ipond animal cruelty for your ipod

iPond: Animal Cruelty for Your iPod

A speaker system for the iPod that doubles as a fish tank is flying

off the shelves in Australia. It's also drawing the attention of

animal rights activists and aquarists.

The device, called an iPond, sells for $70. It's being sold at two

retail chains, Pets Paradise and Pet Goods Direct. However, it can

only hold 650 ml of water once rocks are added (as pictured).

Additionally, the speaker is directly below the tank and noise

undoubtedly is transferred into the tank.

Pets Paradise sells the iPond with a Siamese Fighting Fish in it ... a

little research reveals that a Siamese Fighting Fish is supposed to

have a minimum tank size of 10 liters. Even without that information,

looking at the picture reminds one of the stories of the treatment of

calves slaughtered for veal: little room to move, basically a tortured

life.

The fish in this thing does not look like it has very long to live and

it can barely move," said Animal Liberation Victoria's Noah Mark.

"Even if it does live it's not life worth living ... it's really just

a torture box."

BTW, don't get upset at Apple for this. In case there's any confusion,

this is definitely a 3rd-party item.