what exactly is in fake fish?
"PETA Calls For Town Of Fishkill To Change Name
Last Update: 7/14/2005 10:23:44 AM(Fishkill, NY)
AP 07/14/05 --
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for the town of Fishkill to change its name.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that PETA wants the town to be known as FishingHurts.com, which just happens to be the Internet address for a PETA Web site dedicated to the group's "Fish Empathy Project."
Fishkill officials weren't biting Wednesday. The name Fishkill is actually derived from two Dutch words: Vis, for fish, and Kill, for stream or creek. PETA acknowledges the true meaning of the name, but said most who see Fishkill on a map wouldn't know that.
PETA also offered to donate $15,000 worth of a soy-based, faux-fish product for school students in the town if the name is changed."
I literally hurt from laughing at PETA. First Edward Furlong frees grocery store lobsters in the name of PETA, now this. I agree that it's not ok for baby chicks to have their beaks ripped off for chicken nuggets and that veal isn't so great that we should force-feed calves to get it...but this, this just negates everything PETA does that's remotely logical. I'd say it was a joke if I couldn't see them do this, it's just a amazingly stupid stupid stunt that just screams "publicity." I just got an image of a prospective college student telling an interviewer "I'm from fishinghurts.com. No really. Shut up. Everyone always laughs at my town! I hate PETA!"
I support the people that want to be vegetarians and those so into self-torture that they follow a vegan diet-- more steak for me. I couldn't do it. I tried to be a vegetarian in college, because for some reason I thought the crunchy hippie people had the right idea. I took vitamins like they said, and gave up red meat and fish, and all meat products, nothing with beef broth, nada. After a month or so I'd been living on chicken (I couldn't give that up) and salad and I wanted a sausage pizza like a crackhead wants rock. I've tried some of that pseudo-meat junk, and it's just like masturbation-- kinda like the real thing, but not really. But hey, maybe that "soy-based faux-fish product" would be better. I call Not It on trying it.
One thing does worry me about meat products, though. "mechanically separated chicken" being one of the first ingredients in Slim-Jims. That concerns me. Bad images.
Ron White said it best with "We didn't climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots."
posted by Epiphany Grove @ 2:31 AM
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Hey,
I think that any progress these people make is just as easily undone when they continue to battle such ridiculous issues. And, yeah, I'm sure that there's someone out there to triumph every "cause" no matter how trivial but in the bigger picture, it's no wonder wider acceptance eludes them.
On the subject of chicken: if you eat it, do not call yourself a vegetarian.
Oh, I know that now. It was mostly a joke about myself when I was 19. I was all about acceptance, even if I wasn't really part of the group-- not my brightest moment, but definitely amusing to me now.
i call not it as well on the faux-fish. there is this restaurant in Boston called Buddha's Delight -- and it's a vegetarian asian cuisine place... But the thing is, on the menu they had shit like - General Tsao's "Chicken" and "Pork" Lo Mein. Fuckin' weird as hell to order meat products that are "..."'d Not to mention the fact that it was all nasty -- and spongy -- and really just meat-hue dyed tofu pieces with a hint of the flavor of said meat...
guh-ross
the place should've been called Buddha's "Delight" -- the only decent thing they had on the menu was a coconut milkshake.
no quotes...thank god.
but here's my question -- if vegetarians are so anti eating animals -- why are they ok with the taste of them? y'know like morningstar farms corn dogs & sausages and shit... so you're ok with the sensation of flesh in your mouth, but you just don't want any animals to die for it?
sounds a bit bass-ackwards to me.
:o)
Wouldn't it piss them off to find out plants had feelings? I mean, if I can help my violet plant grow by talking nicely to it...should I feel badly for eating other plants? Is salad bad now? (I'll try not to sound too happy) haha
To each their own, but I'll still with eating meat.
I've had that tofu "meat" stuff in chinese food before. GAG. I can eat tofu, it tastes a little like what you cook it with, but it's so bland.
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