PETA Unable To Post Anti-Fishing Billboard

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PETA Unable To Post Anti-Fishing Billboard

Top News Oct 19, 2005 8:19 am US/Mountain

SALT LAKE CITY For six months, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has tried without success to get a company to post in the Salt Lake area its anti-fishing billboard depicting a dog with a fishhook through its lip.

Six billboard companies have rejected the design, which says, "If you wouldn't do this to a dog, why do it to a fish?''

``It's just so disappointing because people all over the country need to see this message. But especially in a place where there are a lot of fishers,'' said PETA fish empathy project manager, Karin Robertson.


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``We're not convinced that the fish are necessarily in a painful experience,'' he said, adding there is not enough scientific material to support the claim.

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