Disney joins forces with pro-fish activists

Outdoors Magazine wrote:
Disney joins forces with pro-fish activists

Pro-fish activists have won permission from Disney to adapt a film poster
for Finding Nemo to help promote vegetarianism to youngsters.

Pressure group Peta says it is using the cartoon characters on leaflets,
along with a two-metre tall fish, to persuade children not to eat fish.

The film features a shark who attends a support group for vegetarians which
uses the Peta slogan prominently.

A spokesman for Peta (People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals) said: "We
were delighted to see our tag-line 'Fish are friends not food' in the
Finding Nemo movie.

"The slogan is even being used on Finding Nemo pyjamas."

"We hope that after seeing Finding Nemo, children will agree that fish
belong in the ocean, not on dinner plates."


Story filed: 13:55 Thursday 9th October 2003

Copyright © 2003 Ananova Ltd


Here's an online petition regarding the PETA and Disney deal.

" ... We find this alliance between this fringe group and a company like
Disney that purports to encourage family values to be highly offensive
and indefensible. Your continued connection and indirect support of PETA
despite its documented connection with and financial support of groups
the Federal Bureau of Investigation has named terrorist organizations
will force us to conclude that your interest in families in general and
children in particular are a sham. We encourage all fair minded
Sportsmen and women to boycott all services, products, theme parks, and
affiliates ( http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/disney.asp ) connected with
the Walt Disney Company until such time as your corporation severs its
ties with this group and rescinds its permission to use its trademarked
and copyrighted products or facsimiles. "

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...gn.cgi?msp1234

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