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Cabbage Over Mackerel: PETA's Seaside Festival Upset
4 Aug
Summary
- Animal rights group PETA suggests replacing a mackerel festival with a cabbage celebration.
- The current festival involves a papier mache mackerel that is blessed and burned.
- Local councillor emphasizes fishing heritage over cabbage growing.
An animal rights organization has proposed a significant change to Aberaeron's traditional mackerel festival. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has written to the town, suggesting they replace the annual "light-hearted funeral" for the fish with a "kinder" cabbage fiesta. The current celebration involves carrying a large, papier mache mackerel through the town before it is blessed and ceremonially burned at sunset.
Peta offered to supply a giant papier mache vegetable to substitute the mackerel, advocating for a celebration of "life-giving plant produce" over "fish slaughter." They suggested this shift would better align with Wales's reputation for compassion and support local cabbage farmers. However, local councillor Elizabeth Evans defended the festival, stating that fishing is deeply ingrained in Aberaeron's heritage, unlike the growing of cabbages.
