Please Read the Blog post by Diana Adams Before You Vote-
How To: Kill A Lobster In A Humane Way
I know I’m probably going to get some crazy comments on this article, but this is a topic that has strangely become important to me. I love to eat meat and until very recently I could never ever imagine being a vegetarian.
Aside from chicken wings, one of my favorite things to eat is lobster. As you know, in order for lobster to be yummy, you have to buy them when they are alive and then kill them during the cooking process.
I always place the lobsters in the kitchen sink while I boil the water. I see their big eyeballs staring at me, and sometimes my son will give them names, which makes this whole situation worse. Every time I drop them in the boiling water I cry for a moment because I see them flap around, until they are suddenly still, and dead. I took the picture above as I watched them cook.
I am an animal lover. All the meat I eat comes from an animal that has lost his life so I can consume him. Am I a hypocrite for feeling this way and also eating meat? Probably. I realize we are at the top of the food chain, but isn’t there a moral obligation to lessen the pain for the animals we kill? After all, we are supposed to be of a higher consciousness, right?
Click the link above to read the rest of her blog post about how she now kills her lobsters a certain way before eating them to make her feel better about it in her mind.
I personally think that killing a lobster is killing a lobster just as killing a cow is killing a cow and unless you are consciously malicious in your mind when doing so than it’s all semantics and that we’re meat eaters- get over it. But I do appreciate that in the end she’s gonna eat that goddamn lobster!
I’m gonna eat that lobster, I’m gonna eat that burger and I don’t really care how it gets to my plate as long as it’s tasty.
Oh and BTW I don’t believe that by electrocuting them by way of Crustastun or putting them in the freezer and then slicing them open with a knife is any more or less humane than boiling or steaming them. I think these other methods are more about making people like Diane fell less guilty. If that’s what it takes go for it.
Here are other posts I’ve written about the cruelty to lobsters debate
Good Morning Gloucester 
So much for mindfulness…
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Make sure you thank the animal (or plant) you eat. Lobster, cow, pig, chicken, etc. Be mindful of the life it’s lived and how it died. Do what you can (and you can probably do more than you think) and I think it’s fine to love and eat animals.
If you haven’t seen Food, Inc. yet, you should give it a look.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response. 🙂
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Here is a good video on meat: http://meat.org
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I votes for hypocrite. It’s a very loaded word but hypocrisy is part of the human condition and is not always a bad thing as it allows us to walk a line between two unattainable or undesirable extremes.
On the case in point the question you need to ask, is not am a hypocrite but why am I eating the animal? Make a list of the reason to eat that animal and the reasons not to (and make them realistic).
Ultimately you will come down to “it tastes nice” against the suffering of the beast in question. Maybe that suffices but if you were to experience another using such a moral balance on any other choice such a stealing, environmental destruction, rape, etc you would assume that individual was mentally ill, especially if they professed the opposite value, such as love before hand.
The science predicts and confirms other creatures will suffer as we do – and the only meaningful difference between us and them is that they can not articulate to us their fear and pain.
I expect the double think here is in the use of the word “love” which we allow to mean many things at the same time, such as “I love you” and “I love to torture you”.
It is interesting to note that the scariest films concern us being eaten.
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Nobody loves lobster out there like I do. I can gaurantee you that. I just about worship them. My place is loaded with lobsters, lobsterboats and pictures of lobsterboats. Now as I said I just about worship them but I eat them and yes I boil them. Am I a hyprocrite? I went out hauling with a friend, a lobstermen from Maine, and let me tell you, when I watched all the work that was involved I vowed to always eat lobsta after seeing all the work he went through to get those beauties. Do I feel guilty. NO!!!! That is why I believe that any video that shows what a lobsterman goes through to get his catch is a great idea. Or better still, go out on a lobstering tour.
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It’s ‘yes’ without a doubt for me and this coming from, until recently, a meat eater. The reality hit me after watching http://www.earthlings.com.
Whether it’s a propaganda film as claimed by others, the point is animals suffer and feel pain, while we mindlessly and callously butcher them to death. I’m no fan of vegetables and hardly ate any, but knowing the reality of the daily life of farm animals and understanding now what they go through because of us humans, it’s surprisingly easy to transition from a meat lover to a genuine animal lover.
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