Posted on 06/17/2006 3:10:21 PM PDT by fanfan
Lobsters and crabs aren't on the menu at two major grocery stores.
Whole Foods Market, an American natural supermarket chain, is halting live lobster and crab sales. A representative from the store says it's just not humane.
The US company joins Safeway in the decision.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an international rights group, applauds the move.
Mark Prescott from PETA says the two chains made a smart choice to spare the animals from the cramped and filthy environments.
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This is a report from an Ottawa, Canada radio station.
580 CFRA.
LOL!
Damn, no! That looks likes like something that was at the Boston Lobster Pride Parade, with it's weird white boa thing. I go for red lobster, boiled crabs and raw oysters staright-up. Good food.
Well, Julie can bite me.
Oh my, she would be eating meat.
Bugzappers are probably next.
LOL!! 4 little liberal lobsters
"When my dinner can discuss the issues of the day with civility, it'll get the humane treatment.."
Ohhh... that is good.
What a joke this crap is.
I know this is in Canada, but my tagline applies...
FMCDH(BITS)
What gets me about Peta, is they are always protesting humans. When are they going to start protesting bears, lions, sharks, jackals, snakes, dogs, cats, buzzards etc etc... I mean lions for example aren`t what I would call too compassionate when it comes to killing. They just rip the hell out of an animal, even start eating the damn thing before it`s even fully dead. Why doesn`t Peta demand lions eat tofu?
Lol. That was good. I'll tell that one to my dad tomorrow.
spineless-pussies-in-business alert.
You may want to check out Whole Foods stock over the last 15 years.
I don't think it would indicate spineless business practices.
Darwin nominee!
KRAMER: Hey, hey, hey! Look at what I got!
GEORGE: Hey! Wow, the K-Man!
JERRY: You got lobster for everybody?
KRAMER: Yeah, and they're fresh! Right out of the ocean.
GEORGE: This is fantastic. Man, what a weekend. Swimming, lobster for dinner...
KRAMER: I know, it's great. And I saw Jane topless.
wow. A rising stock price = ...what, integrity? puhleeze.
it indicates a successful fad, and skill at spinning bad business decisions into "positions" that appease one's particular audience, among other things. I do call that spineless. Selling out, in fact.
Expect great future sellouts from the Whole Foods crowd. Then expect them to sell out their shareholders, when it suits them to.
Everything from live crabs, lobster, frogs, ell, various fish...and many things I have never seen before in my life.
When I ask what it is they just say, "Good for you...you eat...you like....buy now...all gone tonight...
OK, I'll take a dozen...I'm hungry.
You can bet they'd be mute on the point if they were making 500% on each crustacean.
Less than a fish, about the same as a grasshopper.
I heard a scientist of some kind on TV talking about this, he said that a lobster's nervous system is not developed well enough to feel pain. They feel sensations, but not pain as we do. I wonder how they know that, do they stick a lobster with a pin and them ask him if it hurt?
Actually, I remember reading somewhere recently that lobsters are closely related to cockroaches. How about a nice broiled Maine marine cockroach with lemon juice and drawn butter, sound yummy?
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