BALTIMORE (WTVD) -- Maryland residents have gotten their claws out in response to a new billboard campaign in Baltimore that urges people to stop eating crabs.
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals put up a billboard near the Inner Harbor that has a picture of a crab and the caption, "I'm me, not meat.
According to PETA, crabs feel pain and fear just like humans and value their own lives.
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Peta said this billboard will stay up for a couple of weeks and through the Baltimore Seafood Festival held September 15.