Fishing For Dignity

Hurtling ever faster toward confirmed irrelevance, PETA has unleashed its most recent abomination - a charming little comic book (pictured) entitled "Your Daddy KILLS Animals!"

Subtitled "Ask your daddy why he's hooked on killing!" the comic (which follows the 2003 children's classic "Your Mommy Kills Animals") is posted on PETA's Fishing Hurts website, purveyor of Fish Flakes Trading Cards, which feature lovely cartoons of children vomiting and failing in school - presumably just two of the many consequences of ichthyocide.

In June, 2004, PETA's vegan campaign coordinator Matt Rice stated, "We would never use shock tactics with children; it wouldn't be right."

Agreed.

Yet the Center for Consumer Freedom notes that "PETA bragged last year that it reached over 2.3 million kids and teachers with its animal-rights propaganda."  In August, the Center published a thorough report on the reprehensible tactics PETA uses in its targeting of children.

Now, personally, I'm not wild on the idea of eating fish.  But that's only because I don't particularly enjoy seafood.  Especially when there are so many tastier creatures to eat - like milk-fed veal calves or the noble buffalo.

But I digress.  Appetites aside, PETA had better either think about a name change or begin according some ethical treatment to the corner of the animal kingdom known as juvenile homo sapiens.

Especially since the orgnization's own record of avoiding illegal animal slaughter and disposal is, well, blemished.

Elsewhere: Elephant in my Coffee