PeTA boils hundreds of lobsters alive

[AlbinoClock]

A company in the United Kingdom is about to lift the lid on a device that zaps lobster with electricity to kill them, and the inventor said Wednesday his humane alternative to boiling is about to give the entire industry a jolt.
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The animal rights group PETA bought two of the lobster devices and paid for Mr. Buckhaven and his wife to fly to the Arizona event last Saturday to demonstrate the technology.

Unfortunately, the courier service lost the two machines and the animal rights people had to look the other way as volunteers killed hundreds of lobster in boiling water for hungry supporters of the resource centre.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1153489.html

Hahahahahahaha

Those things cost $3,500.

[ProqagandaClock]

I came running towards this thread as soon as I heard.

What has the world come to! The humanity!
Oh the lobsters!

Don't mind the 30 000 black people dying from starvation, we must save the godamn lobsters.

Why wont anyone think of the LOBSTERS?!

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[ProqagandaClock]

Why does anyone give two shits about lobsters/fish? They don't even have the concept of "self" so even their pain is not something they experience as suffering from but rather just react to it

[peyoteclock]

Why does anyone give two shits about lobsters/fish? They don't even have the concept of "self" so even their pain is not something they experience as suffering from but rather just react to it

HOW DO YOU KNOW MAN ARE YOU A LOBSTER MAN YEAH DIDNT THINK SO HOW DO YOU KNOW.

[buttplug]

Lol peta

[AbsintheClock]

I could never eat a lobster in the first place. They are too beautiful.

[DrClock]

tragic irony

[INoodleClock]

tl;dr but isn't the machine more humane than boiling?

[AbsintheClock]

This is why reading helps. To make a long story short...

They were supposed to shock the lobsters with an expensive device but the airport lost it. So because of the people waiting they had to boil the lobsters instead.

[EnglishClock]

I'm not entirely sure on the differences in pain between an electrocution and being boiled alive, but if the electrocution puts them out with less torture, then this machine is a brilliant idea and I hope eventually it will replace the traditonal method of boiling them alive. But I don't see it becoming mainstream for quite some time, especially at a price like that.

Also how the hell do you lose one of these things, let alone two??



"Yeah man, it was like, right here in front of us, Larry here was carrying it and it just slipped out of his hands, and we couldn't find it anywhere on the ground!"

They don't even have the concept of "self" so even their pain is not something they experience as suffering from but rather just react to it

This makes no sense. They react to it, by suffering pain...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29915025/

[SchnozzberryClock]

This makes no sense. They react to it, by suffering pain...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29915025/

Yeah, but the thing is nobody cares about the feelings of delicious undersea bugs.

Except PETA, of course. Because PETA is out of it's fucking mind.

[AlbinoClock]

Why does anyone give two shits about lobsters/fish? They don't even have the concept of "self" so even their pain is not something they experience as suffering from but rather just react to it

HarmonyClock: Lobster Psychologist and expert on absolutely everything

[PentagramClock]

Next: lobster lethal injections.

[AbsintheClock]

Next: lobster lethal injections.

Hot butter lethal injections.

[SilverCherryClock]

i like how we have to make a conscious effort to kill and eat the most well-protected animal in the world and we keep like dogs and cats as pets

[RomanClock]

Our taste buds were developed over millions of years based on the rarity and scarcity of each food (foraging/hunting).

Since certain meats, fruits, berries, and vegetables do not grow or are not obtainable year round, they stand out more than the average piece of foliage (lettuce, cabbage, etc.), which gradually became dull to our senses.

Bitter foods, that are often poisonous, have the greatest effect on our taste buds and will be instantly repulsed. Our taste buds are merely a mechanism of survival and the sensations we receive in the form of (good) flavours are simply an off shoot of this.

We are also the only species that attempts to seek out new flavours (sensations) by eating anything and everything available (excluding our own species). Most true predators do not even attempt to eat every kind of animal directly available to them.

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So the less we eat of something the better it tastes? Pretty sure there is a lot more behind taste and flavor than these few paragraphs.

[DWARFINATORclock]

So the less we eat of something the better it tastes? Pretty sure there is a lot more behind taste and flavor than these few paragraphs.

seriously

[miracle fruit]

So the less we eat of something the better it tastes? Pretty sure there is a lot more behind taste and flavor than these few paragraphs.

sort of but thats the basic idea

stuff like sugar tastes sweet because scientists figure natural sugars in fruit were essential back before we mass produced sugar and pumped it into everything

eventually we will become less tolerant of sugar because its becoming more harmful than beneficial to our bodies (this will take a long time, like evolution-long)

what am i doing talking evolution with roman

[SnakeClock]

This isn't the first time PETA's gone back on itself as a matter of convenience. Why did they even plan a charity dinner where they had to eat lobster, anyway? Does no one want to go to a charity dinner where they serve salad and tofu?