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Joe’s Stone Crab to Feel Pinch Over Live Dismemberment
A PETA supporter painted as a stone crab could make diners at Joe’s Stone Crab lose their appetite tomorrow as she writhes atop a “dinner plate” outside the restaurant, surrounded by protesters armed with a banner reading, “It’s a Rip-Off! I Feel Pain, and I Need My Claws!” The protest follows PETA’s release of new video footage that shows workers tearing the limbs off live crabs for Joe’s supplier and tossing the mutilated animals back into the ocean to suffer and die a prolonged death.
When: Thursday, April 14, 12 noon
Where: Joe’s Stone Crab, 11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach
“Crabs need their claws to feed and defend themselves, yet they’re being torn apart—limb by limb—and tossed overboard to their deaths,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on anyone disturbed by this violence to leave animals in peace and off their plates.”
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) requires that claws be torn off live stone crabs—which causes agonizing pain and would otherwise be illegal under the state’s cruelty-to-animals law—so PETA, the largest animal rights organization in the world, is now challenging the requirement with a formal rule-making petition to ban this conduct. PETA’s attorneys are making the case that the FWC allows Florida’s $30 million annual stone crab claw industry to operate in an illegal manner.
The group also filed a criminal complaint with the FWC regarding workers on the vessel that supplied Keys Fisheries—the largest seller of stone crab claws in the state. PETA’s footage shows workers slamming a shark against the boat and appearing to carve out chunks of the animal’s flesh, tearing the mantles—which house the hearts and other organs—off live octopuses, and tearing live lobsters’ tails off before tossing the animals, still alive, back into the water—all actions that experts concur cause pain.
Broadcast-quality video footage is available for download here, and photographs are available here.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—notes that many faux-fish options are available today, such as Sophie’s Kitchen’s Plant-Based Crab Cakes, Gardein’s F’sh Filets, Plant-Based Tuna from Good Catch, and New Wave Foods’ new Plant-Based Shrimp.
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Kikkoman Pulls Animal-Testing Funding Ffrom UW-Madison
After hearing from PETA, Kikkoman—the world’s largest Japanese-style soy sauce manufacturing company and a sponsor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute—told the institute to stop using its funding for tests on animals and instead to allocate the company’s donations to educational programs, special meetings, and administrative expenses only. Kikkoman, which has donated at least $1 million to the university, ended its own animal experiments in 2015 after talks with PETA.
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VIDEO: Dolphin Attacks Trainer at Miami Seaquarium in Shocking Footage
Footage of a dolphin attacking a trainer during a show at the Miami Seaquarium was posted to TikTok over the weekend, leaving viewers horrified by what marine abusement parks desperately try to conceal from the public.
@scphoto_ky A dolphin trainer was just attacked by Flipper. Police just arrived.
#dolphinattack #miami #seaquarium
The Miami Seaquarium released a statement claiming that the incident shown in the video above was a result of the trainer “accidentally [scratching] the dolphin,” who reacted by “breaking away from the routine.” But Dr. Jenna Wallace, a former Miami Seaquarium veterinarian, begs to differ: “There’s no accidental collision. This is aggression.” Wallace also said that previous veterinarians and staff had told her that this dolphin had “rammed another trainer in the abdomen.” (Sound familiar?)
As long as our fellow animals are stuck in these desolate conditions, incidents like this will continue to happen.
The attack made headlines, but it shouldn’t be shocking that dolphins and other animals confined in marine parks—which imprison them in small concrete tanks and force them to interact with humans—could inevitably act out of frustration or in defense. What’s really shocking is the fact that marine parks like the Miami Seaquarium condemn these animals to a life of suffering and miserable confinement in the first place.
This event is just one of many reasons why our fellow animals don’t belong at the Miami Seaquarium.
Just recently, three animals died—including Catalina the dolphin (the third dolphin to die of apparent trauma sustained at the Miami Seaquarium since 2019 ), a harbor seal named Coral who died of a chronic infection, and a manatee who died from starvation. A previous U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report revealed that the Miami Seaquarium repeatedly ignored its own veterinarian’s instructions, housed dolphins in pools containing injuriously high levels of chlorine and parasites, housed incompatible animals together, leading to injuries and the death of two dolphins, and more. These serious violations sparked an ongoing full-blown USDA investigation into the crummy facility.
The attack on a Miami Seaquarium trainer proves, yet again, what PETA has said all along: Our fellow animals don’t belong there.
PETA uncovered a new @USDA inspection report citing the Seaquarium for acting AGAINST veterinarians’ instructions when it:
reduced Lolita’s food intake
— PETA (@peta) September 30, 2021
Help Animals Still Trapped at the Miami Seaquarium
Bottlenose dolphins spend time with their families, swim vast distances, and explore new territories in their natural habitats, where they can live for a minimum of 40 years . At least 100 dolphins have died at the Miami Seaquarium, many short of their natural life expectancy. In just over a year between 2019 and 2020, six animals died at the facility, including two bottlenose dolphins who died from trauma-related causes and a bottlenose dolphin who drowned after becoming caught in a net. These intelligent, social animals deserve better—and you can help them.
Please join PETA in asking the Miami-Dade state attorney to investigate the Miami Seaquarium for cruelty to animals:
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