Today we give a tip o’ the carp
To the bitterlings at PETA
Who’ve thought of yet another way
To make us better eatas.
Agog at all our fishy friends
That on sharp hooks have bitten,
They’ve launched a cutesy-boots campaign
Called, yes, “Save the Sea Kitten!”
If fish were “kittens,” so they say,
You’d view them differently—
Your tuna would change if today’s lunch
Were Kitten of the Sea.
They’ve even asked that fishy towns
Give name-changing a look;
As one administrator said,
“Who wants to be on the hook*
(* ... for being insensitive to kittens.” OK, I totally killed the meter there, but seriously, this guy missed his calling.)
Fish, they say, have feelings too
They sing, and play with rocks
The algae is their ball of yarn
The sea their litterbox.
Time will tell if PETA’s stunt
Can really rock the boat—
Meanwhile, I end my pescy ode
With one more little note:
If this all seems a stretch to you
And maybe kinda wussy,
Perhaps, like Piven, mercury
Will keep you from eating—uh, fish.
Black (fly) magic
Ask Umbra on canned and frozen foods
Climate-news poem: Protest edition
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Erik Hoffner Posted 10:38 am
15 Jan 2009
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PermieWriter Posted 12:13 pm
16 Jan 2009
There are perfectly good reasons to limit one's consumption of fish, but this campaign is only going to convince a few room-temp IQ college girls (who will fail to remember their pledge the next time they're face to face with a basket of fish and chips).
Get a brain, PETA. Several, please.
Eat what you grow, grow what you eat
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