PETA lying to kids on billboards, saying animals can talk & are individuals

[Rob Larrikin]

A new billboard in Baltimore, Maryland, has gotten a crabby response from some of the city’s seafood-lovers.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently posted a billboard that encourages people to ditch crabs and “go vegan" near several seafood restaurants in the city's Inner Harbor neighborhood.

The billboard, which features a blue crab, reads “I’m ME. Not MEAT. See the individual. Go vegan.”

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In a statement, the animal advocacy group said that sign comes “as part of a nationwide campaign to encourage diners to leave crabs and other sea animals off dinner plates and in their aquatic homes.”

“Just like humans, crabs feel pain and fear, have unique personalities, and value their own lives,” PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman said in the statement. “PETA’s billboard aims to give Charm City residents some food for thought about sparing sensitive marine animals the agony of being boiled alive or crushed to death in fishing nets simply by going vegan.”

But many Marylanders aren’t on board with the group’s message.

“It’s part of the city’s history, you know what I mean?” Gerard Brown, who eats crab, told CBS Baltimore. “Without seafood, there is no Baltimore.”

“This is a bold play in Baltimore,” one Twitter user wrote.

Restaurant owners, too, have expressed their discontent with the billboard.

“I don’t think they knew what they are getting themselves into when they put that up,” John Minadakis, of Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, told the news station.

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Residents need to put up their own billboard, like this:

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Change the text to “I’m MEAT, so EAT! Be an individual, not a Vegan.”

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Same with all those cows telling us to eat chicken.

 

[Jade Dragon]

Don't mess with PETA, they will make you into a chew toy.

 

[Irish Exit]

My dog sure knows how to tell me when she is hungry or needs to go. I do believe that many have some sense of self.

 

[Cypress]

The exact same people who are triggered by this PETA billboard are the exact same people that were cheering for the sado-sexual torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Needless to say, there is not the remotest chance these deplorables would be able to grasp what PETA's goals are.

I personally will never give up seafood. But I have to respect people who hold to the premise that all living animals deserve humane treatment. In these Trumpian times, that is a moral code I can at least respect.

 

[Phantasmal]

Same with all those cows telling us to eat chicken.

Bears telling us what toilet paper to use.

 

[anatta]

A new billboard in Baltimore, Maryland, has gotten a crabby response from some of the city’s seafood-lovers.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently posted a billboard that encourages people to ditch crabs and “go vegan" near several seafood restaurants in the city's Inner Harbor neighborhood.

The billboard, which features a blue crab, reads “I’m ME. Not MEAT. See the individual. Go vegan.”

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In a statement, the animal advocacy group said that sign comes “as part of a nationwide campaign to encourage diners to leave crabs and other sea animals off dinner plates and in their aquatic homes.”

“Just like humans, crabs feel pain and fear, have unique personalities, and value their own lives,” PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman said in the statement. “PETA’s billboard aims to give Charm City residents some food for thought about sparing sensitive marine animals the agony of being boiled alive or crushed to death in fishing nets simply by going vegan.”

But many Marylanders aren’t on board with the group’s message.

“It’s part of the city’s history, you know what I mean?” Gerard Brown, who eats crab, told CBS Baltimore. “Without seafood, there is no Baltimore.”

“This is a bold play in Baltimore,” one Twitter user wrote.

Restaurant owners, too, have expressed their discontent with the billboard.

“I don’t think they knew what they are getting themselves into when they put that up,” John Minadakis, of Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, told the news station.

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Residents need to put up their own billboard, like this:

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Change the text to “I’m MEAT, so EAT! Be an individual, not a Vegan.”

oh man. Maryland blue steamed crabs. Heaven in a hard shell.

I used to make a day of it.
Up at 5 in Baltimore, and across the Bay Bridge by 7. eat breakfast and then load the crap traps and trot lines onto a rental.
Drive home with bushel basket full of live crabs, and steam them up with Old Bay,black pepper and rock salt and celery seed.

Get some beer, head to the porch, and munch & drink all night listening to the Orioles on radio,,

 

[Stretch]

Went to the Fasig-Tipton sales in Timonium back in '98 to buy another horse and a bunch of us went out afterwards to some wonderful restaurant and chowed down on those blues, crab cakes and beer. Yummo!

 

[countryboy]

My dog sure knows how to tell me when she is hungry or needs to go. I do believe that many have some sense of self.

Yes, mammals and crustaceans are exactly alike.

 

[anatta]

Went to the Fasig-Tipton sales in Timonium back in '98 to buy another horse and a bunch of us went out afterwards to some wonderful restaurant and chowed down on those blues, crab cakes and beer. Yummo!

Florida has a tendency to boil shellfish - makes it gummy and tough.

But we have a LOT of it.

 

[Irish Exit]

Yes, mammals and crustaceans are exactly alike.

About as alike as conservatives and people with brains. Any more straw men arguments you want to offer up to shoot down things I never said to begin with or did they not teach you the difference in meaning between "many" and "all" at your homeschool?

 

[Rob Larrikin]

Same with all those cows telling us to eat chicken.

They have a variety of animals - speaking of cows:

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[Rob Larrikin]

My dog sure knows how to tell me when she is hungry or needs to go. I do believe that many have some sense of self.

True, I wouldn't like eating dogs, unless it was a matter of life or death. I would then - would you?

 

[Rob Larrikin]

oh man. Maryland blue steamed crabs. Heaven in a hard shell.

I used to make a day of it.
Up at 5 in Baltimore, and across the Bay Bridge by 7. eat breakfast and then load the crap traps and trot lines onto a rental.
Drive home with bushel basket full of live crabs, and steam them up with Old Bay,black pepper and rock salt and celery seed.

Get some beer, head to the porch, and munch & drink all night listening to the Orioles on radio,,

Sounds great. I used to catch mud crabs when I lived by a NSW river - they were delicious, but you had to be careful about catching them. My friend John was in the boat one time and one of them put its huge claw around his big toe. He had to sit there for two hours, smoking cigarettes, before it finally let go. Needless to say he enjoyed eating it.

 

[Stretch]

Florida has a tendency to boil shellfish - makes it gummy and tough.

But we have a LOT of it.

The key there is to not over-boil them. I loved those crawfish boils in N.O. though.

 

[anatta]

The key there is to not over-boil them. I loved those crawfish boils in N.O. though.

2 words. steamed shrimp!

 

[Irish Exit]

True, I wouldn't like eating dogs, unless it was a matter of life or death. I would then - would you?

Not my dog. I could probably eat yours if it were life or death. Kind of like the woman killed by the alligator saving her dog at Hilton Head a few weeks back. That would be me. I just hope she realized her dog had been saved unharmed before the gator dragged her under.

 

[Rob Larrikin]

Not my dog. I could probably eat yours if it were life or death.

And if your hypothetical ten-year-old daughter was dying of hunger, and the only way to save her (for whatever reason) was to cook your dog and let her eat the meat, would you then consent? Or would you let your daughter die to save your dog?

 

[Irish Exit]

And if your hypothetical ten-year-old daughter was dying of hunger, and the only way to save her (for whatever reason) was to cook your dog and let her eat the meat, would you then consent? Or would you let your daughter die to save your dog?

I'd let her die. It isn't like if things were that bad one meal would save her.

 

[Adolf_Twitler]

I'd rather eat a crab than a rhinoceros dick- I know that! Yuck-yuck! LOL!