Now let's try lobster

Well.. Only in Japan.
But they remind me of these Chinese "hairy craps": http://shanghaiist.com/2010/11/12/watch_the_most_intense_introduction.php

They need to get a "live chinese person" vending machine and see how they like it!

Go home and tell your wife that you got "crabs" from a vending machine!

I wonder when will the "perfect woman" bending machine will be out.

I don't care if Jesus himself came down from the clouds or whatever the fuck and told me that they can't feel a thing... I'd still think it's cruel... don't get me wrong I tear through cows chickens pigs fish etc. at dinner time every day but I have a conscience.

When the crab moves his legs in the container I felt very sad. It is not just very cruel to animals it has to be unhealthy too. Good find but sad.
Can anyone translate please what they say?

that has to suck for the crabs

ive seen it all now

Admin, are there people with multiple accounts doing negative votes again?

Crabs need to be sold live, sadly, because dead crabs deteriorate quickly and there is no telling how long they have been dead. I have sold crabs for a good while and crabs movement are greatly affected by metabolism--that is, the colder they get, the less likely they are to "move". Interestingly enough, crabs cannot feel via their shells but could feel pain (by reacting to the stimulus) if their shells are penetrated or their limbs are torn. (I'm not mad enough to do this, although they do this to themselves). Their limbs also have position sensing and feedback so they could "feel" if weight or an outside force tried to move or stop their limbs/feelers.

Anyways ethically speaking, crabs cannot be handled more humanely than this and there is no point protesting for their rights. Whether their handling or harvesting is cruel or not, the only way to cook crabs is to cook them alive, anyways.

#2 Actually this is in China, but the reporter is from Japan.

If u think this is cruel.... try visiting a commercial chicken operation..... u wont eat chicken again....

Next : The "Puppies & Kittens" vending machine...

Where i'm from you can't even eat female crabs (you tell by the flap - 1:09) and here they are in avending machine. Makes all those late nights getting eaten by mosquitos and catching nothing seem like a big waste of time.

what are you gonna do with a LIVE crab? put it in your aquarium?

Holy Crab!!!
Only in China

this is just fucked up.
So they eat it alive?

perhaps... but u do need to cook alive....

those poor lil crabbies

Those poor crabs, they get dropped from so high up

now go stand there with one of those monster crabs, and when someone gets a crab from the vending machine the monster crab may be released

I was once bitten/pinched by a Crab so f*** 'em all.. death to all crabs.

I almost started crying, poor crabs. Why are people so cruel against animals

And if we all think this is cruel, imagine what the crabs went through to be put in that little container. I don't eat crabs, lobsters, and hardly any seafood, but I understand they are sold alive, and their death is coming soon anyway, but as least have some decency for their last few moments.

they have drinks in the same vending machine, crab juice anyone maybe?

So wrong on so many levels.

Well, I feel it's weird, but the way we react is strange too.

It seems that our reaction to animal treatment depends on the size of the animal, and on the "proximity" of species.

I mean : how would you react if it was worms for fishing ?
(in a box of worms, there's more live animals than in this whole vending machine).
I read an answer talking about kittens : how would you react with kittens ?
We generally don't care much about insects, a bit more about feathers, more again for mammals.

What I wonder, do crabs suffer from being out of water ?
I have to say I don't eat crabs, and I don't care about crabs, but unnecessary pain to any kind of animan food ressource is a shame, even if crabs will often end in boiling water ...

If fish were able to cry, would fishermen exists ?

# 12 Thanks man that is the best comment to this video anyone can offer... I didn't know that and as much as I feel so right about an opinion it feels great knowing I was wrong about it and gaining more knowledge over this matter...