So, should we paper train them?
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 at 05:19 PM [GMT-6]

From the Wall Street Journal's Taste section, a longtime Friday treat, comes this wonderful account of more stupidity from PETA, who long ago raised the stupidity bar so high that few organizations (save, perhaps, Planned Parenthood) can hope to compete:

Somehow Goldfish Day won't be the same. For four decades, reports the Chicago Tribune, children in Glenview, Ill., have celebrated the day by jumping into Roosevelt Pool with nets and buckets in hopes of catching some of the 1,000 goldfish dumped into the water. But after a complaint about animal cruelty, authorities decided that the children will now scoop the goldfish out of 100-gallon tubs of fresh water and be educated about proper fish care. "We wouldn't find it acceptable to throw kittens or puppies into a pool," a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told the paper. "It is not more acceptable to throw fish into a pool."

Emphasis mine; stupidity all his (or hers, as the case may be).

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If the town council was clever, deliberately cancel the revised event at the last minute and set up a large sign at Roosevelt Pool saying.

"Goldfish Day has been cancelled entirely because of additional complaints from PETA.

Take your kids out for a burger instead."

Only when people directly realize that it's the organization itself that's at fault for ruining a fun event will public opinion turn against them.

It gets better. PETA doesn't just settle for restricting other people's choices in food, clothing, and recreation.

Now they've expanded into restricting what other people can say on the internet.

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/21/peta.htm

Posted by: Mr. Freen at August 13, 2004 09:20 PM

"We wouldn't find it acceptable to throw kittens or puppies into a pool,"

Maybe because cats and dgos don't live in water!!!

Posted by: Bert at August 14, 2004 01:33 AM
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