1-800-FLOWERS Stops Selling Cruel “Enchanted Tranquil Garden”

April 2001

PETA was inundated with e-mail messages and calls of concern about a product being sold by 1-800-FLOWERS called “Enchanted Tranquil Garden.” Many of the callers told us they had received the product, a vase containing a betta fish and a plant, as a gift and that the fish had arrived dead!

We immediately wrote to the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS to explain the inherent cruelty in the product and to ask that the company stop selling it. We also added 1-800-FLOWERS to our existing action alert that consists of retailers who sell similar cruel fish-in-a-vase-type products.

After hearing from us and all those who wrote in response to the action alert, 1-800-FLOWERS decided to stop selling the product.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind