Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this?

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?

dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?

Why do you care how other people care how people kill and eat it?

dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?

I don't anymore after reading your post. carry on

It's quite easy. And in case you forgot, boiling humans has been quite popular through the ages, but did anybody cry for them.

This does remind me of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay that Gourmet magazine commissioned him to write about a lobster festival. Gourmet paid him to hype the event. Instead, Wallace eviscerates the practice of boiling lobster in his own inimitable style. I would have love to have been a fly on a wall when the editor saw the finished piece and said, 'what is this sh*t'!

Anyway, it's classic and a great read. It's a pity the author is gone. Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.

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

Come on guys...Consider the lobster!

Yatha Sidrha wrote:

Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.

Good luck...seriously. It's a toughy

You can halve it and grill it on BBQ with some flavored butter. Yummy! Great pre-race meal!

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water

Yatha Sidrha wrote:

It's quite easy. And in case you forgot, boiling humans has been quite popular through the ages, but did anybody cry for them.

This does remind me of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay that Gourmet magazine commissioned him to write about a lobster festival. Gourmet paid him to hype the event. Instead, Wallace eviscerates the practice of boiling lobster in his own inimitable style. I would have love to have been a fly on a wall when the editor saw the finished piece and said, 'what is this sh*t'!

Anyway, it's classic and a great read. It's a pity the author is gone. Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.

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

Thanks for the link. This essay is brilliant (although maybe a tad long)

'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare

"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."

As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose

Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.

When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,

And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark;

But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,

His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,

How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie:

The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,

While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.

When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,

Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon;

While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,

And concluded the banquet by ---

--- EATING THE OWL?!?!?!

That's horrible and inhumane!!!!!

It is illegal to boil lobsters in some places like Reggio Emilia, Italy

dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?

rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water

You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?

It's illegal to eat Parmesan cheese in Maine.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?

+1

Mr. Obvious wrote:

rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water

You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?

Just a guess, but I'd guess he thinks it is OK no matter how you do it and that this whole thread is just plain silly.

Insects of the Seas.

Any animal that you eat gets killed at some point. What's the difference? I used to have a lot of trouble letting the fish I caught suffocate. Boiling seems pretty humane compared to that.

Mr. Obvious wrote:

rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water

You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?

It consented. If the lobster didn't want to be eaten, it wouldn't have been so tasty. It deserved to be eaten walking around that deliciously.