"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Sympathy for the guppy: PETA campaign pitches fish as smart and sensitive
Tuesday November 16, 2004
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi as alternatives,
animal-rights activists have launched a novel campaign arguing that fish
contrary to stereotype are intelligent, sensitive animals no more
deserving of
being eaten than a pet dog or cat.

From: "groovy"
My Shubunkin are as dumb as a bag of hammers. There is no way they
can fool me with that one. Now if they had said that cats are as dumb as
fish, I could get behind that idea.


I always find it curious that people think intelligence has something to do
with the value of one's life. If that were the case than half the people in
the world should be eaten along with the fish. We eat pigs every day which
are known to be at least as smart as dogs and yet eating dogs would be a
jailable offense to most people.

I am not a supporter of PETA and I eat meat all the time but I am certainly
not under the illusion that just because I am smarter and more adaptable
than most animals, that I am somehow a supreme being whose life is much more
valuable than theirs. I think respect for animal life is a good thing and
shows that at least some in society are moving toward cooperation instead of
competition. I believe it is the only way we will advance as a society.

This is not a personal attack, just an observation.