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Lobsters' Rights

Update: This turns out to be a registration site. Sorry. Here are some excerpts:

The international animal rights lobby's campaign to mandate humane treatment of lobsters is gaining momentum in the United States and Europe...

The parliaments in England and Scotland are taking up legislation that would give lobsters, crayfish and crabs the same kind of animal welfare protection reserved for vertebrates. That would mean banning the practice of putting live lobsters in boiling pots...

Scientists at the University of Bristol in England have developed a new device for restaurants and shops called the Crustastun, which uses electric current to kill lobsters quickly. The idea is that consumers should buy the lobsters dead rather than take them home and boil them.

Europe is ahead of the United States in providing humane treatment for animals, said Bruce Friedrich, director of vegan campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

  "There is growing clamor to protect lobsters in Europe," he said. "We expect it will reach our shores very, very soon."...

In Maine, where 85 percent of the nation's lobsters are caught, fishermen view the crustacean as both an economic godsend and a lower order life form on par with the grasshopper.

Lobsters or "bugs," as fishermen call them, don't feel pain because they don't have brains, they say.

 

Comments

[Suzy Q]

MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm......Lobster! Pass the butter!

[Suzy Q]

Second!

Ok, am I the ONLY one at work today?

[Charlotte]

Nope Suzy, I got stuck here today as well. Gotta be something better to do with my time....

[Suzy Q]

Charlotte: Yeah, well I'm basically just sitting here, pretending to work and surfing the net. Oh, and blogging!

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

It takes waaaay more than "a moment" to eat a lobster, so there goes that argument!

SECOND, I'm going with the school of thought that says that lobsters don't have brains.

*zips out to look up recipe for Lobster Thermidor*

[Bassman]

Many members of various governments are worried about the idea that it is OK to throw things without brains into boiling water.

[orcel]

Bassman: That does seem a dangerous presedent as I know of plenty of politicians that I suspect do not have brains, but we cannot just go boiling them can we?

[Noob]

Live=fresh. It's that simple. I wouldn't eat crawfish that were dead before being boiled. Ewwwww.

[southerngirl]

Noob, discovering that the crawfish you've bought are already dead, which you uusally don't discover till after you break open the sack, is grounds for returning them and getting your money back, am I right? Same with crabs. Nuff said.

*drools at the thought of tossing some live crawfish into the pot*

Mmmm.

[insomniac]

I kill my lobsters 'humanely' . I put them in a sink of cold water to put them to sleep, then I throw in the toaster!

[Somewhere North]

See, this is just Britan's way of trying to keep its food bland and tasteless. And they eat intestine which is obviously not in any food group so they really should be voted off the island anyway.

[Betsy]

Insom...Nice visual! I strongly urge the Food Network to offer you a contract: "Cooking With Insomnia". You'd have to be sure to explain which types of toaster work best, of course: "Today I'm using a Westinghouse two-slot basic model. Of course, if you're serving a larger group in a more formal setting, the Cuisinart Excessif 2010 would be a better choice."

[southerngirl]

*Snork* at Insom, and at Betsy!

[insomniac]

...and the blown fuses make dining by candlelight a must!

[Noob]

Somewhere North, intestine does have its (not it's) uses in cooking. Boudin, for instance. Right Southerngirl?

Boy, I could go for some etoufee right about now.

[Jeff Meyerson]

insom: ROTFLMAO. Thanks, I needed that.

Key self-delusionary, wishful-thinking lines:

"There is growing clamor to protect lobsters in Europe," he said. "We expect it will reach our shores very, very soon."...

[Somewhere North]

Noob, intestine is intended to rid the body of food not clog up the digestive tract itself. Just think of what the intestine holds during its day job and that should be more than enough reason not to use it in cooking.

[O. J. Simpson]

Ron and Nicole didn't feel pain because they had no brains.

Signed,

The Juice

[(_i_)]

Every time I think about lobster, I can't but recall what they eat.

Nuh-uh.

[southerngirl]

OJ - ginsu.com? You're BAD!!!!

Noob, I can cook a killer (no pun intended) crawfish etoufee, but I can't handle the boudin. Probably cause I know what it's (not its) made of.

Mr. Southerngirl eats it, though.

And btw, Mr. S called this seafood place in town today to find out the price of live crawfish, cause we wanted to inhumanely boil some today. $4.00 a pound!!!! They're out of their freakin' minds! In another month or so, though.....

[Patchy the Squirrel]

Cockroaches are also arthropods. You see that this could become a dangerous line of reasoning.

[the bartman]

If only I wasn't allergic to lobster, I love pissing off animal rights wackos.

[Cheryl Howard]

Today boiled lobster, tomorrow poached eggs?

[Guin]

The Crustastun sounds like something Sponge Bob would use for personal defense.

[gagonmycock.com]

poached eggs lol

[Dr. Doug]

Lobster is a fine conveyance for butter, is it not!

[Jessica R.]

"There is growing clamor to protect lobsters in Europe," he said. "We expect it will reach our shores very, very soon."...

and when it finally gets here, we will boil it alive and eat it with butter...mmmm mmmm!

[U.O]

These idiots from PETA seem to think that their constitutional right to free speech entitles them to legislate regulations on my eating habits.

Not so, tofu-breath!

Human beings are at (or near to) the top of the food chain.

Human beings are omnivores.

FEITCTAJ!

[Mr. Completely]

If man were not meant to eat animals, they wouldn't be made of meat.

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

No brain no pain.

[Noob]

Somewhere North, I also know how the intestine is processed before being served. It's quite good (as boudin), actually. Of course, not much makes me squeamish.

My husband, OTOH, wasn't told what he was eating until after.

[KCSteve]

Here's a handy tip for registration sites:
http://www.bugmenot.com

It's a *wonderful* service that accumulates ids & passwords for such places.

Oh, and do you think I'd get busted for trying to take a Crustastun to Congress?

[Edgar Greenberg]

As as card carrying member of PETBI, People for the Ethical Treatment of Brainless Invertebrates, I lend my full support to this. In addition, I believe we must consider the feelings of other brainless invertebrates, like oysters, shrimp, crabs, scallops, and tapeworms. For too long, we have trodden the right of these gentle, sensitive animals. We must take action. I urge you all to send me send me an e-mail with your credit card number., wich I will use to right the wrongs and end this injustice, and if you want to be the second card carrying member of PETBI, go right ahead.

[RDB3of6_47]

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[Suzie Queue]

I remember hearing about a "lobster rights" organization with Mary Tyler Moore as the spokesperson. The official mascot of the group was a cartoon drawing of a red lobster. Somebody forgot to tell these bozos that lobsters turn red when they're COOKED.