02.10.2024
Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland – To mark World Day for Farmed Animals (October 2), a PETA “catmonger” set up shop under the iconic Surfer’s Paradise arch today, serving mock kitten fillets on trays of ice for $10 a kilo, and “whole boiled kittens” for $15 per kilo to encourage passers-by to see fish as intelligent, feeling individuals and opt for vegan food instead. This “Stop Speciesism” stall was part of PETA’s work to challenge the prejudiced notion that the differences between humans and other animals warrant the torturing, killing, and eating of those animals.
More images and video are available here. Credit: Josh Wong
“People may not realise that, in addition to wild-caught animals, up to 120 billion farmed fish – raised in filthy, crowded enclosures – are slaughtered for food each year,” says PETA Campaigns Advisor Mimi Bekhechi. “Fish are playful, inquisitive, and sensitive to pain and enjoy rich social lives, and in all the ways that matter, they are no different to the cats many of us share our homes with. 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 share knowledge, and they’ve been proved to 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 pollution, 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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