals, when they don't understand what PETA and HSUS actually DO with that money. Very little of that money goes to shelters. Most of it goes to legal aspects of moving forward with their Animal Rights agenda. No pets at all, no meat eating, no animals in cages or anything like that. They are taking away our rights a little at a time. Kind of like the proverbial frog in the hot water. Turn it up a little at a time, and the frog will boil to death....that is what they do. But they have taken it up a notch lately, and I wanted y'all to know about it. It isn't just pets...they want to stop angling, and hunting. Anglers they THINK are an easier bunch to deal with.

Well, PETA remains consistent. Everything that comes from them is consistent with the ramblings of an idiot. As far as them influencing school children. All parents have the responsibility to monitor their child's learning, and correct them as needed. Parents, have the final say when it comes to their beliefs. PETA disregards the fact that the kitty in the pic would eat that fish, given the chance.

If real kittens fought as good as "sea kittens" I may start fishing around the neighborhood!!!!

Your posts' reference to what kids may be taught in schools is right on. Teachers now ask kids if there are guns in the home, and try to brainwash kids with there own anti hunting or anti fishing ideals. That is the main reason I have joined the PTA in my town. My son is only in kindergarden, but I can already tell these PTA moms are going to hate me. Sorry if I want schools to teach children an education and get them into college. Too many don't care about that, they want to push their private agenda, and what better crowd than impressionable children.

WOW - they are really a bunch of nut jobs!

Where do they get the idea that they have a right to tell us how to live or act - we are law abiding sportsmen and women.

My kids love to heckle the PETA folks who protest the circus!
Fortunately my kids have learned from an early age that God created everything - and if he had not intended for us to eat the animals he would have made them out of plastic and not meat!

Did you see the 1 comment posted to the article - another tree hugging animal right bleeding heart!

I saw a great bumper sticker in, of all places, Austin the other day, "I DIDN'T CLAW MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO EAT VEGETABLES!"

Filet a "sea kitten" every chance you get!!!

I think Huckleberry may be a little sensitive to this.

"If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as s*** "


- Mitch Hedberg

Amazing. Let's just hope that they don't resort to something more destructive and violent, when this strategy fails. And by the way, how and the hell does PETA gain legal access to school facilities, or the right to post / hand out any of their material?

I would like to see some of the folks from that outfit lay beside a 15' gator and convince them there new name is swamp-kittens.