Ekern angered animal activists with his description of preparing crabs on the beach while his children were watching. He described throwing the crabs into hot oil after bashing them on a cutting board, a process that didn't kill all of them.
The article also outlined how to boil crabs, and included recipes.
"Showing how to boil living crabs is encouraging law-breaking. Crabs are also covered by the Animal Protection Act, and animals shall not be exposed to pain," NOAH leader Siri Martinsen told Journalisten.no.
"It is highly probable that crabs have the ability to feel pain. We know too little about it and the animals should get the benefit of the doubt," she said.
Meanwhile, in other Norwegian food news -
NORWAY, which allegedly conducts the world's largest overtly commercial whale hunt, has described Australia, New Zealand, the US and others fiercely opposed to commercial whaling as hypocrites.
The anti-whaling lobby, it said, were bent on destroying the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a 75-member body aimed at regulating whaling as well as in charge of conservation of the large creatures.
For years, anti-commercial whaling nations notably Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the US have been actively lobbying against Japan, Norway and Iceland in their bid to lift a two-decade old moratorium on commercial whaling.
Sorry, but I think I have more sympathy for the whales than crabs.
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