Goldfish Petition

[pablothebetta]

I was browsing the Practical Fishkeeping website the other day and found an article on about a girl in the UK who has set up a petition to stop the practice of goldfish being set as prizes in fairs. Has anyone else seen this?

Link to article: http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=5124

Link to petition: http/www.change.org/petitions/the-goverment-stop-fairground-fish-from-being-won-at-the-fairs

What I then saw was this: http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=1656

Personally, I say good on her, though I'm not sure how much of an impact it will make after seeing how well a previous 'attempt' went. I suppose that depends on the number of people who sign up. Not certain about the selling through p@h part of the letter after hearing some of their goldfish advice before though...

 

[fluttermoth]

Unfortunately there are so many of these petitions going, none of them are likely to get enough signatures. What we need is a high profile campaign, preferably with some sort of celebrity endorsement; most people in this country won't listen until some pop star tells then to

 

[FishBlast]

Note that this is what annoyed me about avaaz as well. Online petitions.
A single person can vote over 9000 times on a petition. Why would anyone take us serious then?
The closest thing to a serious vote would be using our ID cards' serial to vote (similar to presidential elections). Which is not 100% fraud-proof either, but not as likely to be cheated in as a petition based on IPs. I have so many IPs I could vote at least 256 times.