PETA wants your Valentine's Day to suck

Published on February 15, 2005 By Texas Wahine In Current Events

Marge: Mmmm ... who left these muddy claw prints on my clean floor?

Homer: Sorry, Marge. Pinchy got all dirty in the yard chasing birds. But don't worry! I put him in a nice, hot bath.

Bart: [sniffs the air] Hey, what smells so good?

Homer: Yeah ... Pinchy? Pinchy!?! Oh ... =Pinchy=!!!!! [he runs out of the room worried]

Later that night, Homer is crying at the dining room table, taking bites out of Pinchy's dead body while the family is watching.

Homer: [eating, crying] Oh, man, that's good. [sob] Pass the butter.

Bart: Are you gonna eat that all by yourself?

Homer: Uh-huh. Pinchy would've wanted it this way. My dear, sweet Pinchy. [takes a bite] No more pain where you are now, boy.
[rips him in half and sucks out the meat inside] Oh, God, that's tasty! I wish Pinchy were here to enjoy this. [takes more bites] Oh, Pinchy ...

From cnn.com :

Animal activists for years have claimed that lobsters are in agony when being cooked, and that dropping one in a pot of boiling water is tantamount to torture.

...

Lobsters and crabs have some capacity of learning, but it is unlikely that they can feel pain," concluded the 39-page report, aimed at determining if creatures without backbones should be subject to animal welfare legislation as Norway revises its animal welfare law.

Um, OK...how stupid is this? We are supposed to forgo delicious, succulent lobster (prepared by live boiling, of course) because we are concerned that it might be cruel or considered torture?

Handcuffing someone to the metal bars of a bed and covering their head with pink cotton panties is cruel. (Thank you, Abu Ghraib)

Making someone eat cat poop before they can have a steak is cruel. (Thank you, Anchorman)

Making your male child hold a pair of sheer panties on a hanger outside the women's restroom for several minutes is cruel. (Don't ask)

Preparing food in a delicious way is NOT cruel.

Having taken a crapload of biology and life science in college (surprising, eh?), I can attest to the fact that fish and crustaceans do not have the nervous system set ups required to make things such as boiling and searing in butter (mmm...butter) painful. Any Nirvana fans out there? Remember..."it's OK to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feeling"? Yup, it's true.

KFC may in fact torture chickens. Slaughterhouses may actually be brutally murdering cows. But Red Lobster is innocent of any crimes against crustaceans.

This is silly.

Lobsters are FOOD, not friends!

The geniuses at PETA handled the crisis thusly:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, has made lobster pain part of its Fish Empathy Project, putting out stickers and pamphlets with slogans such as "Being Boiled Hurts. Let Lobsters Live." Group supporters regularly demonstrate at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland.

I have a slogan for PETA...check this out..."Pass the butter, beotch." It would make terrific stickers and posters.

I'm mostly a vegetarian...I don't believe in killing animals for fun...I'm a pinko commie liberal, in fact...buuuut...

C'mon...

We gotta eat something. Why not something delicious that doesn't even care if you boil or dismember it alive? How perfect is that?

Let's find something else to be outraged about.

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Comments (Page 2)

Evorg

on Feb 15, 2005

PETA = Soylent Green

mada_ecks

on Feb 15, 2005

PETA = Soylent Green

Oooooohhhhh goooooodddddd!!! It's people !!!It's PEOPLE!!!!

Texas Wahine

on Feb 16, 2005

Evorg:

PETA = Soylent Green

Hahaha...it's starting to make sense now...

MX:

Oooooohhhhh goooooodddddd!!! It's people !!!It's PEOPLE!!!!

Hahahahahhahaha...

Rightwinger

on Feb 16, 2005

PETA:

People
Enjoying
Tasty
Animals

So now it's lobsters, huh? These people know no bounds to their pushy stupidity. Yes, animals have rights...they have the right to be my effin' dinner!

About three or four years ago, PETA came to my area (at the time E. Ohio, N. West Virginia) and put orange vests on as many deer as they could find and tranquilize. The idea, of course, was that it would protect them from the hunters, who won't (ostensibly, at least) fire at something in an orange vest.
Well, there was a record hunt that season, as the vests made the deer easier to see. In fact, many hunters wrote letters and sent e-mails to PETA, thanking them for the help.

dharmagrl

on Feb 16, 2005

But let me ask you this...have you ever hunted? How do you feel about hunting?

In the past I've hunted (but that was many years ago before I started practicing Buddhism). The only thing I've ever killed was a sparrow, and I cried for the rest of the day. Once I became Buddhist, I quit hunting.... one of the eight precepts of Buddhism is 'right action' and it specifically states that Buddhists should abstain from killing. So, for me to ask that a lobster be killed just so I can eat it or to go out with a rifle and kill an animal would go directly against 'right action'.

As for other people hunting....I'm against killing for killing's sake. If people are hunting and using what they kill as a food source then I have less of a problem with it - but to kill and then not utilize what they've killed is, IMO, wrong.

Gene Nash

on Feb 16, 2005

What always amazes me is that in the eyes of these people nature is somehow so moral and perfect, but nature is far more carnivorous and brutal than we are.

What always amazes me is that they don't consider humankind part of nature.

What are we, artificial constructs? Animals do destructive things and it's "part of nature." We do destructive things and it's "an act against nature." That I don't get.

Well, can't they kill the lobster right before they boil it, so it'll be dead as it boils?

I found this explanation on the web:

"And finally, the reason to cook the lobster ALIVE is to avoid food poisoning. All shellfish have a tendency to take revenge and toxicate themselves quickly, unless immediately frozen once dead. If you DO decide to cook a dead lobster, do NOT eat it if it smells like AMMONIA."

So, poisons are released into their systems when they die. Some things I read say you can try it and see if the cooked-when-dead lobster seems okay, others say don't even risk it.

bakerstreet

on Feb 16, 2005

You can spike a lobster at the base of its head with a good heavy chef's knife just before you pop it in the pot. Supposedly it kills it instantly. I've read that they aren't alive for more than a couple of seconds in the water anyway, so it is probably not much better.

Shovelheat

on Feb 16, 2005

Beleive it or not, I am 44 years old and have NEVER EATEN LOBSTER! I remember growing up on a farm & ranch and hunting rabbit, quail, mourning doves, bullfrogs and even rattlesnake, but they all went to the table, nothing was ever wasted. I can tell you one thing for sure, from experience, proper hunting done correctly is a good thing. To kill for the hell of it is wrong and I have never done it, even to a bug.

Rightwinger

on Feb 16, 2005

Once I became Buddhist, I quit hunting.... one of the eight precepts of Buddhism is 'right action' and it specifically states that Buddhists should abstain from killing.

---dharmagirl

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but why, then, did Buddhist peoples evolve deadly or potentially deadly martial arts? How do they justify it to themselves if they're not supposed to kill? I've never understood this.

dharmagrl

on Feb 16, 2005

Not to turn this into a religious discussion, but why, then, did Buddhist peoples evolve deadly or potentially deadly martial arts? How do they justify it to themselves if they're not supposed to kill? I've never understood this.

Killing for the sake of killing is wrong. Defending oneself from enemies is not wrong. Violence for violence' sake is wrong. Meeting violence by physically defending oneself is not wrong.
I think that you're referring to the samurai....and whilst I'm not samurai and can't give you any insight into their mindset, I do have some explanations for you. Out of respect to Tex and her blog, I'd prefer it if you emailed me for the explanations: dharmagirl69@gmail.com

Hyperborean Wanderer

on Feb 16, 2005

I'm going to dumb down the debate by using bumper-sticker philosophy; if it's wrong to eat animals, why are they made our of meat?

Hyperborean Wanderer

on Feb 16, 2005

I'm going to dumb down the debate by using bumper-sticker philosophy; if it's wrong to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?

Myrrander

on Feb 16, 2005

The Shaolin monks of China certainly weren't the same as Japanese Samurai (and the vast majority of Samurai were Shintoists not Buddhists).

These Buddhist monks did indeed develop fighting arts, but they were to be for defense only. It goes back to the idea of not using weapons, so they fought with their bodies when attacked.

Hope that helps clear things up.

messybuu

on Feb 16, 2005

So, poisons are released into their systems when they die. Some things I read say you can try it and see if the cooked-when-dead lobster seems okay, others say don't even risk it.

Wow. I didn't know that. That's definitely a good reason not to kill it first.

You can spike a lobster at the base of its head with a good heavy chef's knife just before you pop it in the pot. Supposedly it kills it instantly. I've read that they aren't alive for more than a couple of seconds in the water anyway, so it is probably not much better.

Really? It always seemed to me that boiling in water would be a slow and painful death, but I guess they're also placed in boiling water and not placed in lukewarm water that's being heated to a boil.

Gideon MacLeish

on Feb 17, 2005

Once I became Buddhist, I quit hunting.... one of the eight precepts of Buddhism is 'right action' and it specifically states that Buddhists should abstain from killing.

This is one area where I understand Buddhism more than any other. My biggest reservation in getting chickens is gonna be butchering time (so we're starting small...my thought is, after I've raised a few broilers, it'll be a little easier...like cleaning fish).

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