PETA wants memorial where fish died in Irvine car crash
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in News, PETA, fish in the news

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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