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The Way This Local Seafood Restaurant Roasted PETA After They Posted A Sign Urging People Not To Eat Crabs Is Epic
Baltimore loves its crab and seafood restaurants. The city is rightly known for delicious recipes using the iconic ‘Maryland crab,’ or blue crab, which made PETA’s attempts to get people to stop eating seafood quite a long shot.
The animal rights organization posted a huge billboard in the city, urging people to see each crab as an individual with a personality and go vegan. The scientific name for the species, Callinectes sapidus, means ‘savory beautiful swimmers’ in English, which pretty much sums up just how long we have been craving the sweet meat of these abundant creatures. Did PETA think the billboard would make any difference to people’s eating habits? Who knows. But it certainly did get people talking!
Local restaurant Jimmy’s Seafood was at the forefront of the backlash to the PETA ads, going on a Twitter rampage against PETA, some of their vegan supporters and pretty much anyone that crossed their path. “Crab is the backbone of Baltimore,” Luke David Maye, a representative of the restaurant told Bored Panda. “For decades, we have been known for our steamed blue crabs, soft crabs, and crab cakes. Every single Maryland restaurant serves some sort of crab dish.”
The extraordinary exchanges quickly went viral, as people couldn’t quite believe a business would go so public with its opinions. However, with the local delicacy of crab cakes ingrained into the local culture, we don’t think that Jimmy’s is going to be losing too much business over this. In fact, their frank and at times hilarious tweets have probably earned them a few extra fans along the way. The family-owned restaurant has been a fixture in the city since 1974 and has received a positive reaction to the Twitter storm so far. “People are thrilled to see a small, family-owned business stick up to such a treacherous and deceitful organization,” Luke told us. “We have a team that handles our social media. We all work hard on it, and it’s a group effort.”
Scroll down below to check out the best tweets from Jimmy’s Seafood for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Animal rights movement PETA caused a stir in crab-loving Baltimore recently with this billboard
Local restaurant Jimmy’s Seafood was at the forefront of the backlash, expressing some remarkably frank opinions
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Random Panda 6 years ago
I hate PETA, because they kill 90% of the animals brought to them (and even stole and euthanized family pets, look it up) and churn out lie after lie to support their ridiculous claims, but I can't see how this backfired on them. Ok, Jimmy's shared one article regarding the kill rates, but other than that they pretty much made PETA's point for them with their childishness.
BlackestDawn 6 years ago
Yeah can't see much backfire, if any at all. Would have probably been beter if Jimmy's started of with that article and then went on to dismantle PETA in terms of exactly how animal friendly and hypocritical they are.
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Cathy 6 years ago
There is enough arguing and bickering on the internet. I love BP for the positive stories. No need to continue this negative energy here.
Bored Fox 6 years ago
Too many people still believe that PETA is a good company so anything that tells the truth about it is a positive energy.
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anarkzie 6 years ago
"The Way This Local Seafood Restaurant Roasted PETA" Translated local seafood restaurant act's like twats online. Really why is this a story on BP? It's not remotely witty, it's just basic online trollying, find something that some one cares about and post something that contracdicts it then wait for a respounce, or BP to feature it as a story.
Debbie Hovatter Larkins 6 years ago
PETA put up a billboard, intending to ruin this business, and the business retaliated. How are they at fault? And, by the way, WTF vegan seafood?
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Hans 6 years ago
How did anything backfire here but for a ridiculous "twitter debate" from both sides, which did simply express opinions and assumptions rather than containing any facts on either side? Not worth the read.
Gabriel Osorio 2 years ago
People Eating Tasty Animals: Certified nutcases for animals since 1980
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Kalle 6 years ago
I don't know how this roasting of PETA by this seafood restaurant is 'epic' in any way. This is childish and cringe worthy. I'm not a big fan of PETA myself but in this case I'm on their side. Also, congratulations for another anti-vegan post, BoredPanda! Let's fill our souls with hate against the people who do way more right than wrong with their life-style. Disclaimer: I'm not vegan, but posts like this slowly moves me towards it.
Aahzmandus Pervect 6 years ago
If posts like these can move you towards veganism, that says a lot about you. Where did you see anything remotely anti-vegan here? Being a restaurant that serves seafood is automatically anti-vegan? If I'm not with you, I'm against you? Yeah, that sounds about right for PETA mindset.
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Master Markus 6 years ago
I was expecting an actually clever shut down or at least something to show off their hypocrisy (like the article about PETA euthanizing animals) but NO they saved that for way at the end after they bickered like a bunch of 12 year olds on a playground.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
You do realize that you can buy (and cheap) any kind of article getting written? As well as buy just enough shares & likes to spread it out. There maybe was some mixture of truth, maybe one or two employees who behaved out of organization's best interest (who doesn't have problems like that hitting once and again..?) but this whole anti-peta story sounds like big bubble blown of thin air to me and very useful to those who can score some morality points without actually doing any change to the way they run their business (hey, look at me, I'm cooking pork, but at least I'm not like PETA, come leave your $ at my place). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/
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Barbara Gale 6 years ago
JUST SOME OF WHAT PETA HAS DONE - IGNORANCE IS JUST STUPIDITY - LEARN ABOUT THEM BEFORE YOU SPEAK SUCH HATE PETA’s first undercover investigation resulted in an end to crippling experiments on monkeys, the first-ever police raid on an animal-testing laboratory, the first animal experimentation case ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the first-ever prosecution and conviction of an animal experimenter on cruelty-to-animals charges. PETA exposed and shut down the U.S. Army’s plan to shoot dogs at an indoor firing range, leading the military to ban the use of dogs, cats, and primates in wound experiments and training. In an unprecedented move, PETA closed a Texas slaughterhouse operation in which 30,000 horses were trucked in and left to starve in frozen fields without shelter. 1990’s After PETA exposed the backstage beating of orangutans by Las Vegas entertainer Bobby Berosini, his wildlife permit was suspended and his show closed. Following PETA’s campaigns
Deena Salzman 6 years ago
He look...another stupid anti-vegan post on Bored Panda. I will never not comment or thumbs down. Everyone knows PETA is whacked but I just do not get the point of these posts.
DisChickenWang 6 years ago
peta has taken my grandfathers dog, which was being taken care of perfectly fine but had a minor injury that had gotten infected. We had already taken her to a vet and had the dog on antibiotics for the infection. PETA came and took my grandfathers dog away and when my grandfather went to go retrieve his beloved dog; peta had already "ended the poor things suffering" to all of you that support peta, you are supporting what happened to my grandfathers beloved Teresa
Bonita Bielawski 6 years ago
That’s ridiculous! Selfritious arseholes. How dare they decide they know better. I’m South African so I don’t understand really, but who gives them authority to do such things?
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Jim Mowreader 6 years ago
You know what's great about vegans? They spend a third of the day telling you and I that eating animals is this terrible, awful, horrid thing, a third of the day pretending that animals act exactly like humans, and the rest of the day trying to make vegetables taste exactly like meat.
Abby Rexroth 6 years ago
Yummy, crab! PETA is a POS group that kill more domestic animals than the animal control!
Miklos Legrady 6 years ago
PETA are the ones chasing old ladies in fur coatsto spray paint them, while they themselves wear leather shoes, leather belts, wallets, etc. They make videos of bloody animals screaming and put them on youtube among the cartoons watched by 3-5 year olds. The professional justice warrior with a huge ego doing the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong time.
C.S. 6 years ago
As soon as Peta admits to killing 10's of 1,000's of animals while hypocritically whining about animal treatment.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago
It seems that they do admit. It was decided by field professionals that euthanizing is in best interest to deal with difficult situation so I'll leave decision to them because I didn't spend my life studying and working with animals to know better. Problem is overpopulation of dogs/cats and caused by humans in the first place and there seems to be just no pretty way to fix this problem. It's too bad that organisation that stands on this difficult but required stance regarding this complicated and ugly situation gets so much bad press while someone who doesn't do a thing and continues to collect cash on from unsustainable businesses now gets extra good publicity points for bashing the "evil organisation".
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Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
BP should choose more carefully its contents. True, people all have different interests. Some love the art posts, other prefer the funny posts... But then, there comes that kind of posts that are boring to everyone and as if it's not enough, they are also ridiculously long. Can we just abandon this kind of posts for something better?
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Nearly 16,000 rats and mice and 600 reptiles, many of whom were dying, were seized from waste-filled cages at Global Captive Breeders, LLC, after a PETA undercover investigation led to the largest animal rescue in California history. Thanks to scientists from PETA India, PETA U.S., and PETA U.K., India made it illegal to test cosmetics on animals and to sell cosmetics that have been tested on animals elsewhere within their borders. PETA persuaded leading brands like General Mills, Kroger, Dannon, Chipotle, Nestlé, Harris Teeter, Denny’s, and Dunkin’ Brands to adopt policies that encourage their suppliers to end cruel dehorning practices, in which calves’ horn tissue is painfully burned or gouged out of their skulls. The U.S. military banned the mutilation of animals in several medical training areas following a vigorous PETA campaign.
Nostalgic Hyena 6 years ago
I can't stand PETA.. apparently eating meat/eggs/etc. is "evil" but they slaughter tons of pets for no reason and have done literally nothing to help animals like red pandas that are going seriously endangered. Talk about hypocritical!
Carlos Torron 6 years ago
I love all life. I thought for a while that an organization like PETA had answers After all the research, I'm highly disappointed. Numbers don't lie, and this particular organization gets a lot of money from donations. From people who care for life. Who don't know better. Stop the b******t PETA. We're on to you. I want crab salad now. I'll keep my kitty.
Fanli Yang 6 years ago
I understand your disappointment, but PETA does not represent the whole vegan movement. They might have been at the frontline in exposures and in the headlines for controversies, but veganism started way earlier than PETA, with endorsement by many ancient traditions, especially in the East. If you love all lives, why not treat the crab and the kitty equally? Even though the latter is cuter and more cuddle-able, the crabs has exactly the same drive to survive, and right to thrive.
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Curious Cat 6 years ago
America... a wack-o for a President, unaffordable health care, more people in prison than any other country... and Crab fights. Truth is , while Jimmys has every right to sell Crab, there will be a time when we'll run out. Enjoy while you can. and hey.. good luck America.
Joseph Brzezinski 6 years ago
How did you turn this post into a "trump" thing?
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John Louis 6 years ago
This may be the dumbest article on Boredpanda ever. I can't see how anyone "won" this childish and incomprehensible exchange.
phil blanque 6 years ago
What a stupid post! Who wants to read about people's dumb internet rants? They aren't clever, they aren't funny, and they aren't informative...a waste of space.
Jace 6 years ago
It's incredible and sad how people get downvoted for stating facts about animals: 1. We are selective about which we eat and which we protect, purely due to arbitrary culture. 2. All animals feel pain, want to live, and have their own individual personalities). Downvoting these statements says way more about the downvoter than the comment downvoted. Also, this is a stupid article to post here. Clearly the submitter/author just has an axe to grind against vegans or PETA. Bad Bored Panda!
Susan Macfarlane 6 years ago
Ugh.. I feel like the owner's of Jimmy's were the high-school "bruh's" that gave themselves a morning pep-talk on coolness. PETA has done some s**t things but it doesn't take away from a movement that encourages non-harm and environmental sustainability. Stay classy, Jimmy's...
Claire 6 years ago
I think that they both wrong. It is wrong to eat crabs or any other animal and it is wrong for PETA to have such high kill rates. I have not backed PETA for a long time, but I am vegan and do believe that veganism is more ethical. My favorite vegan group is the AV (Anonymus for the Voiceless).
Master Markus 6 years ago
I don't think it's wrong to eat other animals. Other animals do it themselves. I think the problem is that a lot of mass farming methods are unethical.
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Miry 6 years ago
This billboard is not about Peta, it's about saving animals from a cruel death. The company's reaction, attacking Peta as an organisation, is really childish. Even if Peta does wrong things as well, that doesn't make it right that the company makes animals suffer and die. The company just wants to distract viewers/readers from the real point (that they are hurting animals) by making accusations at Peta.
Sansa Blacktyde 6 years ago
Wow. I dislike PETA as I think they are biggest bunch of hypocrits going but the person running the Jimmy's twitter account just comes off as a sad little troll.
phil blanque 6 years ago
Is this post still here? Have you seen the Chik-Fil-A signs? Funny, no? Do you see McDonalds and Buger King ranting? NO! Because they are not 10-year olds. This is not about PETA, it is about 10-year old restaurant owners, incapable of just leaving things alone. They are immature idiots. If I wanted to hear my idiot stepfather rant at my well-intentioned step-mother, I would invite them over...I would not have to go to boredpanda.
Sherwood Brock 6 years ago
These are lies about PETA. If people want to eat animals, then they should occasionally think about the process. Animal treatment is often not good and slaughter is often horrifying. And in the case of crabs and lobsters being boiled alive, cruel. PETA and Humane Society are organizations fighting for the humane treatment of living things. I don't see Jimmys winning here. I think they look like jerks for passing fake stories to compensate for the fact that they do indeed, boil living things to death. Most people don't care about that. FINE! Karma is b***h for everyone, crabs included. BP - really? This is garbage- check SNOPES next time_ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/
Nic Sheehan 6 years ago
Why is it ‘epic’ that they resorted to silly name calling in defence of killing innocent, sentient beings?
Jerome Goodwin 6 years ago
Hey PETA Science has proven plants have feelings also now what will yoi eat?
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Outdoor clothing company Patagonia and Stella McCartney have stopped buying wool from the Ovis 21 network in Argentina following a gut-churning PETA video exposé showing that lambs were exploited for “responsibly sourced” wool on “sustainable” farms. After a meeting with PETA, Kering also agreed to stop sourcing from Ovis 21 for all brands, including Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Brioni, Christopher Kane, Gucci, Volcom and Saint Laurent. Hundreds of thousands of animals were spared when the Environmental Protection Agency incorporated PETA recommendations for non-animal test methods into its endocrine disruptor testing program. Ben the bear was rescued from abhorrent conditions at a North Carolina roadside zoo and transferred to a retired-wildlife sanctuary in California after a long and hard-fought battle by PETA and others. Including Ben’s rescue, PETA saved more than 40 bears from concrete pits and dismal pens between 2012 and 2015.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Utah struck down a law that forced animal shelters to sell dogs and cats to animal laboratories on demand after PETA released its undercover investigation of laboratories at the University of Utah that experimented on animals bought from shelters. More than 110 companies, including H&M, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger, stopped selling angora rabbit wool after PETA released the first-ever exposé into the angora-wool industry. At PETA’s behest, Inditex, the world’s largest clothing retailer, donated its 20,000 remaining angora garments to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Cats like Rainbow and Mango, who had holes drilled into their skulls, metal restraint posts screwed into their heads, and steel coils implanted in their eyes, were placed into loving homes after PETA helped shut down cruel and archaic brain experiments at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
More than 250 cats and dogs were rescued from Professional Laboratory and Research Services, a North Carolina–based contract animal-testing facility, after PETA released its shocking undercover investigation. This was the second time in U.S. history that a laboratory has been forced to surrender animals and shut down following a PETA investigation. Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates all stopped using animals for emergency medical training after PETA donated lifelike human-patient simulators to them. Dozens of top advertising agencies—including McCann Erickson, BBDO, J. Walter Thompson Worldwide, DDB Worldwide, TBWA Worldwide, Leo Burnett Worldwide, and Grey Global Group—banned the use of great apes in their ads after learning from PETA that animals suffer behind the scenes.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
More than 26,000 animals were rescued from an exotic-animal dealer following a PETA investigation. It was the largest animal seizure in history. H&M became the first retailer to ban exotic skins from its stores worldwide after receiving PETA’s video exposé, which revealed extreme suffering in the exotic-animal skins trade. This paved the way for Ann Inc., PUMA, L Brands, Adidas, Overstock.com, Nike, Cole Haan, Arcadia Group, Adolfo Domínguez, and Mango to ban the sale of exotic skins as well. 2010’s Almost every major airline in the world—including Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, El Al Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Philippine Airlines, TAM Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, Vietnam Airlines, and others—stopped shipping monkeys and other primates to laboratories and laboratory suppliers following PETA campaigns. The HBO horse-racing series Luck was canceled after PETA went public with evidence obtained by whistleblowers showing that three horses had died
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Gap Inc., J.Crew, Liz Claiborne, and other major retailers agreed to stop selling leather from China and India after a heartbreaking PETA investigation of the leather industry. Hundreds of thousands of animals were saved after PETA persuaded chemical companies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to kill them in painful chemical tests. PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Burger King, Capital One, AT&T, Honda, PUMA, Keds, Pfizer, Volkswagen, and The Hershey Company pulled their commercials featuring chimpanzees and other primates following PETA’s campaign. Sixteen elephants who had been forced to perform by the Hawthorn Corporation, an elephant-rental company, were relinquished and transferred to a sanctuaryafter PETA submitted evidence of their suffering. POM Wonderful, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, and others stopped testing on animals after PETA uncovered evidence that they were funding cruel experiments.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Following PETA’s campaign, NASA pulled out of the Bion mission experiments—a joint U.S., French, and Russian program in which monkeys wearing straitjackets were to have electrodes implanted into their bodies and be launched into space. PETA closed Taiwan’s drowning tanks, which were used to kill stray and unwanted dogs. The country also passed its first-ever law against cruelty to animals. All car-crash tests on animals stopped worldwide following PETA’s campaign against General Motors‘ use of live pigs and ferrets in crash tests. Nielsen Farms puppy mill in Kansas was shut down and “permanently disqualified from being licensed” after PETA’s investigation of the facility revealed rampant sickness, abuse, and death. PETA’s campaigns have prompted fur-free assurances from more than 900 companies, including Calvin Klein, which became the first major designer to stop using fur after PETA invaded its office, and Ralph Lauren, which pulled fur from store shelves and donated its fur items
David Bethell 6 years ago
Sad to see Bored Panda taking this stance. So laughing at cruelty is your new thing now.
Kim Lorton 6 years ago
I think, that if PETA is so concerned with killing animals, start with the many millions of dogs, puppies and cats and kittens in county shelters, with high kill rate, and find them new homes! But I have en PETA intervene, illegally and take a woman’s dog, a chihuahua, off her property, and then euthanize it. So, until PETA cleans up their act and their organization, and treats all, and I mean ALL. Creatures, with the ethics they say they have, hen I’ll worry about not eating meat or seafood, and look at the vegan lifestyle. Get with it PETA , your dirty little secrets come out, as all dirty little everts do.
clu 6 years ago
I am NOT vegan, but I'm convinced that in a few generations, kids will look back at today saying how gross and barbarian we were to have animal industry and to kill animals to eat them. I can see them grimacing, and then bite into a burger with veggies and fancy laboratory meat (that will actually taste nice by then)...
Roberto Durante 6 years ago
Jimmy, nothing to do with your food, revise your history, america only came for the honor, don't gorget that the bush family financed, the nazi and if they didn't sold fuel, the nazi coulnd't fly or travel by road. Russia prevented that we in europe are not speaking german, with more than 1 million casualtys.
Chris Pitch 6 years ago
PETA wanted the docking of lambs to stop...even got P!NK involved. She was so embarrassed. Liars
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
I hate PETA and all, but this Jimmy's place are f****n' idiots. "if it wasnt for us you'd all be speaking german" looool, thanks for that you redneck
patricia mccaskill 6 years ago
Yep, comparable to pulling up carrots. You carnists..ignorance abounds. fb-cow-sla...7c6950.jpg 
Ella Adaleigh 6 years ago
F**k PETA. They are hypocritical murderers. That said none of this is "epic" or "roast"ing. This is the most mundane mayonaise bickering you can see in any online comment section.
Perry Swift 6 years ago
PETA suck, but that restaurant is responsible for killing a lot of animals. Pointing at someone else and saying "They're doing something worse" isn't justification for your own appalling actions!
Iapetos 6 years ago
Remember the crab-scuffing vogones from "A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"?
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
Nope - truly am starting to worry about my memory.
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Daria B 6 years ago
Seeing this made me kinda envy PETA workers for being able to insult their "clients". The customer service part of my job has me dealing with such absurdities, sometimes I seriously wanna troll our customers. But, of course, I'm keeping my professional kindness (sometimes, that very kindness is the act of trolling anyway).
Cactus 1549 10 months ago
Idk if y’all know this but after the peta’s lease on this billboard ran out, a popular seafood seasoning brand bought it and changed the message to this: https://blog.ironmarkusa.com/top-ad-campaigns-2018
Bela Garcia 6 years ago
I’m all for animal welfare and rights, but f**k PETA. They go about things the wrong way, and I will never support them.
Thomas Erichsen 6 years ago
Disgusting discussion and bragging about imho disgusting crustacean degustation
Sandra Bell 6 years ago
I don't like the hypocrisy of PETA and I don't like the pillaging of the oceans and the boiling to death of sea life. There seems to be enough un-evolved ignorance to go around.
I love panda's 6 years ago
It's about animals needless suffering all over the world because people still want to eat like Neanderthalers. Burn haters.
Efe Yaygel 6 years ago
Honourable intentions of PETA??? LOOOOOL. PETA is the worst. Are these people living under a rock?
Bonita Bielawski 6 years ago
I just think that both these parties are a bit extreme! Why vegan? Just don’t drain the earth of its resources! We shouldn’t consume more than what we need. I like the work Peta does towards rescuing abused animals.
Alice Jena 6 years ago
thank you; but eating animal flesh & eggs & milk is destroying the earth and all of it's resources. The pollution from animal waste; and loss of land, due to factory farming and stockyards, is immense
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Nathan Davis 6 years ago
It's funny, but only if you're familiar with Baltimore. First, if there were only one blue crab left on the planet, Baltimoreans would fight each other to the death to be the one to eat it. Second, Baltimore is tacky. So very, very tacky, and not ashamed to be so. So this is the exact response I would expect to this billboard.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
In March 2015, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that in response to growing public concern about “how the animals are treated,” its elephant performances would end by 2018. This came after decades of PETA protests against cruelty to elephants in circuses, capturing Ringling’s abuse on video, and releasing photos of the circus’s violent baby-elephant training taken by a former Ringling trainer. However, in January 2017, Ringling announced that the saddest show on Earth for wild animals would end. On Sunday, May 21, in Uniondale, New York, it held its final performance. More than three decades of PETA protests and exposés documenting that animals were beaten, left to die, and much more had reduced the circus’s attendance to the point of no return.
Pandora Fangs 6 years ago
THAT CRAB COULD HAVE GROWN UP TO CURE CANCER!! Ah hahah seriously f**k PETA.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
Ah the internet, where people go when they want to jerk off, or spout their self-righteous b******t. I don't care what you have to say, because you're probably wrong.
Thomas Turnbull 6 years ago
With PETA its a case of do what we say not what we do. They kill more animals than they save. They are now regarded as an animals rights group.
Kathleen Norvell 6 years ago
Photoshopped pic of the PETA sign with a can of Old Bay seasoning and the wording: "OK, Now I'm Meat. Old Bay makes it better!"
Jean Jenns 6 years ago
Re: PETA: PETA is not an authority on pet ownership! They are working on their OWN agenda which includes phasing out ALL pet "ownership". (This is in reference to today's article on "outside dog given a voice" which quotes PETA in a positive way....... SEE: (from the founder of PETA): “…Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.” Ingrid Newkirk – Founder, PETA ALSO: Quote from Ingrid Newberg, founder of PETA: ""One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV." Another quote: "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to
Fanli Yang 6 years ago
I can agree with part of this vision, because it's undeniable that the life of a pet is too often miserable, and it becomes downright hell for them when they get abandoned -- wild animals cannot be traumatized in that way, because their ability to fend for themselves is not taken away from them by domestication and over-sheltered life. But on the other hand I don't like neutering; I don't think we have the right to deprive animals of the capacity to pass down life, because they can never give consent. Phasing out animal breeding and pet shops is much more humane.
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Kerolos Saleib 6 years ago
I am nit a vegan and i hate this posting. But seriously...jimmy's is pathetic and sad replies are not witty or intelligent. They are pathetically worded and insulting. If you want to respond, then be decent and smart. Not belittling and immature.
Sabrina Pandoo 6 years ago
I don't think any of this was 'roasting', mostly childish name-calling with no actual facts or clever lines from anyone. Hardly epic .
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
When on airplane you wouldn't listen to lobster dude giving advice to pilot on how to steer the wheel. Then how can anyone take seriously a guy on social media guy who fries lobsters for living and is giving advice on animals interest to someone who has spent good portion of life studying, working and saving animals. There is a problem of overpopulation of dogs/cats that were discarded - and the problem is ugly - and it's caused by people like the lobster dude in the first place - and the problem needs to be addressed in some way and whatever PETA has chosen to do in this regard, I'll just leave it to them, because I trust someone who spent time working in shelters more than guy who is frying lobsters (or some random articles on internet misinterpret facts or just portray certain nit picked facts in a way to support dudes who cook lobsters, pork or steak for living).
Amina Hays 6 years ago
If only people knew how much of a disgusting, hypocritical institution PETA actually are.
Eileen OBrien-Dellerba 6 years ago
I'm really, really craving crabs now! I'll have to drive from Bowie to Jimmy's this weekend.
Zaheen Muhammad 6 years ago
Love Jimmy's and the person in charge of the twitter account. Made my day, thank you..
FlawsomeTurtle 6 years ago
Peta is horrible, PERIOD. Tbh I rather have people eating crabs then slaughtering precious kittens and puppies. I have a 10 week old kitten myself and it hurts me that someone would even try to hurt one.
Apollo 6 years ago (edited)
Peta doesn't live up to its own ideals and you can say they are hypocrites, but what this restaurant owner is doing is just sad, extremely childish and very wrong in a world that can't deny anymore that we have to act responsible in terms of sustainability. What's wrong with eating less meat? Oh, I understand now, he won't make money anymore, that's what's wrong with it. This post didn't only make panda's bored.
Diane Swartz 6 years ago
I love crab. But I don't grok why PETA asking people NOT to eat crab is any worse than restaurants asking people TO eat crab. Get over it. This is a tempest in a teacup.
Diane Swartz 6 years ago
I love crab. But why is PETA asking people NOT to eat crab, any different than restaurants asking people TO eat crab? Not sure this attack is kosher.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
Unlike the mass torture and killing of innocent animals. Not extreme at all. (S)
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I was expecting something brilliant, but instead it's some douchebag business owner making Jr High insults. I'm absolutely with PETA on this one. People have such a hate-on for PETA and those people need to do some soul searching. Their public campaigns are douchey and ineffective and they do some dumb s**t, but ya'll hate them for their wrongs much more than Shell, Nestle or any other number of companies that are way, way, way, way, way worse. That's all kinds of f****d up and says more about you than it does them.
Sanam Ahmadi 6 years ago
Dear PETA haters, your problem is that for you, the only animals worth saving are cats and dogs! While every other "useless" species can go extinct! The oceans can turn into dead zones and rain forests can disappear, but as long as we have cats and dogs what's to worry!!! PETA saves all species! Pigs, cows, orangutans, whales, sharks, lizards... There are so many other animals that need saving and some of them are on the verge of extinction! Thanks to our love for pets, the planet is overpopulated by stray cats and dogs that are being tortured or starved to death in our streets! Who can save all of them? People still buy "pure-bred" instead of adopting, they are the guilty ones by supporting puppy mills and pet stores! I don't believe PETA euthanizes animals for no reason, but if you have a problem with it, adopt those poor things and save them from PETA! Be the saviour PETA failed to be!
Master Markus 6 years ago
PETA isn't always garbage or stupid, but I think you're giving them WAY too much credit for "saving all species". There are multitudes of non-profit organizations that actually work on conservation - PETA mostly just promotes veganism and is... anti-pet in a very bizarre way?
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Virgil Blue 6 years ago
Were omnivores, check the teeth, but it is true we have been excessive with the meat part of our diets. So let's GMO us some meat plant mofos. Let's science the s**t out of it!
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
There is scant love lost between me and PETA, but every now and then they make sense. However, this puerile sniping gets boring after a few posts.
Dark Half 6 years ago
i dont know who started it, but in my opinion everyone can make a statement or state a fact with out pointing at someone or blaming someone. i guess this is where it started.
William Teach 6 years ago
I wondered how that whole thing started. Previous article I'd read failed to mention the billboard.
Rama Llama 6 years ago
Both parties were stupid, ridiculous and cringy with their "burns" and I will never get back my precious minutes that I wasted for this trash
Suzanne Enderson 2 years ago
I Love Jimmy's Seafood. I guess if you're not from Baltimore area, you might think it's childish. but us Baltimorons love JIMMY's!! Best crabcake in the country!!! and, yes, I love their posts because I am childish and petty, lol
Shiranai Chan 6 years ago (edited)
You did well, Jimmy, Peta sucks. Irony is, extreme vegans go on about how they love animals because they say, that all life is precious, at the same time, they will say:''anyone who eats meat, deserves to get cancer and die.'' So they are compassionate with animals but not with people who have different choices from them? Vegan-logic. No surprise most vegans are liberal. Same s**t. They are anti-bullying, and boast about acceptance and how tolerant they are, yet they are the worst bullies and the most intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with them. Liberal-logic. As for the English man, lol dude, England is not perfect either, especially regarding health issues.
phil blanque 6 years ago
Wa.....Wa....Wa.....Wa....So tired of this on the web. Delete the post.. Only negative. Delete the post.
Clara The Idiot 6 years ago
PETA is toxic and idk why we even still allow them to be around because of everything they've done but this tweet list was a ride and a half and I'm here for it
Bruce Sutton 6 years ago
if i could order 100kg of anything from jimmy and then have him ship it to australia .... the price wouldnt really worry me .... keep on shoving it up PETA mate .... give the bastards hell
Thomas Turnbull 6 years ago
with PETA it is always a case of Do What We Say not what we do. They seem to kill more animals than save.
cybermerlin2000 6 years ago
wonder if Jimmy's will open a restaurant in the UK... I really fancy a nice crab dinner
Michèle Gyselinck 6 years ago
I've known that PETA was a hypocritical organization for quite some time and unsubscribed to their newsletter years ago. They can go f**k themselves.
Jean Jenns 6 years ago
PETA is a death cult.....they are all about making money for themselves (through their naive, gullible followers) and KILLING ANIMALS. PETA talks a good game, but reality is much, much different. They ADVOCATE and SPEAK OUT to have every pitbull and pitbull mix in a shelter or anywhere else killed. They also want all "feral" cats killed (and most are, in fact, dumped/ lost pet cats)....they kill dogs and cats at a very high rate at the one animal shelter they own in Virginia. They are a RICH group but do nothing to help REAL animals....just a lot of propaganda.
Skunko Hilarious 6 years ago
Jimmy's, you will save the world from professionalism. Thank you for that, YOUR my hero! LOL
Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Wow! This Jimmy place is on fire! F*****g PETA sounds like an attention whore with the whole Vegan Ad! And seriously- the more I hear about these Vegan news, the more the concept starts irritating me! Stop trying to push it down everyone's throat!
Skunko Hilarious 6 years ago
Jimmy's, you will save the world from professionalism. Thanks, YOUR my hero!
Zaheen Muhammad 6 years ago (edited)
Love Jimmy's and the person in charge of the online twitter account. Made my day..
Ohio Hands 6 years ago
Does no one saying the oceans are getting "raped" by ocean harvesting realize that US fishing and crabbing is highly regulated in order to keep the population at healthy numbers? You want to pick a fight about over-fishing talk to China...
Nelson Sturdivant 6 years ago
I think I need to get a Twitter account just to follow @JimmysSeafood!
Nostalgic Hyena 6 years ago
People Euthanizing Thousands of Animals is more like it.
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
Peta sucks and if I'm ever in Baltimore I'm going out of the way to eat at this restaurant. They're hilarious and seem to share a fondness of crab cakes just like me.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
I don’t think it’s right for PETA to slaughter animals. But I don’t see how any omnivore would give a s**t what PETA does to animals. It’s hypocritical of PETA but it’s also hypocritical of omnivores to pretend like they care.
Master Markus 6 years ago
I disagree. Humans care about some animals on an emotional level. Even if it's not logical, it's not hypocritical to love a cat or dog but be fine with eating cows. They're very different animals - the former being companion animals and fellow predators, the latter being prey animals that we have raised and bred for thousands of years primarily as a food source. I feel like your thinking is lumping "other animals" into an inaccurate collective and ignoring the psychological and social reasoning behind these human feelings.
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Michael Morris 6 years ago
I'm a proud member of the other PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
Honesty Olishia 6 years ago
Made me smile, but I would feel really bad for eating horse meat, squirrel meat, or dog meat. I just don't support PETA.
Load More Replies... OreOs 6 years ago
PETA is the worst! They go around parading their vegan beliefs while disregarding and criticizing meat eaters. They stage elaborate ($$$$) campaigns that do little to really help animals. Sorry if PETA put up a billboard that might affect my business directly i would do the same.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
They should parade vegan beliefs while criticizing meat eaters. That’s the whole point. What’s wrong with that?
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BETTY 6 years ago
I can't believe all the people going off about killing crabs! Anyone one give a thoughts to the TONS of fish eaten by UK. The world would come to an end if they could not tuck in their FISH and chips! Ironic isn't it?
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
BETTY are you sure you can't think of another country that might just seem a little more into fish?? Seeing as you are so into stereotyping.
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Nicholas Walter 6 years ago
PETA should care as much about abuse of people as animals. When is the last time they fed the homeless or stood outside an abortion clinic throwing red paint on the murderers going in and out?
Roman Pintus 6 years ago
It's an anmial rights organisation, you dumb f**k. Wish your mother would have had the chance to abort you.
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Cody Benford 6 years ago
I guess my comment was deleted. Freaking spineless, crybaby, softhearted, weak, triggered liberal basement dwellers. Go to your safe zone and cry in the corner.
Rose Laufer 6 years ago
Good for you, Jimmy's! If only PETA spent their time and money actually working on educating people on pet overpopulation and how to save pets instead of harassing restaurants and trying to make people live by their beliefs they would be useful. Next time I am in the area, I'll be patronizing your establishment. I love your stand against them.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago
This is what they are doing. For example this story caused internet discussions. People are commenting on both sides. Many comments about animal industry problems. Ad like this creates these sort of intersection points of different opinions where discussion and leanings happen. It's pretty good use of money. There is more ill animals than anyone can save, so if you only working on saving them you not gonna reach anything. Campaigning for the change of things is the only way to improvement and this is what ads are.
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Trisha Dragon 6 years ago
PETA kills s**t to kill it. That's just truth. There's nothing ethical about them.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
When in plane you don't think of your self knowing better how to fly a plane than a pilot. Then why you think you know better about animal ethics than people who work with animals, who study animals, who dedicated a lot of their time to that matters.
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Random Panda 6 years ago
I hate PETA, because they kill 90% of the animals brought to them (and even stole and euthanized family pets, look it up) and churn out lie after lie to support their ridiculous claims, but I can't see how this backfired on them. Ok, Jimmy's shared one article regarding the kill rates, but other than that they pretty much made PETA's point for them with their childishness.
BlackestDawn 6 years ago
Yeah can't see much backfire, if any at all. Would have probably been beter if Jimmy's started of with that article and then went on to dismantle PETA in terms of exactly how animal friendly and hypocritical they are.
Load More Replies... Cathy 6 years ago
There is enough arguing and bickering on the internet. I love BP for the positive stories. No need to continue this negative energy here.
Bored Fox 6 years ago
Too many people still believe that PETA is a good company so anything that tells the truth about it is a positive energy.
Load More Replies... anarkzie 6 years ago
"The Way This Local Seafood Restaurant Roasted PETA" Translated local seafood restaurant act's like twats online. Really why is this a story on BP? It's not remotely witty, it's just basic online trollying, find something that some one cares about and post something that contracdicts it then wait for a respounce, or BP to feature it as a story.
Debbie Hovatter Larkins 6 years ago
PETA put up a billboard, intending to ruin this business, and the business retaliated. How are they at fault? And, by the way, WTF vegan seafood?
Load More Replies... Hans 6 years ago
How did anything backfire here but for a ridiculous "twitter debate" from both sides, which did simply express opinions and assumptions rather than containing any facts on either side? Not worth the read.
Gabriel Osorio 2 years ago
People Eating Tasty Animals: Certified nutcases for animals since 1980
Load More Replies... Kalle 6 years ago
I don't know how this roasting of PETA by this seafood restaurant is 'epic' in any way. This is childish and cringe worthy. I'm not a big fan of PETA myself but in this case I'm on their side. Also, congratulations for another anti-vegan post, BoredPanda! Let's fill our souls with hate against the people who do way more right than wrong with their life-style. Disclaimer: I'm not vegan, but posts like this slowly moves me towards it.
Aahzmandus Pervect 6 years ago
If posts like these can move you towards veganism, that says a lot about you. Where did you see anything remotely anti-vegan here? Being a restaurant that serves seafood is automatically anti-vegan? If I'm not with you, I'm against you? Yeah, that sounds about right for PETA mindset.
Load More Replies... Master Markus 6 years ago
I was expecting an actually clever shut down or at least something to show off their hypocrisy (like the article about PETA euthanizing animals) but NO they saved that for way at the end after they bickered like a bunch of 12 year olds on a playground.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
You do realize that you can buy (and cheap) any kind of article getting written? As well as buy just enough shares & likes to spread it out. There maybe was some mixture of truth, maybe one or two employees who behaved out of organization's best interest (who doesn't have problems like that hitting once and again..?) but this whole anti-peta story sounds like big bubble blown of thin air to me and very useful to those who can score some morality points without actually doing any change to the way they run their business (hey, look at me, I'm cooking pork, but at least I'm not like PETA, come leave your $ at my place). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/
Load More Replies... Barbara Gale 6 years ago
JUST SOME OF WHAT PETA HAS DONE - IGNORANCE IS JUST STUPIDITY - LEARN ABOUT THEM BEFORE YOU SPEAK SUCH HATE PETA’s first undercover investigation resulted in an end to crippling experiments on monkeys, the first-ever police raid on an animal-testing laboratory, the first animal experimentation case ever heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the first-ever prosecution and conviction of an animal experimenter on cruelty-to-animals charges. PETA exposed and shut down the U.S. Army’s plan to shoot dogs at an indoor firing range, leading the military to ban the use of dogs, cats, and primates in wound experiments and training. In an unprecedented move, PETA closed a Texas slaughterhouse operation in which 30,000 horses were trucked in and left to starve in frozen fields without shelter. 1990’s After PETA exposed the backstage beating of orangutans by Las Vegas entertainer Bobby Berosini, his wildlife permit was suspended and his show closed. Following PETA’s campaigns
Deena Salzman 6 years ago
He look...another stupid anti-vegan post on Bored Panda. I will never not comment or thumbs down. Everyone knows PETA is whacked but I just do not get the point of these posts.
DisChickenWang 6 years ago
peta has taken my grandfathers dog, which was being taken care of perfectly fine but had a minor injury that had gotten infected. We had already taken her to a vet and had the dog on antibiotics for the infection. PETA came and took my grandfathers dog away and when my grandfather went to go retrieve his beloved dog; peta had already "ended the poor things suffering" to all of you that support peta, you are supporting what happened to my grandfathers beloved Teresa
Bonita Bielawski 6 years ago
That’s ridiculous! Selfritious arseholes. How dare they decide they know better. I’m South African so I don’t understand really, but who gives them authority to do such things?
Load More Replies... Jim Mowreader 6 years ago
You know what's great about vegans? They spend a third of the day telling you and I that eating animals is this terrible, awful, horrid thing, a third of the day pretending that animals act exactly like humans, and the rest of the day trying to make vegetables taste exactly like meat.
Abby Rexroth 6 years ago
Yummy, crab! PETA is a POS group that kill more domestic animals than the animal control!
Miklos Legrady 6 years ago
PETA are the ones chasing old ladies in fur coatsto spray paint them, while they themselves wear leather shoes, leather belts, wallets, etc. They make videos of bloody animals screaming and put them on youtube among the cartoons watched by 3-5 year olds. The professional justice warrior with a huge ego doing the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong time.
C.S. 6 years ago
As soon as Peta admits to killing 10's of 1,000's of animals while hypocritically whining about animal treatment.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago
It seems that they do admit. It was decided by field professionals that euthanizing is in best interest to deal with difficult situation so I'll leave decision to them because I didn't spend my life studying and working with animals to know better. Problem is overpopulation of dogs/cats and caused by humans in the first place and there seems to be just no pretty way to fix this problem. It's too bad that organisation that stands on this difficult but required stance regarding this complicated and ugly situation gets so much bad press while someone who doesn't do a thing and continues to collect cash on from unsustainable businesses now gets extra good publicity points for bashing the "evil organisation".
Load More Replies... Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
BP should choose more carefully its contents. True, people all have different interests. Some love the art posts, other prefer the funny posts... But then, there comes that kind of posts that are boring to everyone and as if it's not enough, they are also ridiculously long. Can we just abandon this kind of posts for something better?
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Nearly 16,000 rats and mice and 600 reptiles, many of whom were dying, were seized from waste-filled cages at Global Captive Breeders, LLC, after a PETA undercover investigation led to the largest animal rescue in California history. Thanks to scientists from PETA India, PETA U.S., and PETA U.K., India made it illegal to test cosmetics on animals and to sell cosmetics that have been tested on animals elsewhere within their borders. PETA persuaded leading brands like General Mills, Kroger, Dannon, Chipotle, Nestlé, Harris Teeter, Denny’s, and Dunkin’ Brands to adopt policies that encourage their suppliers to end cruel dehorning practices, in which calves’ horn tissue is painfully burned or gouged out of their skulls. The U.S. military banned the mutilation of animals in several medical training areas following a vigorous PETA campaign.
Nostalgic Hyena 6 years ago
I can't stand PETA.. apparently eating meat/eggs/etc. is "evil" but they slaughter tons of pets for no reason and have done literally nothing to help animals like red pandas that are going seriously endangered. Talk about hypocritical!
Carlos Torron 6 years ago
I love all life. I thought for a while that an organization like PETA had answers After all the research, I'm highly disappointed. Numbers don't lie, and this particular organization gets a lot of money from donations. From people who care for life. Who don't know better. Stop the b******t PETA. We're on to you. I want crab salad now. I'll keep my kitty.
Fanli Yang 6 years ago
I understand your disappointment, but PETA does not represent the whole vegan movement. They might have been at the frontline in exposures and in the headlines for controversies, but veganism started way earlier than PETA, with endorsement by many ancient traditions, especially in the East. If you love all lives, why not treat the crab and the kitty equally? Even though the latter is cuter and more cuddle-able, the crabs has exactly the same drive to survive, and right to thrive.
Load More Replies... Curious Cat 6 years ago
America... a wack-o for a President, unaffordable health care, more people in prison than any other country... and Crab fights. Truth is , while Jimmys has every right to sell Crab, there will be a time when we'll run out. Enjoy while you can. and hey.. good luck America.
Joseph Brzezinski 6 years ago
How did you turn this post into a "trump" thing?
Load More Replies... John Louis 6 years ago
This may be the dumbest article on Boredpanda ever. I can't see how anyone "won" this childish and incomprehensible exchange.
phil blanque 6 years ago
What a stupid post! Who wants to read about people's dumb internet rants? They aren't clever, they aren't funny, and they aren't informative...a waste of space.
Jace 6 years ago
It's incredible and sad how people get downvoted for stating facts about animals: 1. We are selective about which we eat and which we protect, purely due to arbitrary culture. 2. All animals feel pain, want to live, and have their own individual personalities). Downvoting these statements says way more about the downvoter than the comment downvoted. Also, this is a stupid article to post here. Clearly the submitter/author just has an axe to grind against vegans or PETA. Bad Bored Panda!
Susan Macfarlane 6 years ago
Ugh.. I feel like the owner's of Jimmy's were the high-school "bruh's" that gave themselves a morning pep-talk on coolness. PETA has done some s**t things but it doesn't take away from a movement that encourages non-harm and environmental sustainability. Stay classy, Jimmy's...
Claire 6 years ago
I think that they both wrong. It is wrong to eat crabs or any other animal and it is wrong for PETA to have such high kill rates. I have not backed PETA for a long time, but I am vegan and do believe that veganism is more ethical. My favorite vegan group is the AV (Anonymus for the Voiceless).
Master Markus 6 years ago
I don't think it's wrong to eat other animals. Other animals do it themselves. I think the problem is that a lot of mass farming methods are unethical.
Load More Replies... Miry 6 years ago
This billboard is not about Peta, it's about saving animals from a cruel death. The company's reaction, attacking Peta as an organisation, is really childish. Even if Peta does wrong things as well, that doesn't make it right that the company makes animals suffer and die. The company just wants to distract viewers/readers from the real point (that they are hurting animals) by making accusations at Peta.
Sansa Blacktyde 6 years ago
Wow. I dislike PETA as I think they are biggest bunch of hypocrits going but the person running the Jimmy's twitter account just comes off as a sad little troll.
phil blanque 6 years ago
Is this post still here? Have you seen the Chik-Fil-A signs? Funny, no? Do you see McDonalds and Buger King ranting? NO! Because they are not 10-year olds. This is not about PETA, it is about 10-year old restaurant owners, incapable of just leaving things alone. They are immature idiots. If I wanted to hear my idiot stepfather rant at my well-intentioned step-mother, I would invite them over...I would not have to go to boredpanda.
Sherwood Brock 6 years ago
These are lies about PETA. If people want to eat animals, then they should occasionally think about the process. Animal treatment is often not good and slaughter is often horrifying. And in the case of crabs and lobsters being boiled alive, cruel. PETA and Humane Society are organizations fighting for the humane treatment of living things. I don't see Jimmys winning here. I think they look like jerks for passing fake stories to compensate for the fact that they do indeed, boil living things to death. Most people don't care about that. FINE! Karma is b***h for everyone, crabs included. BP - really? This is garbage- check SNOPES next time_ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/
Nic Sheehan 6 years ago
Why is it ‘epic’ that they resorted to silly name calling in defence of killing innocent, sentient beings?
Jerome Goodwin 6 years ago
Hey PETA Science has proven plants have feelings also now what will yoi eat?
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Outdoor clothing company Patagonia and Stella McCartney have stopped buying wool from the Ovis 21 network in Argentina following a gut-churning PETA video exposé showing that lambs were exploited for “responsibly sourced” wool on “sustainable” farms. After a meeting with PETA, Kering also agreed to stop sourcing from Ovis 21 for all brands, including Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Brioni, Christopher Kane, Gucci, Volcom and Saint Laurent. Hundreds of thousands of animals were spared when the Environmental Protection Agency incorporated PETA recommendations for non-animal test methods into its endocrine disruptor testing program. Ben the bear was rescued from abhorrent conditions at a North Carolina roadside zoo and transferred to a retired-wildlife sanctuary in California after a long and hard-fought battle by PETA and others. Including Ben’s rescue, PETA saved more than 40 bears from concrete pits and dismal pens between 2012 and 2015.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Utah struck down a law that forced animal shelters to sell dogs and cats to animal laboratories on demand after PETA released its undercover investigation of laboratories at the University of Utah that experimented on animals bought from shelters. More than 110 companies, including H&M, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger, stopped selling angora rabbit wool after PETA released the first-ever exposé into the angora-wool industry. At PETA’s behest, Inditex, the world’s largest clothing retailer, donated its 20,000 remaining angora garments to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Cats like Rainbow and Mango, who had holes drilled into their skulls, metal restraint posts screwed into their heads, and steel coils implanted in their eyes, were placed into loving homes after PETA helped shut down cruel and archaic brain experiments at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
More than 250 cats and dogs were rescued from Professional Laboratory and Research Services, a North Carolina–based contract animal-testing facility, after PETA released its shocking undercover investigation. This was the second time in U.S. history that a laboratory has been forced to surrender animals and shut down following a PETA investigation. Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates all stopped using animals for emergency medical training after PETA donated lifelike human-patient simulators to them. Dozens of top advertising agencies—including McCann Erickson, BBDO, J. Walter Thompson Worldwide, DDB Worldwide, TBWA Worldwide, Leo Burnett Worldwide, and Grey Global Group—banned the use of great apes in their ads after learning from PETA that animals suffer behind the scenes.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
More than 26,000 animals were rescued from an exotic-animal dealer following a PETA investigation. It was the largest animal seizure in history. H&M became the first retailer to ban exotic skins from its stores worldwide after receiving PETA’s video exposé, which revealed extreme suffering in the exotic-animal skins trade. This paved the way for Ann Inc., PUMA, L Brands, Adidas, Overstock.com, Nike, Cole Haan, Arcadia Group, Adolfo Domínguez, and Mango to ban the sale of exotic skins as well. 2010’s Almost every major airline in the world—including Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, El Al Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Philippine Airlines, TAM Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, Vietnam Airlines, and others—stopped shipping monkeys and other primates to laboratories and laboratory suppliers following PETA campaigns. The HBO horse-racing series Luck was canceled after PETA went public with evidence obtained by whistleblowers showing that three horses had died
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Gap Inc., J.Crew, Liz Claiborne, and other major retailers agreed to stop selling leather from China and India after a heartbreaking PETA investigation of the leather industry. Hundreds of thousands of animals were saved after PETA persuaded chemical companies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to kill them in painful chemical tests. PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Burger King, Capital One, AT&T, Honda, PUMA, Keds, Pfizer, Volkswagen, and The Hershey Company pulled their commercials featuring chimpanzees and other primates following PETA’s campaign. Sixteen elephants who had been forced to perform by the Hawthorn Corporation, an elephant-rental company, were relinquished and transferred to a sanctuaryafter PETA submitted evidence of their suffering. POM Wonderful, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, and others stopped testing on animals after PETA uncovered evidence that they were funding cruel experiments.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
Following PETA’s campaign, NASA pulled out of the Bion mission experiments—a joint U.S., French, and Russian program in which monkeys wearing straitjackets were to have electrodes implanted into their bodies and be launched into space. PETA closed Taiwan’s drowning tanks, which were used to kill stray and unwanted dogs. The country also passed its first-ever law against cruelty to animals. All car-crash tests on animals stopped worldwide following PETA’s campaign against General Motors‘ use of live pigs and ferrets in crash tests. Nielsen Farms puppy mill in Kansas was shut down and “permanently disqualified from being licensed” after PETA’s investigation of the facility revealed rampant sickness, abuse, and death. PETA’s campaigns have prompted fur-free assurances from more than 900 companies, including Calvin Klein, which became the first major designer to stop using fur after PETA invaded its office, and Ralph Lauren, which pulled fur from store shelves and donated its fur items
David Bethell 6 years ago
Sad to see Bored Panda taking this stance. So laughing at cruelty is your new thing now.
Kim Lorton 6 years ago
I think, that if PETA is so concerned with killing animals, start with the many millions of dogs, puppies and cats and kittens in county shelters, with high kill rate, and find them new homes! But I have en PETA intervene, illegally and take a woman’s dog, a chihuahua, off her property, and then euthanize it. So, until PETA cleans up their act and their organization, and treats all, and I mean ALL. Creatures, with the ethics they say they have, hen I’ll worry about not eating meat or seafood, and look at the vegan lifestyle. Get with it PETA , your dirty little secrets come out, as all dirty little everts do.
clu 6 years ago
I am NOT vegan, but I'm convinced that in a few generations, kids will look back at today saying how gross and barbarian we were to have animal industry and to kill animals to eat them. I can see them grimacing, and then bite into a burger with veggies and fancy laboratory meat (that will actually taste nice by then)...
Roberto Durante 6 years ago
Jimmy, nothing to do with your food, revise your history, america only came for the honor, don't gorget that the bush family financed, the nazi and if they didn't sold fuel, the nazi coulnd't fly or travel by road. Russia prevented that we in europe are not speaking german, with more than 1 million casualtys.
Chris Pitch 6 years ago
PETA wanted the docking of lambs to stop...even got P!NK involved. She was so embarrassed. Liars
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
I hate PETA and all, but this Jimmy's place are f****n' idiots. "if it wasnt for us you'd all be speaking german" looool, thanks for that you redneck
patricia mccaskill 6 years ago
Yep, comparable to pulling up carrots. You carnists..ignorance abounds. fb-cow-sla...7c6950.jpg
Ella Adaleigh 6 years ago
F**k PETA. They are hypocritical murderers. That said none of this is "epic" or "roast"ing. This is the most mundane mayonaise bickering you can see in any online comment section.
Perry Swift 6 years ago
PETA suck, but that restaurant is responsible for killing a lot of animals. Pointing at someone else and saying "They're doing something worse" isn't justification for your own appalling actions!
Iapetos 6 years ago
Remember the crab-scuffing vogones from "A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"?
Dilly Millandry 6 years ago
Nope - truly am starting to worry about my memory.
Load More Replies... Daria B 6 years ago
Seeing this made me kinda envy PETA workers for being able to insult their "clients". The customer service part of my job has me dealing with such absurdities, sometimes I seriously wanna troll our customers. But, of course, I'm keeping my professional kindness (sometimes, that very kindness is the act of trolling anyway).
Cactus 1549 10 months ago
Idk if y’all know this but after the peta’s lease on this billboard ran out, a popular seafood seasoning brand bought it and changed the message to this: https://blog.ironmarkusa.com/top-ad-campaigns-2018
Bela Garcia 6 years ago
I’m all for animal welfare and rights, but f**k PETA. They go about things the wrong way, and I will never support them.
Thomas Erichsen 6 years ago
Disgusting discussion and bragging about imho disgusting crustacean degustation
Sandra Bell 6 years ago
I don't like the hypocrisy of PETA and I don't like the pillaging of the oceans and the boiling to death of sea life. There seems to be enough un-evolved ignorance to go around.
I love panda's 6 years ago
It's about animals needless suffering all over the world because people still want to eat like Neanderthalers. Burn haters.
Efe Yaygel 6 years ago
Honourable intentions of PETA??? LOOOOOL. PETA is the worst. Are these people living under a rock?
Bonita Bielawski 6 years ago
I just think that both these parties are a bit extreme! Why vegan? Just don’t drain the earth of its resources! We shouldn’t consume more than what we need. I like the work Peta does towards rescuing abused animals.
Alice Jena 6 years ago
thank you; but eating animal flesh & eggs & milk is destroying the earth and all of it's resources. The pollution from animal waste; and loss of land, due to factory farming and stockyards, is immense
Load More Replies... Nathan Davis 6 years ago
It's funny, but only if you're familiar with Baltimore. First, if there were only one blue crab left on the planet, Baltimoreans would fight each other to the death to be the one to eat it. Second, Baltimore is tacky. So very, very tacky, and not ashamed to be so. So this is the exact response I would expect to this billboard.
Barbara Gale 6 years ago
In March 2015, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that in response to growing public concern about “how the animals are treated,” its elephant performances would end by 2018. This came after decades of PETA protests against cruelty to elephants in circuses, capturing Ringling’s abuse on video, and releasing photos of the circus’s violent baby-elephant training taken by a former Ringling trainer. However, in January 2017, Ringling announced that the saddest show on Earth for wild animals would end. On Sunday, May 21, in Uniondale, New York, it held its final performance. More than three decades of PETA protests and exposés documenting that animals were beaten, left to die, and much more had reduced the circus’s attendance to the point of no return.
Pandora Fangs 6 years ago
THAT CRAB COULD HAVE GROWN UP TO CURE CANCER!! Ah hahah seriously f**k PETA.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
Ah the internet, where people go when they want to jerk off, or spout their self-righteous b******t. I don't care what you have to say, because you're probably wrong.
Thomas Turnbull 6 years ago
With PETA its a case of do what we say not what we do. They kill more animals than they save. They are now regarded as an animals rights group.
Kathleen Norvell 6 years ago
Photoshopped pic of the PETA sign with a can of Old Bay seasoning and the wording: "OK, Now I'm Meat. Old Bay makes it better!"
Jean Jenns 6 years ago
Re: PETA: PETA is not an authority on pet ownership! They are working on their OWN agenda which includes phasing out ALL pet "ownership". (This is in reference to today's article on "outside dog given a voice" which quotes PETA in a positive way....... SEE: (from the founder of PETA): “…Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.” Ingrid Newkirk – Founder, PETA ALSO: Quote from Ingrid Newberg, founder of PETA: ""One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV." Another quote: "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to
Fanli Yang 6 years ago
I can agree with part of this vision, because it's undeniable that the life of a pet is too often miserable, and it becomes downright hell for them when they get abandoned -- wild animals cannot be traumatized in that way, because their ability to fend for themselves is not taken away from them by domestication and over-sheltered life. But on the other hand I don't like neutering; I don't think we have the right to deprive animals of the capacity to pass down life, because they can never give consent. Phasing out animal breeding and pet shops is much more humane.
Load More Replies... Kerolos Saleib 6 years ago
I am nit a vegan and i hate this posting. But seriously...jimmy's is pathetic and sad replies are not witty or intelligent. They are pathetically worded and insulting. If you want to respond, then be decent and smart. Not belittling and immature.
Sabrina Pandoo 6 years ago
I don't think any of this was 'roasting', mostly childish name-calling with no actual facts or clever lines from anyone. Hardly epic .
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
When on airplane you wouldn't listen to lobster dude giving advice to pilot on how to steer the wheel. Then how can anyone take seriously a guy on social media guy who fries lobsters for living and is giving advice on animals interest to someone who has spent good portion of life studying, working and saving animals. There is a problem of overpopulation of dogs/cats that were discarded - and the problem is ugly - and it's caused by people like the lobster dude in the first place - and the problem needs to be addressed in some way and whatever PETA has chosen to do in this regard, I'll just leave it to them, because I trust someone who spent time working in shelters more than guy who is frying lobsters (or some random articles on internet misinterpret facts or just portray certain nit picked facts in a way to support dudes who cook lobsters, pork or steak for living).
Amina Hays 6 years ago
If only people knew how much of a disgusting, hypocritical institution PETA actually are.
Eileen OBrien-Dellerba 6 years ago
I'm really, really craving crabs now! I'll have to drive from Bowie to Jimmy's this weekend.
Zaheen Muhammad 6 years ago
Love Jimmy's and the person in charge of the twitter account. Made my day, thank you..
FlawsomeTurtle 6 years ago
Peta is horrible, PERIOD. Tbh I rather have people eating crabs then slaughtering precious kittens and puppies. I have a 10 week old kitten myself and it hurts me that someone would even try to hurt one.
Apollo 6 years ago (edited)
Peta doesn't live up to its own ideals and you can say they are hypocrites, but what this restaurant owner is doing is just sad, extremely childish and very wrong in a world that can't deny anymore that we have to act responsible in terms of sustainability. What's wrong with eating less meat? Oh, I understand now, he won't make money anymore, that's what's wrong with it. This post didn't only make panda's bored.
Diane Swartz 6 years ago
I love crab. But I don't grok why PETA asking people NOT to eat crab is any worse than restaurants asking people TO eat crab. Get over it. This is a tempest in a teacup.
Diane Swartz 6 years ago
I love crab. But why is PETA asking people NOT to eat crab, any different than restaurants asking people TO eat crab? Not sure this attack is kosher.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
Unlike the mass torture and killing of innocent animals. Not extreme at all. (S)
Load More Replies... Full Name 6 years ago
I was expecting something brilliant, but instead it's some douchebag business owner making Jr High insults. I'm absolutely with PETA on this one. People have such a hate-on for PETA and those people need to do some soul searching. Their public campaigns are douchey and ineffective and they do some dumb s**t, but ya'll hate them for their wrongs much more than Shell, Nestle or any other number of companies that are way, way, way, way, way worse. That's all kinds of f****d up and says more about you than it does them.
Sanam Ahmadi 6 years ago
Dear PETA haters, your problem is that for you, the only animals worth saving are cats and dogs! While every other "useless" species can go extinct! The oceans can turn into dead zones and rain forests can disappear, but as long as we have cats and dogs what's to worry!!! PETA saves all species! Pigs, cows, orangutans, whales, sharks, lizards... There are so many other animals that need saving and some of them are on the verge of extinction! Thanks to our love for pets, the planet is overpopulated by stray cats and dogs that are being tortured or starved to death in our streets! Who can save all of them? People still buy "pure-bred" instead of adopting, they are the guilty ones by supporting puppy mills and pet stores! I don't believe PETA euthanizes animals for no reason, but if you have a problem with it, adopt those poor things and save them from PETA! Be the saviour PETA failed to be!
Master Markus 6 years ago
PETA isn't always garbage or stupid, but I think you're giving them WAY too much credit for "saving all species". There are multitudes of non-profit organizations that actually work on conservation - PETA mostly just promotes veganism and is... anti-pet in a very bizarre way?
Load More Replies... Virgil Blue 6 years ago
Were omnivores, check the teeth, but it is true we have been excessive with the meat part of our diets. So let's GMO us some meat plant mofos. Let's science the s**t out of it!
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
There is scant love lost between me and PETA, but every now and then they make sense. However, this puerile sniping gets boring after a few posts.
Dark Half 6 years ago
i dont know who started it, but in my opinion everyone can make a statement or state a fact with out pointing at someone or blaming someone. i guess this is where it started.
William Teach 6 years ago
I wondered how that whole thing started. Previous article I'd read failed to mention the billboard.
Rama Llama 6 years ago
Both parties were stupid, ridiculous and cringy with their "burns" and I will never get back my precious minutes that I wasted for this trash
Suzanne Enderson 2 years ago
I Love Jimmy's Seafood. I guess if you're not from Baltimore area, you might think it's childish. but us Baltimorons love JIMMY's!! Best crabcake in the country!!! and, yes, I love their posts because I am childish and petty, lol
Shiranai Chan 6 years ago (edited)
You did well, Jimmy, Peta sucks. Irony is, extreme vegans go on about how they love animals because they say, that all life is precious, at the same time, they will say:''anyone who eats meat, deserves to get cancer and die.'' So they are compassionate with animals but not with people who have different choices from them? Vegan-logic. No surprise most vegans are liberal. Same s**t. They are anti-bullying, and boast about acceptance and how tolerant they are, yet they are the worst bullies and the most intolerant towards anyone who disagrees with them. Liberal-logic. As for the English man, lol dude, England is not perfect either, especially regarding health issues.
phil blanque 6 years ago
Wa.....Wa....Wa.....Wa....So tired of this on the web. Delete the post.. Only negative. Delete the post.
Clara The Idiot 6 years ago
PETA is toxic and idk why we even still allow them to be around because of everything they've done but this tweet list was a ride and a half and I'm here for it
Bruce Sutton 6 years ago
if i could order 100kg of anything from jimmy and then have him ship it to australia .... the price wouldnt really worry me .... keep on shoving it up PETA mate .... give the bastards hell
Thomas Turnbull 6 years ago
with PETA it is always a case of Do What We Say not what we do. They seem to kill more animals than save.
cybermerlin2000 6 years ago
wonder if Jimmy's will open a restaurant in the UK... I really fancy a nice crab dinner
Michèle Gyselinck 6 years ago
I've known that PETA was a hypocritical organization for quite some time and unsubscribed to their newsletter years ago. They can go f**k themselves.
Jean Jenns 6 years ago
PETA is a death cult.....they are all about making money for themselves (through their naive, gullible followers) and KILLING ANIMALS. PETA talks a good game, but reality is much, much different. They ADVOCATE and SPEAK OUT to have every pitbull and pitbull mix in a shelter or anywhere else killed. They also want all "feral" cats killed (and most are, in fact, dumped/ lost pet cats)....they kill dogs and cats at a very high rate at the one animal shelter they own in Virginia. They are a RICH group but do nothing to help REAL animals....just a lot of propaganda.
Skunko Hilarious 6 years ago
Jimmy's, you will save the world from professionalism. Thank you for that, YOUR my hero! LOL
Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Wow! This Jimmy place is on fire! F*****g PETA sounds like an attention whore with the whole Vegan Ad! And seriously- the more I hear about these Vegan news, the more the concept starts irritating me! Stop trying to push it down everyone's throat!
Skunko Hilarious 6 years ago
Jimmy's, you will save the world from professionalism. Thanks, YOUR my hero!
Zaheen Muhammad 6 years ago (edited)
Love Jimmy's and the person in charge of the online twitter account. Made my day..
Ohio Hands 6 years ago
Does no one saying the oceans are getting "raped" by ocean harvesting realize that US fishing and crabbing is highly regulated in order to keep the population at healthy numbers? You want to pick a fight about over-fishing talk to China...
Nelson Sturdivant 6 years ago
I think I need to get a Twitter account just to follow @JimmysSeafood!
Nostalgic Hyena 6 years ago
People Euthanizing Thousands of Animals is more like it.
Load More Replies... Christina Sersif 6 years ago
Peta sucks and if I'm ever in Baltimore I'm going out of the way to eat at this restaurant. They're hilarious and seem to share a fondness of crab cakes just like me.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
I don’t think it’s right for PETA to slaughter animals. But I don’t see how any omnivore would give a s**t what PETA does to animals. It’s hypocritical of PETA but it’s also hypocritical of omnivores to pretend like they care.
Master Markus 6 years ago
I disagree. Humans care about some animals on an emotional level. Even if it's not logical, it's not hypocritical to love a cat or dog but be fine with eating cows. They're very different animals - the former being companion animals and fellow predators, the latter being prey animals that we have raised and bred for thousands of years primarily as a food source. I feel like your thinking is lumping "other animals" into an inaccurate collective and ignoring the psychological and social reasoning behind these human feelings.
Load More Replies... Michael Morris 6 years ago
I'm a proud member of the other PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
Honesty Olishia 6 years ago
Made me smile, but I would feel really bad for eating horse meat, squirrel meat, or dog meat. I just don't support PETA.
Load More Replies... OreOs 6 years ago
PETA is the worst! They go around parading their vegan beliefs while disregarding and criticizing meat eaters. They stage elaborate ($$$$) campaigns that do little to really help animals. Sorry if PETA put up a billboard that might affect my business directly i would do the same.
Meowton Mewsk 6 years ago
They should parade vegan beliefs while criticizing meat eaters. That’s the whole point. What’s wrong with that?
Load More Replies... BETTY 6 years ago
I can't believe all the people going off about killing crabs! Anyone one give a thoughts to the TONS of fish eaten by UK. The world would come to an end if they could not tuck in their FISH and chips! Ironic isn't it?
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
BETTY are you sure you can't think of another country that might just seem a little more into fish?? Seeing as you are so into stereotyping.
Load More Replies... Nicholas Walter 6 years ago
PETA should care as much about abuse of people as animals. When is the last time they fed the homeless or stood outside an abortion clinic throwing red paint on the murderers going in and out?
Roman Pintus 6 years ago
It's an anmial rights organisation, you dumb f**k. Wish your mother would have had the chance to abort you.
Load More Replies... Cody Benford 6 years ago
I guess my comment was deleted. Freaking spineless, crybaby, softhearted, weak, triggered liberal basement dwellers. Go to your safe zone and cry in the corner.
Rose Laufer 6 years ago
Good for you, Jimmy's! If only PETA spent their time and money actually working on educating people on pet overpopulation and how to save pets instead of harassing restaurants and trying to make people live by their beliefs they would be useful. Next time I am in the area, I'll be patronizing your establishment. I love your stand against them.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago
This is what they are doing. For example this story caused internet discussions. People are commenting on both sides. Many comments about animal industry problems. Ad like this creates these sort of intersection points of different opinions where discussion and leanings happen. It's pretty good use of money. There is more ill animals than anyone can save, so if you only working on saving them you not gonna reach anything. Campaigning for the change of things is the only way to improvement and this is what ads are.
Load More Replies... Trisha Dragon 6 years ago
PETA kills s**t to kill it. That's just truth. There's nothing ethical about them.
Skirmantas Jurgaitis 6 years ago (edited)
When in plane you don't think of your self knowing better how to fly a plane than a pilot. Then why you think you know better about animal ethics than people who work with animals, who study animals, who dedicated a lot of their time to that matters.
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