You wouldn't eat a Sea Kitten, would you?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by bewitched

I completely disagree.

They don't seriously think people will call fish "sea kittens", they just want people to talk about the campaign and the idea of fish as sentient creatures.

The idea is working beautifully. We're talking about it aren't we?

Err, okay, I feel the need to point out that I was not serious about "sea monkeys" being a way to stop people from killing brine shrimp. It was a joke.

[Snowflake]

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

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Yeah... But we're also making fun of them. Not the discussion I think they wanted.

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.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Err, okay, I feel the need to point out that I was not serious about "sea monkeys" being a way to stop people from killing brine shrimp. It was a joke.

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