My Letter To the US Fish And Wildlife Service Concerning Sea Kittens

Posted by admin on 2009 January 10

You may or may not have heard about the sea kittens campaign currently being promoted by PETA. For a more scientific take, you might want to check their Fishing Hurts site. Sometimes websites have forms to fill out with boilerplate to support a cause, and sometimes I do that, because I actually support the cause. But other times I use their own tools to play a little subversion, so here’s what I wrote to Save the Sea Kittens.

Live Up to Your Word to Conserve and Protect: Promote Responsible Fishing

The Fish and Wildlife Service is doing a heckuva job in its promotion of fishing. I like fish, fish are tasty to eat! Keep up the good work, but try to do something about that Mercury. It used to be I could chow down on some good Minke whale sashimi or a thick, char-broiled tuna steak without a worry in the world. Nowadays the threat of cumulative Mercury poisoning is always in the back of my mind when eating certain kinds of sea-going piscean creatues.

Also, I hear fish stocks are being depleted in all the world’s oceans even as we find more and more about the benefits of eating lots of fish. Please see what you can do about controlling population growth in some of these high growth countries. I hear education is probably the best way to decrease fertility.

Sincerely,

Obama Redneck