PETA admits cruelty might not do the trick

We note with interest that the Center For Consumer Freedom has hit another nail squarely where it does the most good…as its press release on November 17 quotes a PETA spokesperson as admitting what must be, for them, a sad reality: People may not care particularly whether or not fish feel distress when they are caught. Realizing this, PETA has stooped to claiming that fish are not good food for people, and may be contaminated with pollutants and poisons. This tactic is not new, nor is it unique to PETA. A number of animal rights and environmentalist groups commonly use scare tactics about animal-origin food items; seals, whales, fish, cattle, pork, all have been claimed hazardous to our health for one reason or another. Instead of consuming animal products, we should all get our protein from beans, and we should all stop reproducing, because there are just too many of us. A vegetarian world, according to PETA and other animal rights organizations would be a happier, healthier, kinder world.

Never mind that total vegetarianism would rob us all (people and animals) of habitat space, and never mind that our beloved livestock would become extinct while game animals would overrun the bean fields.

We don't think the vegetarian utopia shall come to pass. People are omnivores. They want beef with their beans, and chips with their fish, and hope for the best when it comes to population control. Perhaps the best of all possible worlds shall come about; vegetarians who are concerned about world overpopulation may decide not to add their genes to the pool, while the rest of us continue our meat-enhanced lives in blessed silence from that quarter.