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October 19, 2023
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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
Miami – A arguable PETA attraction that sparked a public outcry within the U.Okay. as it equates consuming fish to consuming cats is coming to the South Seashore Seafood Pageant on Saturday within the hopes that would-be attendees lose their appetites for sea lifestyles and go for loose Excellent Catch vegan tuna as a substitute. The lenticular show displays a smiling fishmonger retaining a limp fish from one attitude and a lifeless cat from some other.
When: Saturday, October 21, 12 midday
The place: On the intersection of Washington Road and 7th Boulevard, Miami Seashore
“Realizing that cats and aquatic animals each really feel ache and feature personalities makes vegan meals the most obvious, maximum appetizing selection,” says PETA Govt Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA asks festivalgoers to sea issues another way and depart all animals off their plates, whether or not they have got paws or claws, fur or fins.”
Fish really feel ache, proportion wisdom, and feature lengthy recollections and cultural traditions. Some woo possible companions via developing intricate artistic endeavors within the sand at the ocean ground, but extra fish are killed for meals every yr than all different animals blended. They’re impaled, beaten, suffocated, or lower open and gutted—incessantly whilst they’re mindful. Each and every one that is going vegan spares the lives of just about 200 animals every yr.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to consume” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that many vegan fish choices are to be had these days, similar to Gardein’s f’sh filets, New Wave Meals’ plant-based shrimp, and plenty of others.
For more info, please discuss with PETA.org, pay attention to The PETA Podcast, or practice the crowd on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.