"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




I'm an
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem



Wednesday, June 29, 2005

"Like Poodle Burgers at a dog show"


This report from Reuters explains:

An animal rights group has called on one of the largest aquariums in the United States to stop serving fish to its visitors, likening the practice to grilling up "poodle burgers at a dog show."

"It's easy to think of fish as swimming vegetables but of all the places in the country where fish should get a fair shake it's an aquarium," said Karin Robertson, manager of the Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

I absolutely refuse to make any jokes based on the notion of "fish empathy."

It's hard to be a fish. You have to endure the hackneyed stereotype respecting your utter ignorance of water. There are all those hateful cartoons of you swimming through a sea of butter, trailing bread crumbs.

And I haven't had a decent poodle burger in a dog's age.

Comments on ""Like Poodle Burgers at a dog show""

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (9:58 PM) : 

And, on top of everything else, some people think of fish as swimming vegetables.

 

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