The Environment Group’s ‘Sustainable Fishing’ campaign is under attack: Roadside warning near headquarters
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February 18, 2022
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Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Oakland, Calif. – Right on World Whale Day (February 20), PETA held sky high message near Greenpeace’s headquarters, challenges the environmental group’s new “sustainable seafood” initiative: “Don’t eat fish. Fishing gear kills 300,000 whales and dolphins annually. “This claim follows PETA’s vegan enhancement to Greenpeace’s 1975 historic landmark”Protect whalesCampaign”—a new, progressive method that asks people to let fish enjoy their aquatic life, undisturbed.
PETA notes that entanglement in fishing gear is the biggest threat to the survival of many of the world’s 86 crustaceans. and the eating of marine life contributes to the destruction of ocean ecosystems. PETA also points out that in the fishing industry, even endangered whales are callously referred to as “fishing” — a term for a “no target” animal that is caught or entangled in fishing nets or other equipment and then simply thrown away and left to die (if they weren’t already).
“Just as opponents of whaling would never eat whale meat, environmentalists really shouldn’t eat fish,” said PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA reminds everyone that only one The friendly, respectful and sustainable way of eating marine animals is vegan. ”
Fish are now known to have mammal-like acute pain sensations, have long-term memories, and communicate with each other using hisses, calls, and other low-frequency sounds that humans can only hear. heard with special instruments – but they were crushed, crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted, all while still conscious. More fish are killed for food each year – billions of them in US waters – than all other animals combined.
PETA – whose motto is, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and opposes speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy – notes that today many fish imitation options availableincluding Gardein’s f’sh filetsGood Catch’s Plant-based tunaNew Wave Foods ‘new’ vegetable shrimpand Sophie’s Kitchen’s Vegan crab cakes.
Billboard at address 503 40order St., Oakland.
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