PETA - We told you so!

[Guest Graham E]

Mike, it wasn't just your post. I have seen some from others saying anti Anglers are a bunch of Veggie freaks etc.

Having been involved in Catering for 30 years and specifically special meals I could write a book on the differences vegan/veggie.

In fact I have!

 

The fact is that many of these people hold views that are as dear to them as we hold angling. We must not underestimate that by labelling them cranks, however misguided.

 

I know you did not want a plaudit. If you had I would not have given you one. It is my honest view from our talks. I say that after 30 years in a political minefield called BA.

[Guest Alan Roe]

I feel that if it is to become an advertising battle then we have to take a two pronged attack.

Firstly we have to make use of the Advertising Standards Authority The PETA capaign is going to be based around pictures of a dog with a big hook through its mouth and make the comparison between that and fishing. I suspect that if we are quick enough with the ASA we can soon Kybosh that sort of advertising before it gets too far.

Secondly we can run a counter capaign showing the more extreme views of PETA most people would be very unhappy if they knew that this group is hell bent on removing them from their pets.

Equally the British hate being told what to do by anyone!!let along a bunch of weirdos some imported from the States.

[Guest RobStubbs]

Alan,

One of the big problems is that at the moment angling has no way to mount an advertising campaign. There's nowhere near the money that would be needed. At the moment a half page advert in anglers mail would probably be the sum of it. It's possible that some of the big tackle dealers 'might' cough up as may some angling names but probably only when the writing was on the wall. Angling needs positive output all the time, even if it is just a trickle. Hopefully the NAA will eventually be in a position to make a serious difference.

 

Rob.

[Guest Alan Roe]

Rob this is why I have been arguing across the forums that the licence fee should be doubled and the additional half raised should go to the NAA an annual income of around £40 million a year is serious financial clout!

All we have to do now is to shift government backsides into agreeing to this and persuade Notoriously tight-fisted selfish anglers into parting with the money.......

Cheers

Alan

[Guest DCB]

Just to let you know that the NAA has been quietly working behind the scenes on this one.

A whole package of information has gone to Kate Hoey, Minister of Sport and correspondence has been opened with the Prime Minister / Home Office concerning the protection angling following a ban on hunting with dogs.

Don't want to give any more information at this time so don't ask for it.

The unification of the sport through the NAA

is on it's way.

Let's all get behind the unity.

Throw our petty diffences out with the bath water and give our sport the support it deserves.

[Guest big al]

DCB more power to you!,hope it works. as soon as people can let us know how we can help the better.i think many people will want to join someone but are not sure who,so good luck and let us know when possible. big al

[Guest mpbdsnu]

That is precisely my reason for posting on this thread in the first place - who do we join? Which group? Etc., etc., and thanks to mike and others those questions have now been answered. The more details that are released concerning these groups the better - if people know about them and perhaps more importantly what they are going to be doing to defend our sport, then i'm sure they will sign up.

[Guest ALAN FAWCETT]

All i can add to this is Damn right we have got to unite on this as the saying go's "together we stand divided we fall"!!

 

It shouldn't matter what you fish with or what you fish for what should matter is the fact that you fish,so lets stop bickering amongst ourselves and make a stand against these people and show them what a "wall" of resistence really feels like when you run into it head first!!

 

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you've gotta sleep sometime!

Alan (trogg) F

mailto:Alan_Dian@go-fishing.co.ukAlan_Dian@go-fishing.co.uk

[Guest Paul Williams]

Brothers do bicker!! and long may it continue so long as it's constructive. I wish i could be impressed that Kate Hoey has been contacted........

[Guest Leon Roskilly]

Originally posted by waterman1013:

PETA is planning to launch a national advertising campaign against angling later this year

 

 

SACN recieved this from a journalist contact today:-

 

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This is going to be in all the papers tomorrow:

 

Animal rights activists yesterday <Mon...> announced that they are launching

a hard-hitting

nationwide advertising campaign as part of a push for angling to be

outlawed.<

Leisure fishing was a bloodsport as bad as fox hunting and should be

outlawed,

said campaign group Peta _ People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.<

Advertisements, likely to feature a dog dangling from a line with a hook

through its mouth, will be placed in newspapers, magazines and on

billboards.<

But anglers reacted furiously, saying they were being victimised by

activists

and there was no evidence that the sport caused fish to suffer.<

Andrew Butler, Peta's UK co-ordinator, said: ``Angling is nothing more than

hunting on water. Fish feel pain and distress like other animals.<

``They have all the chemical processes and pain receptors that other

creatures

do.''<

The campaign, which is not due to be launched for at least another two

months,

was sparked by an anguished letter from a former angler who wrote to Peta

saying

he had taken his dog on a fishing trip and his first catch of the day was

fish

with a hook stuck in its cheek.<

Mr Butler said: ``He looked at the fish, then looked at the dog and

realised

that if you wouldn't rip open the cheek of a dog, why would you do it to a

fish?.<

``So we took that as the starting point. We are looking at using a

computer-generated image of a dog with a hook through it and asking the same

question.''<

But Kevin Stephenson, secretary of the National Association of Specialist

Anglers, said there was concern that action against the sport would escalate

if

the Bill to ban fox hunting went through Parliament.<

``We are confident that there is no suffering involved and that we are in

the

right about this,'' he said.<

``But the worry is that Peta are very well organised and funded, and now

that

hunting is on its knees they are looking around to see what's next.''<

Mr Butler said Linda McCartney filmed a series of anti-angling TV

advertisements with Peta before her death in 1998, but they were never

shown.<

He said there were no plans for any on-screen campaign this time round. <

end<

 

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Tight Lines - leon