shit.. now im craving lobster.

I thought if you were in PETA you needed to be a vegetarian or vegan. How are these people serving up lobster at an official event? Kind of hypocritical, no?

PETA has always been a sad, sad joke. Vegetarians and vegans that support them are entirely misguided and plain out stupid and clearly did no research into the fucked up organization they throw money at.

There is also a fairly unknown tidbit that PETA wishes would go away. Not many people are aware that PETA kills more cats and dogs the both the SPCA and animal shelters combined.

It seems they try to save more then they can afford to take care of. What a hugely hypocritical organization they are and always have been.

Really ass fags?

I eat meat and even hunt waterfowl and upland birds, butcher lambs, turkeys, chickens and other animals for MEAT but, I STILL support PETA because they have focused light on and brought to the attentuion of millions, an ENORMOUS amount of MASSIVE iinhumane abuse of factory farmed animals, circus animals and the fur industry etc.

They have achieved TREMENDOUS good for the sake of anumals dick fucks. Quit making blanket statements of idiocy with out doing your research first

I agree that lobster product is non sense and they can be a bit extreme but to wash them off as all just a bunch of hippie freak vegitarians and extremist pigs is just as shallow as you are..... mud puddle.

Wow. Big news. If that made you cry, you'll find http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ something to be clinically depressed over.

Find the truth, and the truth is sadly, that PETA never had the interest of the animals in mind.

How you can claim to be a meat-eater and a PETA-supporter at the same time is beyond me, and I know all about those people. Not only do you hunt, but you also slaughter ranged animals? Then how is PETA not breaking down your door right now? I mean, since you support them, then you'd know how strict their SURFACE policy is regarding animal cruelty and such, right? You'd fit right in. That's why I believe that you don't know damned-thing-one about the REAL PETA. Hell, they run celebrities through the ringer for wearing ANYTHING made from animal parts, be it leather sandals or a sheepskin bag, for cryin' out loud. Since you're a big hunter, and all, I'd imagine that they buy the materials from you. Hypocrite.

Just shut your mouth. You don't know anything about PETA. They're no better than all of the money-grubbing cults out there, or any of the greedy creeps in the world.

What a moron...

You people are really moronic, and apparently have the reading comprehension of a 2nd grader (or would that be an insult to a 2nd grader?) First of all, the people who ate the lobster were not PETA members, but members of the Child and Family Resource Centre in Tucson, Ariz. PETA was obviously trying to demonstrate to these people a non-violent way to eat the animals, as opposed to boiling them in scalding hot water while ALIVE. This has actually been written about extensively by NON-VEGETARIANS, such as in the book "Consider the Lobster." PETA members are actually vegan, not vegetarian, FYI--and this article also looks like it was written by a highschool dropout. 

My Father in law has a different way, he puts them on the chopping black and centers them, then splits them right down their length with a big cleaver.  Sometimes he has to hit them a couple times to get a clean separation..  The legs are still trying to crawl afterwards  Then he throws them on a cookie sheet and bakes them with butter and a little garlic.  It's delicious, and much tastier than steamed.

Sorry, obviously I don't mean "chopping black", and I would never condone such a thing.  We use chopping blocks.

You got your PETA acronyms confused..  this story is about the People Eating Tasty Animals PETA group, not the tree hugging, armpit-not-shaving, patchouli stinking, human hating, hypocritical PETA that is supposed to be about humane treatment for animals but instead kills a bunch of them and just generally makes asses out of themselves.

PETA kills animals due to their overpopulation in their shelters, which I can understand, and to some (read: SOME) extent, agree with.  Yet they condemn other organizations for doing the same thing.  

PETA funds the AFL, a terrorist (sorry, but firebombing labs that do Animal testing is terrorist activity), organization.  While the AFL does have a good cause at heart, they go about it all wrong.  That being said, I agree with animal testing, at least as far as medication goes, cosmetics on the other hand...  Not so much.

PETA has good things in mind, but is just wrong in the way they operate.  Not saying there aren't things wrong with the way animals are sometimes treated, but PETA takes this to the extreme.  According to PETA, you shouldn't even have a pet, which is just ludicrous. Also, there is not a single thing wrong with eating meat, our teeth are sharp to tear flesh, our stomachs are filled with enzymes to break down meat, it is the natural order.  However, most people today have a tendency to ignore the importance of a well balanced diet, eating more meat than vegetables is bad, same goes for the opposite.  Especially considering that the only source of complete proteins in a vegetarian diet is Soy, the problem with this, comes from the fact that you take in mass amounts of one singular food.  Over-indulgence in anything, food or otherwise, is not healthy.  I'm not saying that a vegetarian or even vegan diet can't be healthy, just that it's hard to find that right balance, and the reasons that most people have for going on such a diet aren't terribly well thought out.

As far as fur products go, I have a kind of mixed standpoint.  The wearing of fur, is not where I raise an issue, nor is the raising of animals for fur, my problem lies strictly in where the meat from these skinned animals go.  Should this meat also be packaged and distributed for human consumption, I would be MORE than thrilled, but as of now, it doesn't.  This is the single issue with fur (aside from how some animals are treated while being raised.)

I would also like to note that Ingrid Newkirk, the current president of PETA is, for lack of a better word, insane.  When asked about her stance on having children, she was quoted as saying

"I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity." 

If I am taking this correctly, she WANTS the human race to die out.

I'd also like to make one final point (I swear, this is the last one) about Genetic Engineered food.  There is no, I repeat, NO evidence to say that organic food is healthier for you.  Now, that being said, some organic food tastes better.  One of my personal favorite examples is peaches.  An organic peach, 9 times out of 10, I find to be a bit juicier than a genetically engineered peach.  As far as pesticides go, most of them can be harmful to humans, in large amounts, the best known example is DDT.  Should one constantly keep their fields under a carpet of DDT, as many did, of course it's going to have a harmful effect on any living thing.  Another pesticide that has been banned is Chlordane, now, I disagree and agree with the banning of Chlordane.  I disagree, due to the fact that if Chlordane is used properly, it is relatively harmless to humans.  The problem is, Chlordane was (and for all the Chlordane that still remains unused, is) extremely potent, and most people added a little more than directed (teaspoon per gallon of water, iirc), to make sure it worked, and that caused issues.  As I see it, one should not only need a pesticide license (such as the one my father has), but a certification to use certain pesticides, such as Chlordane.  The reason I bring this issue up, is simply because PETA is against Genetic Engineering and all for organic food.

To sum this all up, for those who didn't wanna read this whole thing = PETA: Good intention, about as bad of an execution as you can get.

For every anti-meat eating post that comes up on this story, I will personally eat two pieces of meat.

By posting, whiny vegetarians will actively be helping to increase the amount of meat consumed in this world.

I await my meals.

Protip:  If you'd like to cook a lobster without tossing it live into boiling water and don't have 3Gs laying around for fancy Lobster Taser Box, just put them in the freezer and count to fifteen.  They're dead as a doornail when you get them out.

PETA is daft, the world aint being changed by not cooking lobsters. The world can't survive on tofu.

Peta supports the inhumane treatment and slaughter of defenseless vegatables and legumes!  How can they look a potato in the eye and say, it's time for french fries!!!  Boiling water or oil lobster or potato they are condemned to an inhumane torturous death!  Peta would be much less hypocritical if they stopped eating all of their fellow forms of life!

The level of intelligence on display here is absolutely incredible.  What the heck has PETA ever done to the PETA haters???  Seriously?  They have essentially single-handed improved conditions for both farm animals and laboratory animals while simultaneously having to defend themselves against the ill-founded, ridiculous trash that the anti-PETA crowd has spewed against them.   What do they ask for in return?  Nothing.  Donations to cover their expenses in doing something that the rest of us should have championed 50 years ago.  

Eating meat isn't wrong but the system that we have in place for the production of that meat is absolutely appalling.

@Delicious:  I'll personally NOT eat three pieces of meat for every anti-PETA comment in here:)  I await my delicious meals - heck I'll probably lose some weight and be healthy too...   win/win.

Killing innocent lobsters is disgusting. A lobster should only be killed if it has been tried and found guilty in a court of law...

I don't have much of an opinion on PETA, I just want to point out that this author is clearly a moron who cannot even proofread his or her poor excuse for writing.Please people, stay in school, or go back to school. Read a book. Do whatever it takes so that some day you can express an intelligent and coherent thought in the form of a written sentence that isn't riddled with mistakes.

The responses are funnier than the article.   Thanks for confirming that I am not the biggest loser.

PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals

Freeze the lobster first that way it will sleep and die, then you can boil it with out any suffering.

Also Peta you guys are just over the top and a bunch of Hypocrites. If a human person boils in hot water you suffer don't you think electricity you would suffer?? Put your finger in a light socket and see if you suffer.. (not recommended unless you want to die.)

PETA actually never really stood for anything.  Their just a different kind of terror group operating internationally.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAt1z_TgPQ4&feature=PlayList&p=670EC103F2F97CD7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14

People PEOPLE!style="background-color:yellow" style="font-size:14px" style="font-family:Arial Bold"I can't believe the number of you who are surprised by the hypocrasy.  PETA douches are almost all leftists.  Leftist's have their own moral code. One in which they are allowed to "have it their way".  Their 1st principle  is "the ends always justify the means".  While themedia is lightening fast to point out the slightes hypocrsasy from a conservative, they ignore numerous such violartions daily from the left because they have declared that logic reason and the judeo Christian ethic do not apply to them. If this is news you really havn't been paying attention.

F*CK PETA...

They should be on the national terror organization list. They have given money to eco-terrorism groups (ELF) in the past.

This article is pointless. I'm going to cook a steak now. Tasty, tasty meat.

Once again, and I will never get tired of saying this, F*CK PETA. They would rather see a person die than a chicken. Bunch of stupid hippie/communist as*holes.

F*CK PETA!

It's not AFL, it's ALF. And how is firebombing animal testing facilities a terrorist act? There is never any living creature inside, human or animal, when something like this occurs. Even if months of planning went into a lab destruction, the whole thing is called off if there's even a chance that a human or animal could be injured. The point is not to scare people but make these business lose money. If a testing facility is losing money to ALF actions then financially it becomes necessary to cease the testing. And regardless of what you may claim to know, IT WORKS. And by saying that destruction to property is terrorism, you put the same value on material objects as you do life. Now THAT is the fucked up way to think. There is absolutely nothing to learn from animal testing. The only reason it still goes on is to aquire money in the form of "funding" for these tests. Even if you eat meat, why would you support vivisection? There's absolutely no reason for it.

PeopleEatingTastyAnimals

bwaaahahahahaha

Wait, this isnt the Onion??

Thanks to all of you who dug this story.  I never expected such a response.  The article was written more as a joke than a factual representation of what goes on.  If you have a more factual representation of this, or any other story, just register on the site and post the article as a response.  The purpose of Mizozo is to root out the truth behind a story, comments just can't do that.

Oh, and for those that couldn't see through the sarcasm, I have never had any respect for PETA or what they stood for.  There methods have always been extremely poorly thought through.  Matt above said it best, Good intention, about as bad of an execution as you can get.

Nothing brings out the cookie cutter responses like a PETA article. I dislike their methods and the organization as a whole but it takes serious cojones to fight for a cause that people so viciously oppose.

It's an up hill battle, and yeah you did butcher the article by making it appear as if the even was planned by PETA - when in fact it was really that PETA was intervening to offer them a more humane way of cooking the lobster meal they were offering. Obviously they screwed up royally - and PETA should have instead ordered some sort of vegan or vegetarian alternative to the lobster meal. Sure people would be pissed but if they could provide good tasting vegetarian dishes - people would be just as pleased.

They messed up a golden opportunity, but sadly the real tragedy here is that you butchered the story to pander to an audience that is so obviously out for blood at the very mention of PETA (and sadly animal rights by extension).

Whatever the article is. Boiling lobsters alive is as inhumane (or inlobsterine :-/ ) as possible. However hard it is to prove that lobsters do suffer in boiling water (sic) there is one  scientific observation that makes you think about it. And if anybody thinks is funny or uniportant , he should seek for medical assistance..

As all the animals we kill for food die quite suddenly, yes there is suffering but as limmited as possible. natural reaction of any mammal's brain, we eat, is "system shut down" in life treatening situations. Humans as well, fall in to shock when heavylly wounded. Thats our safety fuse to keep being alive whille almost dead. There is limited pain and chemicals are trying to limit the damage.

Now, crustacens' brains are so primitive that their reactions are automatic and their brain doesn't have that qualities. Their responce is to avoid denger, escape extreme conditions as long as possible. So when you boil lobster alive you are basicly keeping it alive untill all its life functions are stopped by heating its organs, till they break. 

And of course they do feel pain all the time , if they didn't (as some people state) there would be no lobsters at all as feeling pain is one of basic factors in staing alife.

So there is no easy way of killing lobsters , but boiling them alive I can only associate with being disturbed sad indyvidual.

Baza

Did anyone forget to mention that they are f***ing lobsters?  The whole point of their existence is to be eaten by higher forms of life.  If this much energy and $$$ was put into feeding humans, the world would be a much better place.  How long could you feed a family of 4 for $3500?  Instead lets purchase a device (sorry 2 - WTF?) to kill lobsters humanly.  there are much more atrocities in this world that we should be worrying about then the pain a crustacean feels. 

Of all the comments, YoYoMa seems to be the only person truly understanding the hypocrisy oozing from the article.  We live in a world where almost 1 billion people are suffering from malnutrition.  Instead of finding 'humane' ways to kill lobsters, this effort can be put into first feeding the starving people of this planet.  What kind of sick person cares more about the welfare of lobsters than the welfare of humanity?

This falls along the lines of genetically engineered foods and 'organic' products.  Those that oppose genetically engineered foods for their own selfish reasons need to be ashamed of themselves.  These wastes of breath care only about their own personal well being, while completely ignoring the fact that without genetically modified rice and grains millions of people would be dying daily from starvation.  How selfish can you be in order to make a statement like "Buy organic, save the planet"?  You aren't saving the planet, but you are destroying lives.

Let the lobsters die the way they have always died.  PETA should learn to concentrate their efforts on things that matter rather than the fictitious suffering of crustaceans.  This is absolutely ridiculous.

The article with the comments is a great example of human hypocrisy. Just because you love to eat steak or chicken sandwich, it does not give you the right to support barbarian and savage practises!

Do you barbarians know that some part of human flesh is very yummy? And humans are the predominant animal population on the planet? So, according to you, if some alien race - say "Alpha" comes to earth for food, then they should be allowed to kill and eat us? To prevent rigor mortis, dropping one in live water might help?

We are quick to criticize torture, revenge-killing, terrorist attacks, genocide and cannibalism, but always tend to overlook our own tendency to do the same on animals? 

We are quick to forget that we might not remain on the top of the food chain on earth. Have you ever thought that if some alien species come and eats us the same way as lobsters? Then PETA might sound good?

I am not a PETA spokesperson and I do understand that they are not perfect but they are up for a good cause!

 According to its website, PETA focuses on four core issues: factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment. It also campaigns against the killing of animals regarded as pests, the abuse of backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting. It aims to inform the public through advertisements, undercover investigations, animal rescue, and lobbying. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainmen

@Sam

Your father in law is a sick sick man.

HMMM... People Eating Tasty Animinals ... makes perfect sense to me !

It's a confusing situation, but I think that this is some serious egg on PETA's face. Regardless of whether you eat meat or not, boiling a creature alive is inhumane and torturous. If you wish to eat lobster, I think you'd agree that we'd hope that they be killed before. There's no tradeoff in having the lobster endure an excruciating death - it's not as if it'll taste better. Watch TV Free Online

There's a lot of hot chicks in PETA that I'd like to boil and eat like a lobster!

If PETA is concerned about animal overpopulation, and hence, advocating the destruction of these animals, then I vote they assist with the human overpopulation issue by volunteering themselves as food to starving, 3rd world countries!