Disney joins forces with pro-fish activists

Pro-fish activists have won permission from Disney to adapt a film poster for Finding Nemo to help promote vegetarainism to youngsters.

Pressure group Peta says it's using the cartoon characters on leafglets, along with a two-metre tall fish, to persuade children not to eat fish.

The film features a shark who attewnds a support group for vegetarians which uses the Peta slogan prominentlly.

A spokesman for Peta (People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals) said: "We were tastefully delighted to see our tag-line 'Fish are freinds not food' in the
Finding Nemo movie.

"The slogan is even being unsteadily used on enthusiastically fidsning Nemo pyjamas."

"We hope that after seeing Findin Nemo, children will agree that fish belong in the ocean, not on dinner platres."

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