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Comments

Jacob Grier

Well, if you really want to know, the author of The Secret Life of Lobsters posted extensively a while ago on his weblog about the most humane way to kill them, complete with photographs. Ironically, the first step he recommends is placing them in the freezer for 15 minutes. Since they're cold-blooded, this slows down their nervous systems and metabolic activity. So while being out in the air was probably not enjoyable for the lobsters, putting them on ice was a nice touch.

Link:
http://www.secretlifeoflobsters.com/blog/2005/12/how-to-kill-lobster-dedicated-to-david.asp

Rogier

Jacob:

Thanks much for the interesting link. Turns out that that writer and blogger, Trevor Corson, lives only a stone's throw away from me, one island over. Chances are I'll run into him one of these days...

Rob

I'd care a whole bunch more if the damned things weren't evolutionary cousins to the cockroach. They're big bugs! Just tastier with drawn butter.

Noam

Connecting lobsters to insects is silly. We're evolutionary cousins with mice you know. Octopuses, highly intelligent animals, are molluscs, evolutionary cousins with claims, which while possible happy (according to a popular expression) are hardly going to win any logic competitions. People link lobsters to roaches just to soothe their consciences when boiling a fully conscious animal. If you believe that there is such a thing as animal cruelty, this is surely it.

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