Crab vending

[minimorecambe]

http://theweek.com/article/index/208655/chinas-live-crab-vending-machines

In my eyes that is just wrong :(

[timwilky]

I do not see the problem.

When I worked at Shajiao (About 50 miles up the Perl river from Hong Kong) I was a regular visitor at the meat market. Most small stuff being sold fresh had its fur or feathers. some even barked and purred.


I did work in Taiwan with Koreans civil engineers, they had a pet dog called sandwich just to wind up the guilos. When you go into a seafood restaurant, you pick your grupa from the tank. that way you look for what you think is healthy. Although we did discover cholera once traced to a fish tank.

it is a different place, a different culture and different standards, if you do not like it. don't go to China.

[allantheboss]

^^^Exactly

[allantheboss]

However, I don't see many people wanting to snack on a live crab on the middle of a busy errand...

[timwilky]

When I was working in Taiwan, the bar we used near to our digs in Hualien had a couple of big concrete tanks just outside the toilets filled with massive shrimps. One of my colleagues would usually grab a couple on the way back from the loo.

He would spend a couple of minutes playing with them letting them crawl up his arms, on the table then snap their heads off rip off the shell and eat them raw. Again so long as you are happy they are clean (as in not going to kill you) nothing wrong with fresh protein. Not much different to the crabs.

Then again it depends what sort of crabs. Some you just do not want.

[beabert]

Hope they bring out a chicken one.

[DarrenSV650S]

Nearly as bad as posting ferrets

[minimorecambe]

Nearly as bad as posting ferrets

:smt083:smt083:smt083:smt083

[Ed]

Hey, who'd pay to get crabs:lol:

Most French supermarkets have a tank on the fish counter where you can select your crab. I always feel sorry for the poor things, knowing what fate awaits them:(

[Specialone]

In China and similar, There is enough food though, they dont need to eat fooking everything that has a heartbeat.
Barbaric imo, with no value on any animals life, left to them this world would find a huge number of animals extinct.
Id rather eat my own sh1te than go there and witness it.

[james160987]

im confused, you surly just cant get the grab out of the vending machine and go yummy and take a bite can you,

With the shrimp mentioned fiar enough, its soft, well softer than a crab anyway,

im pretty sure if you go to take a bite it will use that lovely claw to take one of its own?

[tonyk]

Hey, who'd pay to get crabs:lol:

:(
No, you pay for something else, and get the crabs for free.....:smt053

[beabert]

In China and similar, There is enough food though, they dont need to eat fooking everything that has a heartbeat.
Barbaric imo, with no value on any animals life, left to them this world would find a huge number of animals extinct.
Id rather eat my own sh1te than go there and witness it.


yes Mr Pilkington lol.

[benji106]

I get why you would buy live crabs etc. at a market, but you are not going to start munching on fresh crab on the way to work surely? I guess you could buy one on the way home and cook it up when you got there but I think I would rather just stop at a shop on the way home. Imagine the chaos on the trains withing 15 minutes of this being introduced in the UK when someone buys a load of them and sets them free on the train.

[Ed]

No, you pay for something else, and get the crabs for free.....:smt053

:lol:

[kaivalagi]

I question where the vending machine is but not the practice, it's no different from the way crabs are rubber banded when in fish markets really...and having a crab alive means it won't go off until it dies which I think would be quite some time after from being put in that vending machine

If I was a vegetarian I might have a different view point but as I eat all things meat I can't really complain about animal cruelty really like this as I help sustain it...

[yorkie_chris]

In China and similar, There is enough food though, they dont need to eat fooking everything that has a heartbeat.
Barbaric imo, with no value on any animals life, left to them this world would find a huge number of animals extinct.
Id rather eat my own sh1te than go there and witness it.

+1
(ish)

Eat what they want with regards common stuff when they're actually eating it as a foodstuff... but it's barbaric killing rare stuff just to show how big your wanger isn't. Uncultured savages.

[sv4me]

Speaking of showing off the size of your wang

Mines bigger (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/its-phallus-in-wonderland-with-a-reproduction-theme/2008/05/16/1210765170864.html)

I have a couple of chinese mates and went over to HK with them a couple of years back. Stunned was the word. Verrrrrry different culture out there, I saw some freaky ****! :o But hey thats there society. If the chinese took over and I was an animal, i'd be ****ting myself

[Specialone]

+1
(ish)

Eat what they want with regards common stuff when they're actually eating it as a foodstuff... but it's barbaric killing rare stuff just to show how big your wanger isn't. Uncultured savages.

Chris, you must be mellowing ;), i expected you and a few others to disagree with my opinion on this, im genuinely suprised :)

[xXBADGERXx]

When you go into a seafood restaurant, you pick your grupa from the tank. that way you look for what you think is healthy. Although we did discover cholera once traced to a fish tank.

One of my colleagues would usually grab a couple on the way back from the loo.

And people wonder why the tanks had Cholera in them :smt040

Cholera can live in Humans where it thrives and mulitplies to spread and it also lives in Salt Water Nematodes in coastal areas

[Reeder]

Speaking of showing off the size of your wang

Mines bigger (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/its-phallus-in-wonderland-with-a-reproduction-theme/2008/05/16/1210765170864.html)

I have a couple of chinese mates and went over to HK with them a couple of years back. Stunned was the word. Verrrrrry different culture out there, I saw some freaky ****! :o But hey thats there society. If the chinese took over and I was an animal, i'd be ****ting myself

Ew that dude is touching a wang

[sv4me]

If its any consolation, neither of them seem to be enjoying it