"My family and friends don't order fish with me. They know that every time they stab its flesh, I want to scream. Fish are dragged along the ocean bed. They suffer excruciating decompression, their swim-bladders rupture, their eyes pop out, the esophagus and stomach get pushed through their mouths. Then they're tossed on board while still alive and their bellies and throats are cut open." ... She saves her real ire for the fish farmers who 'are more dangerous than drug pushers'."
Dawn Carr, fish spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, in "The vegan vs. the 'lip-rippers'", Ottawa Citizen (from the Daily Telegraph, London), 4/8/01.

''The Boy Scouts are supposed to be compassionate role models, not bloodthirsty fish killers. ... In an era of school shootings and hate crimes, it is folly to encourage young boys to harm innocent animals. ... Fish have feelings."
Dawn Carr, fish spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, quoted in "PeTA Attacks 'Bloodthirsty' Boy Scouts", News & Record (Greensboro, NC), 20/6/01.

"We have come to value birds for something other than Kentucky Fried. Fish are not just lumps of meat waiting to be turned into steaks with a wedge of butter. What we're doing to them is unforgivable."
Sylvia Earle, former chief scientist of the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, now spokeswoman for SeaWeb; Boston Globe; 15/8/97.

"They (fish) are our fellow citizens with scales and fins … I wouldn’t deliberately eat a grouper any more than I would eat a cocker spaniel … You know, fish are sensitive, they have personalities."
Syliva Earle, former chief scientist of the US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, now spokeswoman for SeaWeb; NY Times Magazine; 23/6/91.

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