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Swiss say you can't put live lobsters in boiling water any more
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<blockquote data-quote="Bestoutwest" data-source="post: 1477654" data-attributes="member: 19397"><p>David Foster Wallace once went to the Maine Lobster Festival and made some interesting observations surrounding the culture of eating lobster. It's been a couple years and several books ago, but the biggest takeaway I had was that we, society, give names to animals we feel are more intelligent, but still eat, such as pork for pig, beef for cattle, etc, and leave "stupid" animals named as they are. For that reason, Americans will never get to know what it's like to have Filet O Fido, or Horse Hamburger, which I find very interesting.</p><p></p><p>Here's the essay if you'd like to read it:</p><p><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>For the record I don't eat seafood, I find the taste off-putting. If you need to drown something in butter to eat it, you might as well just eat straight butter. I couldn't care less if you throw them in the pot "still alive."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bestoutwest, post: 1477654, member: 19397"] David Foster Wallace once went to the Maine Lobster Festival and made some interesting observations surrounding the culture of eating lobster. It's been a couple years and several books ago, but the biggest takeaway I had was that we, society, give names to animals we feel are more intelligent, but still eat, such as pork for pig, beef for cattle, etc, and leave "stupid" animals named as they are. For that reason, Americans will never get to know what it's like to have Filet O Fido, or Horse Hamburger, which I find very interesting. Here's the essay if you'd like to read it: [url=http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf]http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf[/url] For the record I don't eat seafood, I find the taste off-putting. If you need to drown something in butter to eat it, you might as well just eat straight butter. I couldn't care less if you throw them in the pot "still alive." [/QUOTE]
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