Be kind to lobsters (then eat 'um)

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1153489.html

Best part:

The animal rights group PETA bought two of the lobster devices and paid for Mr. Buckhaven and his wife to fly to the Arizona event last Saturday to demonstrate the technology.

Unfortunately, the courier service lost the two machines and the animal rights people had to look the other way as volunteers killed hundreds of lobster in boiling water for hungry supporters of the resource centre.

In yo face, PETA! 

Boiling them is cruel but electrocuting them is not?    Does this $35K device also work on Dungies? 

This reminds me of something funny.  Being from Rhode Island orginally, I recently got the chance to go back home.  As I was getting ready to come back I stopped in the Rhode Island tourist shop at the PVD Airport.  I looked around and nothing really caught my eye till I saw this T-shirt.  It had a lobster on it with a sign in one claw and it said "Say no to Pot!" the little dude was leaning on a cooking pot.  I luaghed like a fool in the middle of the store.  I got one in GF's size, as she lived in RI for 12 years.  We both got a good laugh out of that one.

I always steam mine

Nothing wrong with splitting them and tossing them on the grill.  Take a good hot papper and cut both ends and pour the hot melted butter through the center of it into your meat dipping container.  As Andy Griffin used to say em, emmmm!

Good grief, what's next - tasered asparagus?




this person who wrote this is awesome.

I admit, I feel bad for chucking them alive in boiling water.  I just take my pointy knife or ice pick and spike them through the back of the head.  I don't know if it makes them feel any better, but it makes me feel better, which is really what this is all about.  I also find after a few drinks (in me), I feel less pain about chucking them in boiling water.

Anyway, my cost for my Lobster/Crab Execution Device:  well, whatever an ice pick costs (or a few drinks), which is a lot less than 3500 bucks.

Do you know the writer David Foster Wallace?  

Gourmet magazine commissioned him to write a travel/food piece about the Maine Lobster Festival, and instead got a personal, enormous, agonized exploration of the science and ethics of boiling delicious lobsters alive. Bwa ha ha ha.

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster