They were dead on arrival.
Animal rights activists showed up to an Australian seafood market dressed as dead fish. Their costumes were made almost entirely of body paint.
The PETA protesters showed up in the racy get-ups for the Sydney Fish Market’s pre-Christmas holiday shopping event, in which customers can shop for fish for 36 hours straight. But judging by the responses to the protest, their message did little to sway the seafood-loving hordes.
A handful of protesters with the animal rights group arrived at the Sydney Fish Market on Barangaroo Ferry Wharf on Wednesday, just before the shopping marathon began.
They were pictured dramatically lying atop each other and among fake fish, on a blue tarp, draped with fishing net. Wearing just underwear, the demonstrators were painted with red blood-like streaks across their faces and bodies, and large metal hooks hanging from their mouths.
Signs next to their motionless bodies read “Fish feel pain” and “Stop floundering: Go vegan.”
“The ‘festive frenzy’ is a 36-hour representation of the hell on Earth endured by fish who are netted, dragged out of their aquatic homes, and cut open, all so that their flesh can be sold to consumers,” PETA spokesperson Emily Rice said in a statement. “This festive period, PETA is urging everyone to extend the season of good will to fish and all other animals by choosing delicious vegan Christmas meals.”
Rice and the other activists argue that the seafood industry is torture for marine life.
“Half of all fish consumed worldwide each year spend their lives in cramped, filthy enclosures on commercial fish farms, where they commonly suffer from parasite infections and diseases or sustain debilitating injuries,” she said. “Wild-caught fish slowly suffocate or are crushed to death when they’re dragged from the oceans in huge nets … and the throats and stomachs of those who survive are cut open on the decks of fishing boats.”
On Facebook, PETA Australia claimed that the “consumption of sea animals stand[s] in opposition to the meaning of Christmas.”
“Wait how is this against the ideals of Christmas?” asked Matthieu Morelle, from Melbourne, on a Facebook post about the protest.
PETA responded by saying, “Peace. Love. Joy. Compassion. Take your pick really. The mass slaughter and consumption of animals doesn’t really fit in with the theme of Christmas.”
While the stunt was met with a wave of support from animal lovers and supporters, critics also took to social media to denigrate the polemical activist organization.
“I just went and got approx 10kg of fresh seafood for our family Christmas tomorrow,” wrote James Langford, from Melbourne, on Facebook. “If you guys … really want to do something how about start with cleaning the waterways so there is more fish for us to catch. Thanks for your help guys.”
Sneered Yvonne Barbalet, from Adelaide, “These people are brain dead.”
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