❓ Hon Ed Dermer asks if PETA's actions against the wool industry are now targeting the fishing industry. Hon Kim Chance confirms this, criticising PETA's tactics and views while highlighting the low turnout at a PETA protest.
AnsweredQoN 1071Legislative Council
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Is it the case that the animal liberation organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which has been threatening the operation of the wool industry, is now threatening the operation of the fishing industry? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank Hon Ed Dermer for asking what is undoubtedly the best question of the day. The answer is yes. PETA has a program entitled the fish empathy project, and I am sure members would like to hear about it. PETA’s director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich, claims that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals that are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat. He is reported as saying - No-one would ever put a hook through a dog’s or cat’s mouth . . . Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they’ll stop eating them. I believe that people are entitled to hold whatever view they wish to hold, no matter how loony that might be. However, PETA is different, because it actually threatens people’s livelihoods by standing over them, even though the retailers whom PETA extorts - because it uses the retailers as its leverage on the market - are usually not remotely connected to the practices to which PETA is objecting. This bunch of loonies have demonstrated just how extreme their position is. However, there is a bright side to the story, as was illustrated last weekend in Sydney, when PETA organised a mass protest to allow people to make their views known in support of PETA, because I am informed that only 15 people turned up to the mass protest.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank Hon Ed Dermer for asking what is undoubtedly the best question of the day. The answer is yes. PETA has a program entitled the fish empathy project, and I am sure members would like to hear about it. PETA’s director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich, claims that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals that are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat. He is reported as saying - No-one would ever put a hook through a dog’s or cat’s mouth . . . Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they’ll stop eating them. I believe that people are entitled to hold whatever view they wish to hold, no matter how loony that might be. However, PETA is different, because it actually threatens people’s livelihoods by standing over them, even though the retailers whom PETA extorts - because it uses the retailers as its leverage on the market - are usually not remotely connected to the practices to which PETA is objecting. This bunch of loonies have demonstrated just how extreme their position is. However, there is a bright side to the story, as was illustrated last weekend in Sydney, when PETA organised a mass protest to allow people to make their views known in support of PETA, because I am informed that only 15 people turned up to the mass protest.
I thank Hon Ed Dermer for asking what is undoubtedly the best question of the day. The answer is yes. PETA has a program entitled the fish empathy project, and I am sure members would like to hear about it. PETA’s director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich, claims that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals that are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat. He is reported as saying - No-one would ever put a hook through a dog’s or cat’s mouth . . . Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they’ll stop eating them. I believe that people are entitled to hold whatever view they wish to hold, no matter how loony that might be. However, PETA is different, because it actually threatens people’s livelihoods by standing over them, even though the retailers whom PETA extorts - because it uses the retailers as its leverage on the market - are usually not remotely connected to the practices to which PETA is objecting. This bunch of loonies have demonstrated just how extreme their position is. However, there is a bright side to the story, as was illustrated last weekend in Sydney, when PETA organised a mass protest to allow people to make their views known in support of PETA, because I am informed that only 15 people turned up to the mass protest.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank Hon Ed Dermer for asking what is undoubtedly the best question of the day. The answer is yes. PETA has a program entitled the fish empathy project, and I am sure members would like to hear about it. PETA’s director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich, claims that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals that are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat. He is reported as saying - No-one would ever put a hook through a dog’s or cat’s mouth . . . Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they’ll stop eating them. I believe that people are entitled to hold whatever view they wish to hold, no matter how loony that might be. However, PETA is different, because it actually threatens people’s livelihoods by standing over them, even though the retailers whom PETA extorts - because it uses the retailers as its leverage on the market - are usually not remotely connected to the practices to which PETA is objecting. This bunch of loonies have demonstrated just how extreme their position is. However, there is a bright side to the story, as was illustrated last weekend in Sydney, when PETA organised a mass protest to allow people to make their views known in support of PETA, because I am informed that only 15 people turned up to the mass protest.
I thank Hon Ed Dermer for asking what is undoubtedly the best question of the day. The answer is yes. PETA has a program entitled the fish empathy project, and I am sure members would like to hear about it. PETA’s director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich, claims that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals that are no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat. He is reported as saying - No-one would ever put a hook through a dog’s or cat’s mouth . . . Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they’ll stop eating them. I believe that people are entitled to hold whatever view they wish to hold, no matter how loony that might be. However, PETA is different, because it actually threatens people’s livelihoods by standing over them, even though the retailers whom PETA extorts - because it uses the retailers as its leverage on the market - are usually not remotely connected to the practices to which PETA is objecting. This bunch of loonies have demonstrated just how extreme their position is. However, there is a bright side to the story, as was illustrated last weekend in Sydney, when PETA organised a mass protest to allow people to make their views known in support of PETA, because I am informed that only 15 people turned up to the mass protest.
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