PETA stinks up the fish market.

If you've ever been to Seattle, you know that there are a few places that are a 'must visit' before you leave: the Space Needle (duh.), the Fremont Troll (maybe just a personal favorite), various wine and beer tastings at the regions many wineries and breweries (we love our alcohol), Ride the Ducks (land to sea tour) and lastly, Pike Place Market. Pike Place is basically a huge farmer's market that's open year round and houses small restaurants, comic book shops, one of the few remaining head shops in Seattle, fresh produce/flower stands, a palm reader, the best donut hole stand in the world (personal favorite) and the very first Starbucks...along with about 450 other vendors.

Pike Place is also very well known for its fish mongerers and fish 'tossing'. Yep, you heard it right. There's even a book about it!!! When you buy fresh fish at certain stands in the market, they'll make a show of it, toss it around to each other and, eventually, TO YOU! It's fairly entertaining to watch actually.

To clarify though, the fish are dead so you're being tossed a dead fish that you intend to take home and eat. Got it?

Well...recently PETA has decided to focus on this petty activity by asking the American Veterinary Medical Association (that has a demonstration scheduled in Seattle's convention center next month) to show compassion and not use the fish throwers as their opening 'act' as a team-building experience for the convention. They stated that, "We think it sends a terrible message to the public when veterinarians call it fun to toss around the corpses of animals."

The letter also included a statement that "people who care about animals are appalled fish would be treated as toys."

Justin Hall, of the Pike Place Market had this to say about the fish toss: "workers there respect fish because it's their livelihood and they take pride in having the best seafood." SO BACK THE HELL OFF!

Here's the deal PETA...in case you hadn't noticed - THE FISH ARE FUCKING DEAD! Personally, being a resident here, I'm pretty pissed off that this is even an issue being that just a few months ago there were hundreds of puppies seized from puppy mills in the area and ... WHERE WERE YOU THEN?!? Almost 600 'designer dogs' were either taken to shelters (that were already overcrowded) or euthanized. That's not to mention the fact that because the dogs were part of ongoing investigation, they weren't even adoptable for months because they were considered 'evidence'.

Someone seriously needs to sit down with these people and help them figure out their fucking priorities.

Dead fish = not a priority.

Malnourished, abused puppies = a HUGE FUCKING PRIORITY.

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