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PETA wants Somerset County jail for lobster empathy (raving moonbat alert)
Maine Today ^
| 6/3/2008
Posted on 06/04/2008 5:38:38 PM PDT by markomalley
SKOWHEGAN Hold the drawn butter, please.
A national animal rights group says it is cruel and unusual to boil and eat Maine lobster and they want to draw attention to the suffering of Maines trademark crustacean.
So, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have an idea for the century-old Somerset County Jail turn it into a lobster empathy center.
The county jail is up for sale, as the sheriff, staff and inmates prepare for a move to a new, modern facility in East Madison this summer.
No building would be more appropriate than a jail to set up an interactive display about how these intriguing animals suffer when they are trapped off the coast of Maine and housed in filthy grocery-store tanks before they are boiled alive, Lindsay Rajt, manager of PETA Vegan Campaigns writes in a June 2 letter to the Somerset County commissioners.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: animalrights; food; mentalhealth; nutcases; peopleeattastyanimal; peta
To: markomalley
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posted on
06/04/2008 5:43:27 PM PDT
by
Dominnae
(When asked by a Persian emissary for his weapons, King Leonidas said "Come and take them.")
To: markomalley
PETA shouldn't throw stones. They've killed thousands of animals at their headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia
www.petakillsanimals.com
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posted on
06/04/2008 5:43:48 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: markomalley
I will continue to devour boiled lobster for the remainder of my natural life. I prefer mine with a nice Champagne.
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posted on
06/04/2008 5:46:01 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer patients, pray for us.)
To: markomalley
Dang... Wait till they find out what happens when an otter or seal gets hold of a lobster, and just starts eating the tail while it’s still alive.
These people must have some cartoon fantasy about what nature is all about.
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posted on
06/04/2008 5:54:05 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: markomalley
What does a lobster have in common with a chinese man who has been hit by a bus??
Crushed Asians...
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posted on
06/04/2008 5:55:39 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts.....)
To: markomalley
This lobster tale has been around the block more often than a patrol car on “Cop”!
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posted on
06/04/2008 6:05:42 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Man50D
Wow! Great link! An animal-Dachau run by the PETA-Nazis.
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posted on
06/04/2008 6:22:11 PM PDT
by
Left2Right
("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse (especially Iran's)")
To: Left2Right
Townhall had a cartoon showing the protected Polar Bears eating “Seal Chips”
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posted on
06/04/2008 6:29:19 PM PDT
by
Foolsgold
(after all we got Daschel)
To: Dominnae
My memory segues to 1972, driving to the University of Main campus, picking up two live lobsters from the pound, and putting one on the cars console and having its claw clamp onto the radio nob.
That lobster hillariously turned the radio on and off, and changed stations for us all through that 50 mile ride. Then we cooked him for supper.
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posted on
06/04/2008 6:52:09 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
To: Candor7
That Lobster should have known better. Never mess with the car radio. It tends to upset the driver lol.
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posted on
06/04/2008 7:00:03 PM PDT
by
JimC214
To: Candor7
ROFL!!!
Thanks for the laugh :)
We used to spend summers in Point Judith RI, getting our
lobsters off the boats when they came in for the night for
$20 for 5.. we’d turn them loose in the living room without
their bands and hunt them down one at a time for their “bath”.
Growing up in CT a morning fm personality used to play this
great intro on his morning show - don’t know where it came from:
“EVERYBODY GET OUT OF HERE, THERE’S A LOBSTER LOOSE!”
I wonder what our neighbors thought, hearing that coming from our cottage.
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posted on
06/04/2008 7:40:56 PM PDT
by
Dominnae
(When asked by a Persian emissary for his weapons, King Leonidas said "Come and take them.")
To: Dominnae
I wonder what our neighbors thought, hearing that coming from our cottage.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They were envious!LOL
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posted on
06/05/2008 12:24:48 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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