L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

Sea Kittens: It’s What’s for Dinner

January 16, 2009 on 5:35 pm | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Found, General Musing

Sea Kittens? Sea Kittens? Was this some adorable, cuddly creature I’d somehow missed? I started to get excited, but then I pawsed. I had a purrmonition something was amiss. Furtunately, I followed my instincts and hunted down the truth.

It’s a plot… I mean marketing campaign… by PETA to make fish too cute to eat. That’s right. Sea Kittens are FISH.

Is there no depth so low PETA won’t sink to it? Apparently not. In an attempt to give fish a PR makeover that would make them unpalatable as a food source, they are drowning kittens.

I have gotten this advice myself. Every time I yowl about how my YouTube videos languish in obscurity, someone suggests adding pictures of kittens. I came within a whisker of going for it but backed off because it would be cynical and manipulative. Not that I’m suggesting PETA is cynical and manipulative! No sir!

But I’m thinking of starting a competing campaign to rename fish “Sea Maggots” or “Sea Turds.” It would have the same effect, but I suppose it wouldn’t sell as many t-shirts.

Now I’ve got a hankerin’ for a steamin’ bowl o’ Sea Kitten chowder. Mmmmm!

I want to say I am not amewzed.

But I am.