Some clever techies confused PETA supporters today by pulling a well-executed prank against their campaign to “re-brand” fish as sea kittens.
For at least a couple hours today, the internet was abuzz with the fact that www.SeaKittens.com had an Omaha Steaks ad smack-dab at the top of the page. But PETA can’t really be that careless, right?
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Turns out that the page is a line-by-line duplicate of PETA’s actual sea kittens campaign site, but it’s not owned by PETA at all. According to Alley Insider, PETA has confirmed that the site is a parody and that they are not running any steak ads.
All jokes aside, giving up meat is one of the best ways you can help stop the advancement of global warming and air and water pollution.
More information about the environmental impact of meat:
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- Meat is murder on the environment
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Alex Felsinger
Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars.
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Check out this video PETA made: http://meat.org
what’s the address for the fake site??
This morning, I am gonna walk to Carls Jr. and have me a double cheese burger.
Meat is murder?
Wheat is murder too.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill
PETA can kiss my ass.
I am pretty sure that this is my screen shot, thank you for not giving credit where it is due.
That was definitely a funny parody haha!
SEABIRDS EAT SEA KITENS, SEALS EAT SEA KITTENS,BIGGER SEA KITTEN EAT LITTLE SEA KITTENS AND CATS EAT SEA KITTENS
http://www.petakillsanimals.com
they beleive its perfectly fine to kill REAL kittens and puppies, but eating a fish is bad!bad!bad!
hypocritical frauds, the whole damned lot of them. they say even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS they would be against it, yet a senior VP is insulin dependant- and justifies it with saying HER LIFE is more important than yours.
save animals! kill PETA!
PETA are a bunch of stupid idiots i mean if wouldnt be so bad if they skpt their rediclous ideas to themselves but now their trying to force their stupid veganism on us all through their tastless ads and stupid protests HEY PETA HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN
joe had a good comment until he blew it all at the end with a personal attack. Perhaps he can learn not to make himself look so foolish in the future thus adding more weight to his comments. Sad really.
Wow, so none of you ignorant toolboxes bothered reading the links after the article, eh? Good work. There is plenty of evidence to back it up.
That said… sea kittens… fucking moronic. I’m a vegetarian and I hate PETA with the burning intensity of a million suns. The ‘views’ of their halfwit lackeys may be the polar opposite of some of yours, but you have one thing in common: an appalling lack of basic reasoning skills.
Wow, it is amazing the amount of ignorant responses this article has provoked.
To all the people who posted that not eating meat would increase global plant production: What do you think the animals you eat are currently eating? Air?
Wrong! Animals eat plants, and it takes 16 pounds of plants to produce 1 pound of meat, so if everyone stopped eating meat then global crop production would be reduced, not increased. Anyone who cannot do that kind of simple math in their head is an idiot. Oh wait, you ARE meat eaters, so I guess that goes without saying.
Now if only meat eating caused early infertility, we might be spared the genetically watered-down troglodytes you flesh addicts will inflict on the next generation.
PETA should just give up human beings are always going to eat meat! No matter what type of meat it is. PETA should be educating people where there food comes from and how the animals are treated in those mass production farms. People are severely detached from their food. PETA is now adding to the problem by calling fish “sea kittens!” I thought fish was the chicken of the sea?
“Interesting article… up until the last paragraph which seems just slapped in there as blatant propoganda.”
The truth hurts doesn’t it, man you people are babies. Just because you don’t want to give up something doesn’t mean you have to deny it’s legitimacy, just admit that you’re a little greedy prat rather then living under the pretense that you actually care about the planet.
Research shows that pretentious hot air produced by PETA is the primary cause of global warming. The good news is that scientists have found a way to patch the hole in the ozone layer with sea kittens.
I taught my sea-kitten how to play fetch…fetch the tartar sauce, that is! All jokes aside, calling fish “sea kittens” is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while. Laughing so hard about this idiotic campaign made me hungry for some grilled sea kitten, with side orders of pond puppy and ocean ocelot.
Fantastic prank. Makes me hungry for salmon, I’m going to take some out of the freezer now.
peta doesn’t challenge people to think, peta tries to force their vies upon others.
the simple fact of the matter is that at this point, eating meat is a matter of choice. no screaming from vegetarians is going to stop my meat-eating ways, and no mocking from meat-eaters is going to stop veggies from not eating meat.
peta members seem to have this overzealous need to force their views upon others when their views are merely a matter of opinion.
Meat consumption is the LEAST of our worries in regards to global warming, and the fact that this blogger would even elude to this being a significant cause is laughable. why do peta supporters have to grope so hard for another reason to reinforce their views?
does anyone actually think this “sea kitten” is anything other than moronic? i would love to meet the person who decided this was a good idea and give them a swift kick to the nuts (if male) or punch to the left tit (if female) for being this stupid. yes, the left one. why? because my right arm is the strongest.
I’m an omnivore, I will not give up meat or vegetables.
I don’t like the taste of fish to begin with.
Several places, including China, eat cats. Wonder if this stupid campaign will increase the overall fish or cat consumption…
peta challenges people to think about the food we eat, but we ridicule them for doing so. I am not a vegi eater but it doesn’t (does) hurt to know how our food is produced.
stop ridiculing peta and look at their arguments and if you disagree, challenge them in an academic environment.
Methane is a trace gas, kiddies: 1750 parts per BILLION. That’s 0.000175 percent of the atmosphere.
The main greenhouse gas is water vapor, and that’s not going away.