Lobster game roils activists

eh, this is fine. I've played a game like this before and the slight grab of a claw is probably nothing compared to the beating the lobsters would take in the ocean. this is like saying you can't use a cattle prod to move cattle towards the slaughterhouse imo. I agree with animals rights activists periodically but this just makes no sense

"pennphinfan wrote:

eh, this is fine. I've played a game like this before and the slight grab of a claw is probably nothing compared to the beating the lobsters would take in the ocean. this is like saying you can't use a cattle prod to move cattle towards the slaughterhouse imo. I agree with animals rights activists periodically but this just makes no sense

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Grabbing them with a soft claw bad. Dropping them in boiling water yummy.

I hear ya.

am I the only one that found this part funny as hell

"To pull off limbs, to poke them in the eye, to otherwise torment these animals ... we just find that appalling," said Melissa Gates

I don't know I just keep seeing a replay again and again of a lobster getting hit in the eye with the claw, then someone near the tank getting super pissed off about it.......

By Anne

May 7, 2009 11:16 AM | Link to this

I am curious what makes those who care about all living creatures "crazy" in PBP readers' eyes? These people are only trying to protect vulnerable creatures from needless suffering.

Recall that advocates for
women's rights and human equality often underwent the same type of idiotic ridicule from people who wanted to continue their tradition of oppression...

It seems to me that the real crazies are the ones who will do anything -- including torturing and then boiling other living creatures alive -- for a buck and to fill their fat guts.

This is what makes me think animal activists are out of touch. Really? Making sure a lobster doesn't get hit in the face with a plastic claw makes you equivalent to civil rights workers?

"unluckyluciano wrote:

This is what makes me think animal activists are out of touch. Really? Making sure a lobster doesn't get hit in the face with a plastic claw makes you equivalent to civil rights workers?

I wish they still had tanks full of women that you could choose from. *sigh* The Good Old Days.

Another article, this time from Colorado.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/06/30/peta-targets-lobster-game

Order one for your house!
http://www.lobstergame.com/

Arthropods are people too.:shifty:

"Frumundah Finnatic wrote:

Arthropods are people too.:shifty:

The yummiest kind! Next up: Garlic abuse, skinning the cloves alive is inhumane.

rpb ale house FTW.....i love trivia.....and their wings rock

cockroaches of the sea... the only reason people like them is that stupit rock lobstah song.. and they turn red.. and they are really good with drawn butter and lemon..otherwise, it's the Black Flag treatment all upside down with kicking legs

you take a knife to the brain and then cook them

"maynard wrote:

you take a knife to the brain and then cook them

how barbaric.. the least you could do is stun them with hot water first

That reminds me of the iguana extermination law that is in effect now.

Legal: A blow to the head, followed by decapitation.

More than 1 blow to the head = animal cruelty.

"opfinistic wrote:

That reminds me of the iguana extermination law that is in effect now.

Legal: A blow to the head, followed by decapitation.

More than 1 blow to the head = animal cruelty.

man, I saw the news the other day and couldn't believe my eyes...

Haven't gimmicks like this been around for years?

"cnc66 wrote:

how barbaric.. the least you could do is stun them with hot water first

ya being dunked in stunningly hot water surely feels alot better :lol:

"unluckyluciano wrote:

This is what makes me think animal activists are out of touch. Really? Making sure a lobster doesn't get hit in the face with a plastic claw makes you equivalent to civil rights workers?

there are plenty of sane animal activists, but there are surely a lot of crazies too.

my brother's research lab got threats of firebombing because the activists thought that they worked on monkeys, which they don't. they even caught a guy trespassing in the lab videotaping one morning before animal rights week. some of them are just crazy.

"pennphinfan wrote:

there are plenty of sane animal activists, but there are surely a lot of crazies too.

my brother's research lab got threats of firebombing because the activists thought that they worked on monkeys, which they don't. they even caught a guy trespassing in the lab videotaping one morning before animal rights week. some of them are just crazy.

don't get me wrong man, I don't think all are crazy. I don't think its wrong to ask for a little humanity when killing animals even cows and chickens. But I would say there seems to be alot of lunacy when it comes to animal rights activists, or at least overzealous feelings of importance. :lol:

"opfinistic wrote:

That reminds me of the iguana extermination law that is in effect now.

Legal: A blow to the head, followed by decapitation.

More than 1 blow to the head = animal cruelty.

gad damn zombie iguanas.