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Save the Sea Kittens!

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  January 10th, 2009 at 09:42 AM  | 

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Watching FNC this morning, I was reminded of a story I saw yesterday on Neal’s Nuze.

Apparently, our friends at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to rename fish as Sea Kittens!

Apparently, PETA thinks that this will remind us that fish have feelings, relationships and families.  By renaming them “sea kittens,” they hope to create sympathy for creatures of the piscene persuasion.  After all, who would eat a kitten?

I guess the folks at PETA haven’t been to a Chinese restaurant lately…

Let’s see, 1) eating animal protein is was major driver of the evolution of the human brain.  2) Today, eating animal protein is necessary for healthy and normal development of our brains as children.  3) Omega-3 fish oils have been shown to lower cholesterol.  4) Meanwhile soy protein, which vegans advocate should replace animal protein in our, raises cholesterol and promotes higher estrogen levels.

No wonder the folks at PETA think this campaign will turn people away from fish.  They’re emotions are out of whack due to artificially high estrogen, which makes them think those chest pains they’re having are really sympathy for the fish, and their brains aren’t developed enough to realize that this idea is just plain stupid!

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  • Vladimir

    New name: Grilled sea kitten topped with minced puppy brains.

    A rose by another name smells as sweet. Make mine with extra puppy brains, please.

    • http://www.fredmaidment.com Fred Maidment

      …so that plate looks pretty disgusting to me!

      • Vladimir

        You are missing one of the things that makes life worth living.

        • Achance

          which had been in the Pacific Ocean less than two hours before I ate him.

          We haven’t had a personal use king crab season in two years and none is in sight. You can still get king crab but it is almost all from the Bering Sea. I suspect that the BHO Administration is going to find that the fisheries are damaging that fragile ecosystem and endangering the sea otter, so pretty soon, The Deadliest Catch will only be re-runs.

          • redneck_hippie

            took less than half an hour when I lived on a lake in Florida.

            My next door neighbor / landlord caught a 14 pound large mouth bass from the lake behind his house one fine Easter Sunday morning. My mother also caught a 7.5 pounder, fishing off the pier across the sand road from our house. She is a far cry from a fisherwoman. My parents just happened to be down for a week’s visit from Illinois. She decided to stuff it just to show Dad, who owned a boat and fished Lake Michigan.

          • Achance

            if you’re catching them for personal use – of course, that’s why nobody ever does it. If you have a cooker on the boat, you can just crack them and cook them right out of the pot. I’ve never done such a thing, but I’ve heard that they are even better. The closest crabbing grounds are about a half hour from my slip. Takes a while to pull the pots; they’re usually in three to five hundred feet of water. Then you reset them and mark your spots on the chartplotter and bring them back to the dock where fish and game is always curious about what you caught and might just whip out their calipers to make sure you didn’t take any females or undersized males. They are BAD serious about this stuff! So, if you dress them at the dock like you’re supposed to, the freshest you can have them is an hour or so if you eat them on the boat or a couple hours if you take them home.

            Even though I was born and raised in Georgia, I wouldn’t have a clue how to catch fish down there with anything other than a cane pole and red wiggler on a farm pond. I’m starting to think about snowbirding some, so I guess I’d better either do some reading or start watching some of those bass fishing shows. One of those hot rod bass boats looks like fun, but it would sure take some getting used to that shallow water. I start getting nervous with less than a hundred feet under me. If you’ve ever seen any pictures of Southeast Alaska, what’s under the water looks just like whats above it, lots of almost straight up and down. You can bee in three hundred feet of water trolling along a rocky shoreline only twenty or thirty feet away. Keeps you on your toes!

          • CJB68

               Just one more reason I don’t attend rock concerts or buy albums by artists who presently support the group.  They belong to the lunatic republics infesting parts of California and the west coast.

          • Vladimir

            …has to do with growing up where no one knew how to prepare it properly.

            And I say this with all due respect, having spent my formative years in Kansas and Oklahoma. When your introduction to “seafood” is school-cafeteria salmon croquettes (aka hockey pucks) and deep-fried to beejeezus Long John Silver’s Atlantic Sea Kitten, it’s completely understandable that a lot of folks can’t stand seafood.

            I couldn’t stand seafood when I was a kid.

            Now, after living in South LA for most of the last 30 years, I can see that most of the objectionable qualities I associated with seafood are from mistakes made in its preparation.

            The two most common mistakes: overcooking and lack of attention to fry grease. Oh, and using old or freezer-burnt fish.

            Speckled trout fresh out of the Gulf, lightly coated in corn flour and quickly fried to a light golden color – pure ambrosia. Served up on a french loaf “dressed” – you’ll slap your mama.

          • Achance

            that you get in the school cafeteria or any place other than an expensive restaurant or a really good grocery store is Pink or Chum Salmon that nobody here will even eat. Those things stay on my boat just long enough to get the hook out usually, though I will confess to smoking a few pinks some years if I don’t do so well with Silvers (coho). We always burn a lot of gas chasing the wily and elusive King Salmon, but never really do well. There’s always the hope of “The Big One” so we keep doing it. Two or three Kings is a pretty good seasn for us. We fish mostly for Silvers from late July until the weather gets too crummy in September or early October. We can a little, freeze a good bit, smoke a LOT, and eat some fresh. I try to keep those smokers running constantly in August and September. Didn’t get much this year though. Between $5/gas at 1 mile per gallon and truly nasty, cold, rainy weather, it just wasn’t worth it to go so much; put less than a hundred hours on my engines for the first time ever.

          • http://www.fredmaidment.com Fred Maidment

            …New York and DC Area/New Jersey. Mom has been fishing and cooking fish since she was a small girl. Her father was a merchant sailor. My dad grew up on the Jersey shore and hunting Chesapeake crab. They know how to prepare fish.

            I just don’t like it.

            Actually, I had some alder smoked salmon in Seattle once. That was actually pretty good… Of course, that was a $50 fish…

          • Achance

            was not a fresh fish when it was caught. Once salmon hit brackish or fresh water, they’re dying. The lucky and strong ones breed before they die. They turn dark and basically are just decomposing as their life ebbs away. Unknowledgable or unscrupulous fishermen will take fish that are way too ripe sometimes.

            A fresh, bright coho (silver) or chinook (king) salmon is a wonderous thing when properly prepared. And friends don’t let friends eat farmed fish; smelly, mushy, chemical ridden things! If you’re offered salmon always ask the provenance. Almost all Atlantic or South American salmon is farmed. You want wild Pacific Salmon, preferably wild Alaska Salmon.

  • Amy Miller

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_LIBERATED_LOBSTER?SITE=AP

    FREE TEH LOBSTERS!!!! Or, as I like to call them, “Adorable fwuffily snuggiwy sea hampsters!”

    …Can I get a side of sea kitteh with that?

    • From ME to You

      Actually……”George, as he was called, would probably have not tasted all that good! The older the tougher!!!

      Note that the lobster was caught in “CANADIAN” waters!!
      If he had been caught in Maine waters he would have been thrown back because he was oversized (carapace over 5″ long) and therefore illegal!!

      This is a conservation measure designed to keep the breeding stock in the water!!!

      All Eastern seaboard states and provinces have a lower limit (3¼” in Maine) but only the US states have an upper limit!!
      So much for the conservation movement in the paradise called Cananda!!

      • From ME to You

        “…the paradise called Cananda Canada!!!

        I really do miss preview!!!!

        • Susannah

          Where you been From ME to You? I haven’t seen you around. I recently wrote a diary and I didn’t get any of the usual lobsters on it. I was sad. :-(

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        • bs

          One of your best efforts, $.

          • $peciallist

            I stole it because It’s Epic!…

          • Susannah

            I’m totally spoiled to his pictures and From Me to You’s lobsters appearing in my diaries (or other people’s diaries). They both make me smile. :-)

        • redneck_hippie

          I’m actually (re)reading Moby-Dick. Didn’t realize it before, but did you know it’s 214 pages of rambling metaphysical stuff before the first There she blows?

          • http://www.fredmaidment.com Fred Maidment

            …yes. Yes, as a matter of fact I did know that.

        • CJB68
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  • George Claghorn

    Kittens of the Sea? D–n it, now I’m really confused.

  • George Claghorn

    …from the fact that everyone who is a member of PETA is certifiably insane that they have never eaten fish in their life?

  • Vladimir

    This will leave the poor little dear completely bumfuzzled.

    She was still trying to sort out if Chicken of the Sea was fish or chicken – now there’s another choice in the mix.

  • Achance

    her try to work through the problem for a couple of hours.

  • Vladimir
  • Achance

    I’d even talk to her if I had to, but not for long.

  • IJB
  • MNConservative

    you’re from Alaska, it’s TOTALLY gone now.

  • Achance

    since the mid-eighties back when all they did was run music videos. My stepkids all knew that MTV was not to be on a TV in my presence.

    I look at her the same way I’d look at a particularly attractive stripper; it would just take more money to get her clothes off.

  • izoneguy

    I blocked MTV so my kids can’t see that trash.
    It all thuggish left wing dribble now.