hello friends, today i need your opinion in animal welfare, many of us love non-vegetarian food even some people depends totally in non vegetarian food in short many of us needs it for taste or livelihood.
i dont have any problem with non-vegetarians but my question is regarding boiling of lobsters alive.
It is unthinkable that we would be sold a live chicken or lamb to kill at home. Why do some people think of lobsters differently? “They look so different to us, they dwell in completely different environments to us which lobbies for the humane treatment of crustaceans. “With their hard shells and peculiar appearance, it can seem that perhaps they don’t feel pain; they look quite tough. But I think that, more and more, people are recognising that it’s not how an animal looks, it’s the scientific evidence of their sentience.” It is time, says the campaign group, to change our attitude to lobsters and other decapod crustaceans, such as crabs, that are treated in a similar way – limbs pulled off, often sold live, sometimes boiled alive.
Is there a best way to kill a lobster? “I know some people like to put them in the freezer [before cooking them in boiling water],” says Steneck. “I’m not sure that’s a great way to go.” Elwood says that, if he were running a restaurant, “I would have [a device] that gave them electrical stunning, which completely destroys the central nervous system in a microsecond”. At home, as a biologist familiar with lobster anatomy, he would know where to stick a knife in at the back of one’s head before splitting it in two, destroying the brain and the nervous system. “That should take someone a second if they know what they’re doing,” he says. The average person “might end up doing more harm than good, by stabbing the animal in various places before it’s killed”. Putting ethics aside for a moment, there is nothing like a bit of inept murderousness to put you off your dinner.
Guys the thing revolve around me is how is the feeling when someone boils us alive, definitely it pains even we cant think of this to ourselves so why lobsters.
so, my questions to all my steemian friends is whether is it right to boil lobsters alive or not?
waiting for your opinions.