I just saw this on the news:

PETA is considering a lawsuit against Martha Stewart for, on a live show, removing live soft-shell crabs from their shells and frying them as they wriggled in the pan. Connecticut law protects animals from cruel killings.

Even though many people will undoubtedly think it ridiculous suit made by over-the-top fanatics, it is my opinion that they are right if they do go through with it. Why does she need to deshell and fry live crabs? I know they're fresh, but can't she just get prekilled, fresh crabs?

rigmarole

so I sent them the following email

"For your newscasters to make light of an animal being killed in a torturous manner shows severe lack of humanity when she jested, "Did they [lobsters] wriggle too?". Sure, I'm a vegan, so I seem a radical or somesuch to you. But I don't condemn your eating of meat, just the heartless way you so flippantly disregard that animals other than humans, even if you see them only as food, have the right to die as painlessly as possible. I don't know her name but that woman should maybe think for a minute on the last few moments of the crabs which Martha fried alive. "

:rockon:

I hope she goes to jail :notvegan:. I don't are how horrible that sounds, just because you can't hear an animal cry doesn't mean they're not in pain! :cry: You know I never knew rabbits screamed until my brother fed one to his Python.....:cry: It was horrible.




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I hope she goes to jail :notvegan: and becomes part of the 40% that gets raped. I don't are how horrible that sounds, just because you can't hear an animal cry doesn't mean they're not in pain! :cry: You know I never knew rabbits screamed until my brother fed one to his Python.....:cry: It was horrible.

I know. I used to have 7 snakes who ate live mice and rats. I loved them as animals but I reached a point where I couldn't feed them anymore. It can be very very very very gruesome and excruciatingly painful for the mice. You might not want to read this next line:
I've seen more than one mouse eye explode from the pressure of being squeezed by my boa, and they lived for a minute or so until they suffocated. Sometimes I can still hear them scream.

I'm not evil....really...I gave the snakes away, didn't even sell them

rigmarole

I'm not evil....really...I gave the snakes away, didn't even sell them

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I don't think you're evil at all. I've grown up around snakes(my brother had them) but when they are so big you have to feed them live food--it's dishearting(?) when you have to do it yourself-even though you know it happens in the wild, but you're not there to witness it. We've had everything from Tarantulas to scorpions to pythons(both ball and burmese)to ferrets to a duck etc....I love all animals but couldn't go thru that again. :(

I hope she goes to jail :notvegan: and becomes part of the 40% that gets raped. I don't are how horrible that sounds, just because you can't hear an animal cry doesn't mean they're not in pain! :cry: You know I never knew rabbits screamed until my brother fed one to his Python.....:cry: It was horrible.

wow. i certainly agree that cooking animals alive is cruel and should be discouraged, but as a rape survivor, i find your flippant attitude about rape pretty disturbing.

ouch I am feeling the rape thing too...as a survivor it is really disturbing to read such a thing...

ouch I am feeling the rape thing too...as a survivor it is really disturbing to read such a thing...


I had apologized in a PM about the comment....I just think it's something that is just as violating as what she did to the lobster-took away it's choice, humility and dignity...sorry for being so grufff.

... disturbed by the show... it WAS terrible!!

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=9546

amy