The Way This Local Seafood Restaurant Roasted PETA After They Posted A Sign Urging People Not To Eat Crabs Is Epic
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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!
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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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.
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.
Who you gonna trust regarding animal ethics? A) animal industry B) organization that is fighting for animal well-being It's so weird that people are picking A). Is it because they got more views in common? I'm not vegan nor care that much about animal suffering, but I have enough neural connections to see how it's profitable for animal industry to fund negative press about PETA. Remember - tabaco industry did this too, selling some healthy smokes to treat your pneumonia and funding press to support their shitty bussiness.
I did look it up. Those are proven lies about them killing pets and animals. I don’t see anyone else standing up for animals the way they do. PETA has pissed off a lot of people with their exposure of the meat industry abuse and medical testing abuse and those industries spread those rumors to destroy them. You can look that up as well.
Even the article by the Huffington Post? Because I looked THAT up.
That's horsehit that got perpetuated by that jack ass Nathan Winograd or something from PETA kills animals. Thats what the Huff is sourcing. What you dont know about that source is that it is heavily funded by livestock lobby groups - look up the Center for Consumer Freedom - the group that is responsible for PETA kills animals - look up who the major financial supporters are to that "not for profit" whose sole ambition is to bring down PETA - a group responsible for more animal rights liberations and victories than any other animals rights group in history lol. Also Nathan is a former employee of PETA who got fired. Nope. No blatantly obvious conflicts of interests going on here. Seems perfectly believable to anyone not willing to look into things and simply take things at face value. Dive a little deeper next time before you condemn based on false and misleading information
Yes Holy shit!! Finally someone who can see this idiotic rumor about killing animals for what it is. It’s basically vengence for PETA exposing abuse in slaughter houses and on farms and most important trying to get legislation passed for better living conditions that would cost the meat and diary industries money.
Please provide links to your sources. I'm very interested.
PETA euthanize pets, lots of them. Reason being lack of finance or space -not disease. Any animal lover can agree this is wrong? You cant just round up animals just to kill them!!
http://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com
No it's verified truth. You keep chugging the lies if you need to though. Children need to believe in fairytales. PETA is no better than its adversaries.
oh like youre so mature, huh.
No one "brings" animals to PETA.
We can do better than this. 8015074229...bd68f.jpeg
There is enough arguing and bickering on the internet. I love BP for the positive stories. No need to continue this negative energy here.
Too many people still believe that PETA is a good company so anything that tells the truth about it is a positive energy.
Cesi Baca that still doesn't explain PETA taking animals off someone's porch and killing them... PETA sucks, face it...
http://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com
EXACTLY!
Just skip them, then. Nobody’s making you click anything. Keep scrolling.
The thing about BP is that there are many many many articles. If you only look at the featured page/trending you only get the popular ones. In other words, people have the freedom to choose what to write, what to read, and what to upvote. Just don't write, read, or upvote what you consider "negative" and be on your merry way.
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"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.
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?
They didn't do it to ruin someone's business, but to save animals. I think that billboard is totally right. Wheather you like Peta or not, this is a good action.
It is NOT "trolling" if the restaurant is telling the truth and they were.
The "truth" has little to do with anyone's opinions on an issue - especially when you do these types of mental gymnastics to try and validate those you agree with simply because you do...
Well they still did a good job at roasting PETA, and that cringey white knight called "kip" or whatever stupid name that even is, so idk what you're complaining about. :/
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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.
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.
Who you gonna trust regarding animal ethics? A) animal industry B) organization that is fighting for animal well-being It's so weird that people are picking A). Is it because they got more views in common? I'm not vegan nor care that much about animal suffering, but I have enough neural connections to see how it's profitable for animal industry to fund negative press about PETA. Remember - tabaco industry did this too, selling some healthy smokes to treat your pneumonia and funding press to support their shitty bussiness.
I did look it up. Those are proven lies about them killing pets and animals. I don’t see anyone else standing up for animals the way they do. PETA has pissed off a lot of people with their exposure of the meat industry abuse and medical testing abuse and those industries spread those rumors to destroy them. You can look that up as well.
Even the article by the Huffington Post? Because I looked THAT up.
That's horsehit that got perpetuated by that jack ass Nathan Winograd or something from PETA kills animals. Thats what the Huff is sourcing. What you dont know about that source is that it is heavily funded by livestock lobby groups - look up the Center for Consumer Freedom - the group that is responsible for PETA kills animals - look up who the major financial supporters are to that "not for profit" whose sole ambition is to bring down PETA - a group responsible for more animal rights liberations and victories than any other animals rights group in history lol. Also Nathan is a former employee of PETA who got fired. Nope. No blatantly obvious conflicts of interests going on here. Seems perfectly believable to anyone not willing to look into things and simply take things at face value. Dive a little deeper next time before you condemn based on false and misleading information
Yes Holy shit!! Finally someone who can see this idiotic rumor about killing animals for what it is. It’s basically vengence for PETA exposing abuse in slaughter houses and on farms and most important trying to get legislation passed for better living conditions that would cost the meat and diary industries money.
Please provide links to your sources. I'm very interested.
PETA euthanize pets, lots of them. Reason being lack of finance or space -not disease. Any animal lover can agree this is wrong? You cant just round up animals just to kill them!!
http://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com
No it's verified truth. You keep chugging the lies if you need to though. Children need to believe in fairytales. PETA is no better than its adversaries.
oh like youre so mature, huh.
No one "brings" animals to PETA.
We can do better than this. 8015074229...bd68f.jpeg
There is enough arguing and bickering on the internet. I love BP for the positive stories. No need to continue this negative energy here.
Too many people still believe that PETA is a good company so anything that tells the truth about it is a positive energy.
Cesi Baca that still doesn't explain PETA taking animals off someone's porch and killing them... PETA sucks, face it...
http://www.petakillsanimalsscam.com
EXACTLY!
Just skip them, then. Nobody’s making you click anything. Keep scrolling.
The thing about BP is that there are many many many articles. If you only look at the featured page/trending you only get the popular ones. In other words, people have the freedom to choose what to write, what to read, and what to upvote. Just don't write, read, or upvote what you consider "negative" and be on your merry way.
This comment has been deleted.
More stories about nudity!
+1
"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.
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?
They didn't do it to ruin someone's business, but to save animals. I think that billboard is totally right. Wheather you like Peta or not, this is a good action.
It is NOT "trolling" if the restaurant is telling the truth and they were.
The "truth" has little to do with anyone's opinions on an issue - especially when you do these types of mental gymnastics to try and validate those you agree with simply because you do...
Well they still did a good job at roasting PETA, and that cringey white knight called "kip" or whatever stupid name that even is, so idk what you're complaining about. :/
This comment has been deleted.