A: None. Half-naked PETA members can’t change anything!
Sorry. Juvenile. But seriously, I was just down at the PETA protest, in front of the Aquaculture America Conference at the Washington State Convention Center, and the three mermaids and one merman lying on the sidewalk, pretending to be asleep, didn’t seem to be changing much of anything.
I stood there for awhile, and didn’t hear any dialogue about the cause that I read about in the press release:
“What’s PETA’s beef with fish farms? Scores of scientific studies prove that fish feel pain, are smart, can use tools, and have impressive long-term memories and sophisticated social structures, yet farmed fish spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy pens. Many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. They are crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted, all while they are still conscious. Humans who eat fish suffer too. Fish flesh is contaminated with toxic chemicals—including mercury and PCBs—that are known to cause cancer and brain degeneration, and it is also the most likely of all foods to make you sick from bacterial contamination.”
I was hoping someone would talk to me about sea kittens. Or hand me an interesting pamphlet. Maybe I didn’t stand there long enough. To me, it seemed like just a bunch of dirty old men taking photos with their cell phones. Maybe the sexy PETA approach isn’t working? Or is it?
More photos after the jump…
That dude is going to get LAID!
Here’s whats even more hilarious; The camera people outnumbered the protesters like 2:1
Hey! It’s blue shirt and khakis guy!
And yet I still saw someone eating a Filet O Fish today. Way to go, PETA.
Other than get you to post on Slog where umpteen dozen people read about it, I guess it had no effect.
Yeah, but they stayed up all night last night making those costumes.
At the least you could do is applaud or something.
Huh. They didn’t compare chickens to holocaust victims, or dog breeders to kkk members – in fact, no offensive slurs at all here! Keep it up, PETA, and I might stop being ashamed that I share some of your beliefs on animal treatment!
Fish farms are extremely bad for the environment and are a major threat to wild fish. I guess PETA doesn’t care to even mention that.
Farmed fish also tastes like shit.
Considering the joke was derived from a feminist joke (feminists don’t change anything), how does it feel to have a pussy, you god damn worthless bitch?
Laugh at people who are compassionate about things. LAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH.
Your worthless fat ass cunt wouldn’t be employed if people didn’t come before you to fight for things that seemed silly at the time.
I want to know more about this whole “fish using tools” thing.
It’s PARALLEL STRUCTURE TIME:
fish don’t use tools
these tools don’t eat fish
nobody cares
I agree with #1. PETA chicks probably get hot over doing stuff like this.
Did anyone actually try to talk with the protesters?
I’m beginning to think animal rights activists need to start being treated just like the animals they so empathize with.
Hmm, sushi for dinner tonight it is!!
brrrrrrrrrrr.
are they supposed to be dead mer-people? or sleeping mer-people? why agree to protest as a topless mer-person and then hold your arms over your boobs? are those american apparel tights? so many questions. god, peta blows.
I’m beginning to think (insert) WOMEN’S rights activists need to start being treated just like the (insert) MEN they so empathize with.
LET’S BEAT THEM LIKE MEN!
you commenters kinda disgust me.
PETA never met a good cause they couldn’t make ridiculous.
@17
Swing and a miss!
Sam, you don’t waste your time talking to people from PETA. They’re all a bunch of brain-dead, hypocritical kooks.
Confidential to Vegan Merdude:
Is it still No Dick Day?
Just because you don’t eat meat doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stuff some artificial beef in your package if you’re going to be showing it off like that — especially if you’re trying to get attention and get people to post it to blogs and such. If you’re ever wearing skin tight pants, you don’t want people to be reminded of Clara Peller’s catchphrase.
Yours in protest,
Logopolis Mike
Keshmeshi is correct. And even a blind squirrel (i.e., PETA) finds an acorn now and then. Farmed fish (for most species) is bad news, and is contributing to the destruction of wild fish runs in this region AND to the death of Puget Sound.
Stunts like this from PETA make everyone who cares about stuff like this look like a moron. We are not. Friends don’t let friends eat farmed fish.
@9, um, no, people fought for things that matter so YOU can protest the stuff that does not. the only thing that matters about fish is whether it’s grilled properly, not too well done.
Looks like they put all that leftover body paint from the Solstice Parade to good use…
once again, peta makes me embarassed to call myself vegan
I thought this was an ad for Starbucks.
@23, you’re an idiot. The only thing that matters? So extinction doesn’t matter? Where’s your fish going to come from then? Really, it’s of no interest to you whether critters can live in Puget Sound or not? You know it’s dying, right? You know that Hood Canal is a dead zone now, right? You know that fish farms are one cause of that, right?
Oh, and boo for cowardly nipple tape.
FNARF TAKES SEA COCK UP THE ASS FROM GAY NEPTUNE
PS: great job making it over I-5 you cum filled hipster hacks
I seriously want to buy one of thier costumes…
*Little Mermaid in Training*
once again, peta has done more today to make the world a better place than the slog could in a week. yet the slog laughs thier hipster laugh and mooches another round of pbrs…
All those bystanders with their hands in their pockets….
fupfupfupfupfupfupfup
@31
You mean peta has done more today on slog to help lift it from boredom. Has been kind of a slow day on slog. Oh, and I am too old to be a hipster but I can still laugh, do I still count?
@1 I think it’s “fil-layed”.
They look like the diseased fish that they’re protesting about. Is that intentional? I certainly wouldn’t want to eat a cold, mottled merlady who’s been laying out on the sidewalk all day. Time for some high grade sushi instead.
Well, Kelly O, at least you freely admit you’re juvenile.
Green boobies! yay!
look at this post and comments. it worked.
Did it get attention from the media: Check.
Did it get attention from blogs: Check.
Did people pass on the pics worldwide: Check.
Mission Accomplished. And for maybe $40 tops.
That reminds me that I need to pick up some salmon for dinner tonight. Thanks peta.
They make a good point. I think I’ll have beef for dinner tonight instead of fish.
Kelly O there was someone distributing leaflets. You even got a picture of it. There was a coordinator from PETA there talking to the press. You can also easily find out more information about fish by using this cool search engine called “Google”
I guess you expect information to be spoon fed to you. So here you go:
http://www.highstrangeness.tv/articles/f…
took all of 5 seconds
I’ve always had a problem with the “any press is good press” mentality when it comes to things like this.
The only hipster on slog is Lindy West. Seriously. Everyone else is a nerd.
Well, judging from the number of posts, it is clear that geese are more valuable than fish.
Peta could have changed this public perception, if they had only force-fed their mer-people.
Maybe next time.
You’re so mean to PETA. At least something interesting happened today in this boring town.
And no wonder Slog has attracted so many dick comments, because posts like this are from the dick POV.
@46, yeah, a high school level protest counts as interesting to you. Maybe you’re the boring one
@44
a hipster is just a nerd who didn’t know how to be “cool” until the internet gave him a recipe so simple even a nerd could do it
What is it with petards and implants, anyway? Nooooo yogurt shall pass the gates of the temple that is my body … but silicone? Top me up!
And fish using tools? If you want to see the higher stages of tool-using aquacultural civilization, ya gotta go with sea monkeys. And who are sea monkeys’ natural enemies? , that’s who!
If not for marauding sea kittens, our clever, industrious friends would probably have put a sea monkey on Mars by now. Death to sea kittens!