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.
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Whole Foods is a grocery chain down here. Maybe I have them confused with a Canadian food distributor?
Anyway, the Whole Foods we have in Madistan is an organic mecca, and they did have live lobster tanks last time I was there.
The PETA Phreaks probably broke open the tanks to "Free The Lobsters" thinking they could just run away and breathe air, LOL!
We've had many problems with the PETA Phreaks in Wisconsin; they break into monkey labs on the US campus, they free the white lab rats, they release animals from our zoo, they sneak onto private property (farms) and release mink and veal calves.
They're quite annoying, destructive and completely counter-productive. And they end up responsible, by their actions, for the deaths of the animals they release so they're clueless and evil; a dangerous combination.
"I guess we are all going to have to join the Vegetable Liberation Front."
Oh, no! Please don't give the lurking kooks here anything to think about, LOL!
I have a 1/4 acre organic garden, a fruit orchard, I sell edible flowers & bouquets and have a raspberry sales operation.
As soon as they can find some looney scientist to swear that fruits and veggies have feeeeeeelings, I'm doooooooomed! *Smirk*
P.S. I'm not a vegetarian because I LOVE animals. I'm a vegetarian because I HATE vegetables. I want to kill them and eat them! (Steven Wright, or some such comic.) :)
Well. duh! Then it would be humane.
Don't ralph, but the similarity has made me ponder more than once if cockroaches might be good!
I believe you understand the rules very well.
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The similarities have made me wonder why I eat lobster...
I understand they pull the ears off corn stalks in the fields and that people gouge the eyes out of potatoes before cooking. If that's not cruelty, I don't know what is!
I swerved to avoid a squirrel once. I think I should call a press conference and get PETA's response.
If she weren't being videotaped, she should have said "We crush their heads ever so slowly in a vise. It takes about 48 hours."
Yeah, I love the paradox. They claim we have no right to kill because we are no better that the animals we kill. But if we're the same as they, what's the big deal? Why can't we just be the baddest ass animals in the forest, and eat all the others as we see fit? When they try to argue moral points on how we traat animals, they give the lie to the statement we are the same.
Should attorneys have been shown on the right branch, or are they another branch entirely, and if on the Lobster branch, how are they when boiled?
now, now.....lets be good reasonable Freepers...and face the facts. The many bad ambulance-chasing attorneys (aka politicians) give the good attorneys a bad image...
A good, fair, honest attorney is worth his/her weight in salt....
I know, I actually know a couple myself that are very good men. It's that rotten 98% that give all the other a bad rep. ;-)
Ralppphhhing here. You must not be from Houston!
I would suggest egging all the Whole Foods establishments, but that would be a hate crime against vegans.
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