PETA rebrands fish... now in "sea kitten" flavor!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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When I think of all the abuse Tomatoes have suffered as living things, it makes me want to eat them ... even more. They've been diced, sliced, made into paste, ketchup, mixed with beef... such cruel things have happened to these tomatoes and a tomato is a living thing...

Til you pluck it from the vine and have your way with it. Nom Nom Nom.

That's why the tomatoes eventually attacked us, I seen a movie on it. But we won that war, so they're our delicious little slaves again. That'll teach them to become sentient and stage an uprising.

[TheGrandMom]

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The eggplants were behind the tomatoes uprising. I hear that the zucchini are on the fence and if they decide to..........*shudders*..........

[Feba]

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Personally, I think this is aimed at a younger audience.

That could be too, and it wouldn't surprise me. Exploitative, of course, but not any worse than all of the other crap children are indoctrinated with.

[Gyotsha]

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Sea kitten is delicious though They're also quite healthy.

[DieselBoy09]

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It's very hard to eat something you perceive as a cute, living thing. After awhile, it actually makes it hard to start eating meat again, when you think of what you're eating in anything other than an abstract sense; I still have trouble eating animal products if I start to really think about where my food came from.

(I see that for some it could be, and yes I agree with TGM, the kids. Rawr)

I honestly don't find it hard. Call me cruel or something, but its like if the world broke down, I would eat my dog if it got bad enough (I would much rather use her as a tool to bring me food that I can't keep up with though). I would eat puppies and kittens if I didn't think it was probably going to taste horrible, not be that nutritious and also a waste, as the animal will produce more meat later in life, if not potentially be used for something a side from a meal down the road. In fact when I eat meat, I often try to imagine exactly where on the animal the part I'm eating is directly from. Its like a chicken breast, when I eat it I look at the shape and do a mental image of like a cut out chicken and assign to just where it might go shape wise, often times I have a hard time imagining just where on the chicken it exactly came from as the breast looks a little dfferent from when I've seen whole chickens.

I do however think its a little dumb to eat baby deer, lamb, goat or cow as I see it as a waste. Afterall, I can let that thing grow larger and then eat it, use its milk and whatever else I could use. Hell, if oil were to disappear over night and the electric infrastructure crumbled, you would find me stealing cow chips and charcoal.

I've just really come to this mentality that its how things just kind of work biologically. You weigh the pros and the cons, you look at the available population and the impact your consumption has on it, and then what exactly you need in your diet. You don't need meat every day believe it or not. In fact red meat is something of a problem for the human digestive tract as it is harder to digest. Buffolo (forgive my sp if its wrong, been scoring stories from a psychological sample all night) is wonderful, but also a pain on your tract and will kill your dogs if you ever feed it to them. Also, we need lots of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains; things the average American diet lacks significantly. Shit, while I'm being a pretentious a-hole and preaching, eat less fish, not because its bad but because we're fishing the oceans EMPTY.

[Feba]

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Talking about efficiency in regards to meat eating is just stupid. It's incredibly wasteful. Think about how much food a cow eats in a day. Now think about how many days it takes to raise it to slaughter. That's a ton of food. And that's not even counting all of the energy it takes to take care of them day-to-day, slaughtering them, and transporting the meat.

Of course in a disaster scenario, you do what you have to to survive. After a point, if you're faced with eating your friend's corpse or starving, you would probably give in and make Beef de John; I probably would. But having something for an emergency, Plan B, doesn't mean you should use it day to day.

[Van'derfel]

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It's very hard to eat something you perceive as a cute, living thing.

That's cute?

[Karinya]

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Do you think PETA will try to force carnivorous animals to eat Tofu next because it's cruel to Herbivores?

I mean forcing Humans out of the food chain is hypocritical if they don't force other animals that eat meat out of the food chain too.

Like, for example, land kittens, which will happily eat sea kitten, the cannibalistic little devils. I think they didn't quite think that one through.
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Talking about efficiency in regards to meat eating is just stupid. It's incredibly wasteful. Think about how much food a cow eats in a day. Now think about how many days it takes to raise it to slaughter. That's a ton of food. And that's not even counting all of the energy it takes to take care of them day-to-day, slaughtering them, and transporting the meat.

Feeding cows corn is very wasteful, yes. But originally (and still in some cultures) cows were raised on grass, which isn't human edible, so the problem of wasting it wasn't a problem. Taking care of cows is work, yes, but taking care of food plants is also work, and quite a lot of it. And relative to nutritional value transporting beef is cheaper and easier than transporting an equivalent (i.e. much larger) amount of grain, soybeans, etc.

Eventually the demand got out of hand and grazing wasn't enough, but originally herding food animals was a big improvement over previous methods of getting food, which is why it was adopted so widely. (And that's even before refrigeration - so the main method of transporting meat was convincing the animal to walk to where you wanted to eat it.)

[Feba]

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Feeding cows corn is very wasteful, yes. But originally (and still in some cultures) cows were raised on grass, which isn't human edible, so the problem of wasting it wasn't a problem. Taking care of cows is work, yes, but taking care of food plants is also work, and quite a lot of it. And relative to nutritional value transporting beef is cheaper and easier than transporting an equivalent (i.e. much larger) amount of grain, soybeans, etc.

1- Leaving grassland is just as wasteful. If you have the means to raise cattle on it, nowadays, you have the means to raise food on it. We can debate over whether cavemen had the right idea, but that doesn't mean that still applies in modern times.

2- Of course producing food takes energy. When you feed livestock, that food doesn't magically appear. The energy that it takes to make that food goes into the energy it takes to raise the cow. And while we're on the subject of environmental damage, modern cattle raising produces huge amounts of methane.

3- Meat may be more dense in nutritional content, but that doesn't make it better for shipping. You're going to be spending money to transport the vegetables to the cows anyway, but on top of that, meat shipping generally requires refrigeration that vegetables do not. Any place which in modern times is limited by the VOLUME you can ship is also probably not the best place to be preparing meat. Vegetables may take up more volume and weight per meal, but that's not really a disadvantage.

[Amberly]

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[Empedocles]

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I'm waiting for the Rick Astley lyrics.

[aegina]

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Awww!! It's so cute!!!

*tries to pet the kitty*

OW!!!!!!

[Feba]

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Thread over.

[Firewind]

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I can't begin to describe how horrifying that image is

[Ziero]

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But it's not really as absurd as it seems. If they had the marketing/PR muscle to push this, it could work very well. It's very hard to eat something you perceive as a cute, living thing. After awhile, it actually makes it hard to start eating meat again, when you think of what you're eating in anything other than an abstract sense; I still have trouble eating animal products if I start to really think about where my food came from.

Pigs can be down right adorable, but that don't stop me from enjoying the taste of those magical little animal's flesh. I mean ham, pork chops AND bacon, all from the same animal? Don't tell me that thing wasn't meant to be food!

The animal's name means jack all of whether I'm gonna eat it or not.

P.S. PETA stole this idea from South Park. Only South Park did it right.