28.08.2024
Sydney – On the eve of World Day for the End of Speciesism (31 August), a PETA “catmonger” set up shop at Manly Corso today, serving mock kitten fillets on trays of ice” for $10 a kilo, and “whole kitten specials” for $15 per kilo to encourage passers-by to see fish as intelligent, feeling individuals and opt for vegan food instead. This was part of PETA’s efforts to challenge the prejudiced notion that the differences between humans and other animals warrant torturing, killing, and eating members of other species.
More images and video are available here. Credit: Chrissie Hall
“In all the ways that matter, fish are no different to the cats many of us share our homes with. Fish are playful, inquisitive, and sensitive to pain and enjoy rich social lives, yet more fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined,” says PETA Campaigns Advisor Mimi Bekhechi. “PETA urges everyone to sea things differently and to leave all animals – whether they have fur or fins – off their plates.”
Fish can use tools, and they share knowledge and have long memories. Numerous scientific reports confirm that fish feel pain in a manner strikingly similar to the way mammals do. Yet, to feed our appetite for their flesh, they’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted by the billion – often while they’re still conscious. In addition, 38 million tonnes of other aquatic animals are unintentionally caught annually, and discarded ghost gear, the most destructive form of ocean plastic, continues to ensnare and kill animals long after boats move on. Fishing trawlers release as much carbon dioxide – 1 gigaton every year – as the entire aviation industry.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.au and follow the group on Facebook and Instagram.
Contact:
Sascha Camilli Media@peta.org.au
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