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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