PETA Serves Up Fresh “Kitten Fillets” at Surfers Paradise

To mark World Day for Farmed Animals, a PETA “catmonger” set up shop under the iconic Surfer’s Paradise arch today, serving mock kitten fillets on trays of ice for $10 a kilo, and “whole boiled kittens” for $15 per kilo to encourage passers-by to see fish as intelligent, feeling individuals and opt for vegan food instead. This “Stop Speciesism” stall was part of PETA’s work to challenge the prejudiced notion that the differences between humans and other animals warrant the torturing, killing, and eating of those animals.

When it comes to being playful, inquisitive, and sensitive to pain, fish are no different from the cats who share our homes. They exchange knowledge and have long memories and cultural traditions.

More fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined – they’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted by the billion, often while they’re still conscious.

People may not realise that, in addition to wild-caught animals, up to 120 billion farmed fish – raised in filthy, crowded enclosures – are slaughtered for food each year. Fish are playful, inquisitive, and sensitive to pain and enjoy rich social lives, and in all the ways that matter, they are no different to the cats many of us share our homes with. PETA urges everyone to sea things differently and to leave all animals – whether they have fur or fins – off their plates.

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