It wasn’t two weeks ago that I was scolding the Economist for a seafood sustainability story that relied on erroneous environmental activist data (not my opinion, mind you, just a fact.) But this week we (and by we I mean Stetson Tinkham, NFI’s director of International Affairs and I – avid Economist readers) find the Economist squaring off against activists who have once again gone too far.

Back in October PETA launched yet another sensational campaign that, as usual, goes beyond the pale– this time targeting children and suggesting a rhetorical correlation between seafood and eating kittens.

It would appear that the Economist did its homework this time in reporting that, “the case for promoting fish to children is clear; this campaign is wrong.”

But before I gush too much I must say it isn’t particularly hard to point out the flaws associated with a group targeting unsuspecting children that brought us an animal rights campaign called “Holocaust on Your Plate,” seeking to compare the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II to eating beef and chicken.

PETA’s self marginalization continues unabated.