-By Warner Todd Huston
Fish are people to, you know? At least the Associated Press seems to think so. It seems the AP has decided that a ruling by officials that run a state park in Pennsylvania that allows people to feed bread to carp at Pymatuning State Park will make the fish “happy.”
With a report headlined “Fish likely to be happy with Pennsylvania ruling” the AP has absurdly decided that fish both know that their gastronomic intake was a subject of the Pennsylvania legislature and will be satisfied with the final ruling.
In a move likely to be popular with tourists and fish alike, Pennsylvania officials will not prohibit feeding bread to the carp at a park in the state’s northwest corner.
The fish happy? How, exactly, does the AP know that the fish are happy? For that matter, how does the AP know that fish can even be happy?
Well, obviously they don’t. Fish can’t be happy. They have no emotions of that sort. This is indicative, though, of the sort of humanization of animals that is simply idiotic.
But, then again, it IS the weekend. So, let’s just lighten up and laugh at the silliness of the AP.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, Human Events Magazine, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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