PETA wants memorial where fish died in Irvine car crash
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 12:00AM 
PETA says there's nothing fishy about a memorial sign they want up in Irvine commemorating the hundreds of fish killed in a traffic accident while on the way to market.
On behalf of a leading animal rights group, an Irvine woman is asking the city to erect a memorial at the street corner where 1,600 pounds of live fish died this month when a container truck was involved in a three-vehicle crash.
Dina Kourda, a volunteer with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote to the Irvine Public Works Department to request that a sign be placed at the intersection of Walnut and Yale avenues to honor the lives of the fish -- believed to be saltwater bass -- lost in the accident.
The fish, the Orange County Register reported, were being hauled to a Ranch 99 Market, an Asian supermarket.
LINK (via The LA Times)
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This is just one more reason that PETA is such a piece of shit. And it isn't because there's no inhumane treatment or suffering of animals. It's because they are always going for high-profile, publicized nonsense rather than actually doing anything to positively influence the lives of animals (farm and otherwise). If they would focus on small improvements in the treatment of livestock in CAFOs and other similar operations, the impact multiplied against the millions of animals whose lives were marginally improved would be immense. Instead we get Pam Anderson and this type of publicity grab that doesn't accomplish anything. I'm sure you all remember that they were, for a time, focused on protesting catch-and-release fishing. Give me a break.