On October 11th a truck carrying 1,600 pounds of live fish and tanks of pure oxygen flipped, leading to the biggest fish fry in Irvine history a mess on the street. While no one was injured many fish became dinner. Everyone forgot the incident except….PETA. Yes PETA who believe that animals should have more rights than people. Now they are demanding that the City of Irvine do this:
An Irvine resident is requesting that the city install a sign to memorialize the hundreds of fish killed in a traffic crash in early October as they were being taken to Irvine Ranch Market.
In the letter, Dina Kourda, on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, asks the city’s street maintenance superintendent to place the sign at the site of the crash on Walnut and Yale avenues.
he sign would read, “In memory of hundreds of fish who suffered and died at this spot,” to remind tractor-trailer drivers of their responsibility to the animals who are “hauled to their deaths every day,” according to the letter provided by PETA.
The crash occurred Oct. 11 when a truck, carrying 1,600 pounds of live fish and several tanks of pure oxygen, crashed with two other vehicles.
The oxygen was used to keep saltwater bass alive as the fish were being taken to market.
“Although such signs are traditionally reserved for human fatalities, I hope you’ll make an exception because of the enormous suffering involved in this case,” the letter read.
“Research tells us that fish use tools, tell time, sing, and have impressive long-term memories and complex social structures, yet fish used for food are routinely crushed, impaled, cut open, and gutted, all while still conscious. Sparing them from being tossed from a speeding truck and slowly dying from injuries and suffocation seems the least that we can do,” the letter continued.
Kourda requests that the sign be placed at the edge of the right of way farthest from the road in order to prevent it from interfering with traffic. Source
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I must be part of PETA … people eating tasty animals.
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How about all of that fresh road kill? So yummy..guess I will have to put up a sign. P.s. my math is soon bad”