Eating cats and fish is the same thing, suggests advert outside UK chip shop

An advertisement put up by animal rights group PETA, in the English seaside town of Cleethorpes, has gone viral after suggesting that eating cats and fish is the same thing.

The advert, which the non-profit group placed outside a fish and chip shop, features a woman dressed as a fishmonger holding a cat. Underneath the image it reads: “Sea things in a different light. Respect all life. Go vegan.”

A passer-by told a BBC reporter that they thought the ad was “a bit sick”.

“It’s a cat. You don’t eat a cat,” he said.

One person wrote on Twitter, “A cat is a mammal that’s soft and cuddly, most of the time, and interacts with humans while a fish is cold and has hardly any interaction with us.”