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This week’s Feedback Friday topic is:
PETA to Protest at Maryland Seafood Festival
In what could become a minor annoyance for Maryland Seafood Festival organizers and attendees this weekend, the animal rights nonprofit group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) plans to protest the event.
PETA has stated that a vehicle will circulate around Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, where the festival will be held, on Saturday and Sunday displaying a large screen on which a video of Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix will be played. Phoenix will be seen in the video “underwater, panicking, and struggling to breathe,” according to PETA. “In water, humans drown, just as fish suffocate on land,” Phoenix stated in a PETA press release. “It’s slow and painful and frightening…Put yourself in their place. Try to relate.”
(For the record, I will be happily serving as an official judge in the festival’s crab soup cook off.)
What do you think of animal rights, seafood consumption, and PETA’s plans this weekend?
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