Kitten shrimp are very yummy with lots of garlic and chili flakes

This is how I ended up vegetarian for awhile. I realized exactly what I was eating.

I think fishing is horrible and would probably agree with the article (but I'm not going to read it). that dragging something around by its mouth and then letting it suffocate is cruel. But I eat fish. And I eat meat. I just try to not think about it.

I disagree. All press is good press to some degree. We may ridicule it, we may tell other people how ridiculous it is...they tell a few people. Somewhere along the line, PETA is guessing (probably rightly so) that someone (who may not otherwise be simpatico w/PETA) is going to go, "hmmm, I never thought about it that way."

Further, in my estimation, this is a campaign largely aimed at kids. Kids drive A LOT of change insofar as treatment of animals is concerned. I point you to the highly successful campaign to stop the slaughter of dolphins in tuna nets. The architects of that campaign didn't confront adults, they instituted an educational campaign aimed at kids, mostly through schools, which more or less sent a message saying that when you ate tuna, you were killing dolphins. In fairly shot order, tuna sales plummeted and angry mothers were writing letters to Starkist and their congressmen. "Dolphin-safe" tuna and DPCIA quickly followed.


Yeah, got that. Just pointing out that the campaign itself is successful, based on my preceding comment.

I like my sea kittens raw, with pickled ginger and wasabi and soy sauce.

Actually, sea kittens are the one creature I do eat. Not because I think their lives are less valuable, but because that's as close to vegetarian as I'm willing to get. I really love sushi.

I can not haz sea kittehs. I iz allergic.

As a nonmammaltarian, I concur (though I also eat poultry). A strict vegetarian diet sounds boring to me.

Isn't that just the BEST way to have Sea Kittens??

MMMmmmm... Now I'm going to eat a Sea kitten or two for lunch today ! Nom Nom Nom.

Sea Kitten: get some on your chopstick.

Mmmmmm...sushi.

This made me laugh right out loud.

Also, I can haz ahiburger?

Similar to Marla, I think there are times when I absolutely do need meat. (This week for instance - I lost a lot of blood and immediately crave it, and thusly ate some.) But I don't like thinking about it, so I prefer other sources of protein when it makes me feel good enough. (Including, yes, a chicken's menstrual cycle.)

I hate fish, so no eating Sea Kitten. Sex Kitten? Well...