PETA to VT: End youth fishing program Animal rights group says fishing is cruel, promotes violence

[cali]

Fishing is cruel and encourages violence, so the state of Vermont should scrap its family and youth-oriented Let’s Go Fishing program, the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says.

“The only lesson that fishing teaches children is that violence is acceptable when it is directed against those who don’t look like them or are smaller and weaker than they are,” Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA, wrote in a letter, dated Monday, to Vermont Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Patrick Berry. “If cats or dogs were the victims of similar abuse, the perpetrators could be thrown in jail for cruelty to animals. A lack of understanding and knowledge about fish, especially among young people, allows this cruelty to continue.”

The Let’s Go Fishing program is “an organized effort to train a network of volunteers to teach and encourage young people and their families how to fish,” according to the Fish and Wildlife Department’s website. The effort emphasizes the themes of hands-on fishing, aquatic ecology and management, the importance of habitat conservation and ethics, according to the website.

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[badtoworse]

1. What would you expect from a group pushing breast milk ice cream?

[lame54]

7. 2 scoops of course

[HappyMe]

2. *sigh!* Good grief.

Fucking PETA. Here's an activity that families can do outside together, and they come along and try to crap on it.

[joeybee12]

3. From the group that thinks feral cats should be killed...

I stopped defending PETA when I found out that about them.

[NightWatcher]

4. PETA promotes violence...towards them

People need to hunt and fish to sustain a balance. Oh, and sushi is yummy.

[cali]

5. The summer my son turned 8 we went on a fishing binge

Several early mornings a week, we'd trot down the field to the brook and fish for brookies. We had such a great time- even though we often came back with nothing.

[RebelOne]

8. No, people do not need to hunt.

Why blast deer out of the woods when they can just go into supermarket and get prepackaged meat? Most hunters just hunt for the thrill of the kill, especially when they kill a big buck with 10-point or larger racks.

[JDPriestly]

10. People also hunt because there are too many deer

in their backyard and not enough vegetation to feed them. It's less cruel than letting the deer starve to death.

As for fishing??? What?

We went fishing summers when I was a child. Anyone who thinks it is violent has never tried it. You just sit there and wait. It teaches patience like nothing else.

[badtoworse]

11. Hire someone to kill the animals for you.

What is so humane about the way much of our meat and poultry is produced?

[Arcanetrance]

12. To be honest that prepackaged meat is terrible

Most if the time it's full of shit that's bad for the body in the long run. Also the taste of fresh meat is better than the store bought stuff.

[cali]

14. I don't know a single hunter who doesn't eat what they kill

And there are lots of reasons not to eat pre-packaged supermarket meat.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. Hardly factual, especially today

[loli phabay]

21. okay you go buy your meat full of crap, i will hunt mine for less money and i know its better meat

Plus what supermarket carries squirrel or even rabbit.

[Rex]

6. SO I guess we should arrest Buddha now?

Really, some of the shit they come up with just hurts their cause and does not help it in any way, shape or form.

[longship]

9. PETA == People Eating Tasty Animals.

I post that title because it pisses off PETA, always a good thing to do.

PETA is ridiculous.

I am all for animals, but PETA takes things to a point where one cannot successfully ridicule them. Poe's Law is self-applicable.

[Arcanetrance]

13. Peta is a joke

I devote alot of my time and money to animal groups but Peta is ridiculous. There are plenty of people who fish because they find it healthier than buying the crap in supermarkets.

[Honeycombe8]

19. I think PETA is against eating creatures, so the reason you give wouldn't make any difference.

I don't think PETA is a joke. They are an activist group, so things they do stir things up and sometimes go overboard. That's what activism is about.

But I would think they could prioritize a little better.

Still...it got me to thinking about fishing, though. So if that was their mission, they are accomplishing that to some small degree.

[zappaman]

15. Had excellent sushi last night.

PETA has become a caricature of itself.

[sarisataka]

16. I can assure PETA...

Every time I go fishing no fish are harmed.

[Honeycombe8]

18. Well, I suppose it is, now that I think of it. But shouldn't they be more focused

on the more egregious acts against creatures? Prioritize? there's no chance that this campaign will have an effect.

Still, it does get people to thinking, I guess, if that's PETA's point. It got me to thinking, anyway.

[yewberry]

20. Seriously, people? Are you this clueless?

Peta's main purpose with these campaigns is publicity. They want to get people talking about their ideas.

Imagine that, here you are talking about Peta and their ideas.

[Skip Intro]

22. 'zactly. And I have no problem with it. nt