Animal Advocates Watchdog
"Crabs used for food are subject to killing methods that would warrant felony cruelty-to-animals charges if the victims were cats, dogs, cows, or pigs. Like lobsters, crabs are often thrown into pots of scalding-hot water and boiled alive—the crabs will fight so hard against a clearly painful death that their claws often break off in their struggle to escape. Some crabs used for food are electrocuted, some are chopped up, and others are microwaved—all while they are still conscious." http://www.fishinghurts.com/feat-crabslife2.asp
"Ultimately, Whole Foods management decided to immediately stop selling live lobsters and soft-shell crabs, saying they could not ensure the creatures are treated with respect and compassion." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/16/national/main1720259.shtml?source=RSS&attr=Business_1720259
Messages In This Thread
- The SPCA is boiling crabs alive again *LINK* *PIC*
- Is refusing to boil animals alive just more of that disreputable "animal rights advocates" nonsense?
- Is the BC SPCA content with saying the right thing, but not doing the right thing?
- Civilization is another word for respect for life
- I spy an oxymoron
- Sea Shepherd Society's Paul Watson's message to the SPCA: Some People Just Don't Get it!!!!!!
- An animal welfare organization? I don't see how they have the gall to use that term
- People will do most anything for money and this certainly proves the point
- Shame on this Animal Helfare Society! *LINK*
- Looking forward to the follow-up P.R.
- I am shaking my head....
- For once in my life I am speechless
- It has long bothered me that some SPCA fundraisers have taken the form of hot dog sales and BBQs
- Crab Boil: Vancouver Sun: BC SPCA's P.R. person says it's up to the branch to decide
- The Province: Environmental group protests charity event
- Crab Boil is cancelled
- I urge you to have strictly vegetarian fund-raisers at all branches, at all times
- SPCA denies that crabs feel pain in spite of learned opinion
- Prince Rupert SPCA cancels crab boil after public outcry
- These basic questions beg careful consideration.
- Contravening own policies for money
- SPCA crab feast led to bomb threat, says RCMP
- SPCA interview on As It Happens
- I'm left with a sick feeling that, if they could have got away with it, they would have
- Boiling crabs is antithetical to SPCA's raison d'etre
- Rafe Mair weighs in with comment
- Paul Watson - The SPCA: they just don't seem to understand the contradictions
- All beings are sentient. All beings suffer. All beings 'feel' that suffering
- "Food for Thought" helps SPCAs to see the contradictions between rescuing some animals — and eating others! *LINK*
- Vancouver Sun: Petition to stop the SPCA from serving animals to raise money to "prevent cruelty"
- Boiling crabs? Not funny! *NM* *PIC*
- Is the BC SPCA content with saying the right thing, but not doing the right thing?
- Is refusing to boil animals alive just more of that disreputable "animal rights advocates" nonsense?
