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PETA Seeks to Rename Fish

Would you eat a "sea kitten?"

By STACY MORROW

Updated 7:25 PM CDT, Fri, Aug 7, 2009

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Would you be less likely to eat fish if they were called "sea kittens?"

That's what People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals hoped for as it took its latest mission to the Dallas World Aquarium on Friday.

"If everyone started calling fish 'sea kittens,' they'd be a lot less likely to cruelly confine them to aquariums, violently kill them for food, or painfully hook them for 'sport,'" said Ashley Byrne, PETA's Sea Kittens Campaign coordinator.

Byrne and a PETA member dressed as a sea kitten took their re-branding message to North Texas' younger generation using plush toys as bait.

"We think that kids will be the first to embrace the new name," Byrne said.

The kids also received stickers as PETA members told them that "sea kittens," like land kittens and puppies, are intelligent and deserve respect.

First Published: Aug 7, 2009 5:18 PM CDT

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Mmmm!"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9782849,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 06:00:06 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"ruckercountry","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"562006","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"This is so ridiculous. The name itself is completely insane. What's even the point? Scientists will continue to call them fish and continue to use their latin genus and species names for them. Even if they were to succeed in some kind of official change (and even then how could you possible do that?) there isn't a way to force people to call them anything different, so in the end, this is completely pointless. \n\nThey just continue to make themselves look stupid.They are quickly losing any credibility that they might have had by their constant silliness. I'm a vegitarian, but you don't see me trying to change the names of things just so people will have compassion. I won't have anything to do with these people. Staying away from them would get me more listeners than being associated with them in any way."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 08:13:14 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"562142","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"What a joke PETA is."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9846443,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 13:07:16 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"redatorre","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"562656","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"PETA is a PITA!"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":7918844,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 15:48:25 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"anonymous_user","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"563322","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"What about vegetables???????? They don't even have a chance to RUN AWAY!!!! At least an animal has a sporting chance to get away.... but NO... vegetables are STUCK in the ground and have NO CHANCE of escape!!!! AND..... do you thing THEY want to be eaten?????? If we had not been CREATED to eat plants and animals, GOD would have not given us mouths and TEETH!!! Instead, we would have straws for mouths, and sustinance would be in the form of food ponds which we would slurp up like milk-shakes..... the only thing that's required to be a card-carrying member of PETA is a lobotomy and no common sense.....!!!!!!"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9736880,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 16:32:53 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"Obscured1","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"563458","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Anyone who supports this group obviously has mental issues. If these people had their way, humanity would be starving because PETA feels eating anything is a violation of the beings \"rights\". Too bad I have a life, otherwise I'd be out at the the Aquarium throwing raw eggs at these people."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9862858,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"8 Aug 2009 23:40:59 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"RuhRoh","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"564741","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"I had some sea kitten yesterday, it was DELICIOUS!!!!"},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9889754,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"9 Aug 2009 19:04:48 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"urdaddy","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"567575","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Hmmm, kitty that smells like fish, count me in, hahahaha."},{"anonName":null,"pathToMedia":"396489_52690992","adminTags":null,"views":860,"createdBy":9476331,"createdByPathToPhoto":"116995/icons/defaultMember_116995_portrait.jpg","assocMediaId":null,"mediaName":"PETA Seeks to Rename Fish","parentThreadId":null,"mediaId":1033014,"tags":null,"anonSiteUrl":null,"assocMediaType":null,"createdAt":"17 Aug 2009 22:40:35 GMT","anonEmail":null,"isVisible":true,"approved":true,"numComments":9,"reviewed":true,"createdByUsername":"Sirus","pathToPreview":"","mediaType":"EXTERNALMEDIA","commentId":"628067","subject":"","averageRating":0,"body":"Humorous that they would try to name it after kittens, considering that in some cultures, they eat cats! And then there is the catfish. Anybody have second thoughts about eating it cause it had the word 'cat' in its name? Even if they manage to change the name, people will still eat it."}],"error":"","totPages":1}

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