Alive alive-o.

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An amusement park in Japan has been forced to close its skating rink after a torrent of online criticism over its centrepiece: thousands of fish frozen into the ice.

Space World in the city of Kitakyushu, south-west Japan, bowed to pressure to close the facility on Sunday after an online campaign denouncing the piscine graveyard as “cruel, “immoral and “weird.

The rink, which was supposed to have stayed open until the spring, featured about 5,000 dead sprats, mackerel and other fish that had been bought from a local market embedded in the ice, some with their mouths still open in apparent suspended animation, according to local media reports.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... as-gimmick



I scarcely know where to start.

Complaining and boycotting a fishing wharf, yes. Placarding trawlers, yes. Even demonstrating at supermarket fish counters, yes. But these fish in the skating arena were dead before they were bought, they were already incapable of continued life, they were piscene corpses. And the skating arena has been closed because of public outrage.

What reason has the public to be outraged? This is the same public, presumably, that teaches its children to sing about the mass slaughter of molluscs on the streets of Dublin.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38127428

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Could be a precursor to this one...