Who exactly is it inhuman to? I think the actual answer is it made some of the uber-crunchy customers squeamish. So let me get this right … it's OK to sell meat, pork, fowl and fish (and probably lobsters) that are killed off premises but not something that's alive when it gets to the store? I think you should have to see the slaughter of all your food before you consume it. Great quote:
You know your company has too much money when…
June 19, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Oh, it definitely makes me squeamish and I’m generally considered to be crunchy. But my opposition to lobster consumption is the fact that people boil them alive. Seems like a pretty awful death to me. Though I’ve read accounts from factory farms that indicate that few slaughters are 100% humane, so I’m with you on this.
Also, I agree that anyone who consumes critters ought to see the process between live animal and dinner plate. If they can’t bear it, they shouldn’t be allowed to eat it.
(I’m a vegetarian; can you tell?)
June 19, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I think the only creature who gets to make the call on the humaneness of the method of slaughter is the one being killed. I’m a fishamatarian, which means mostly veggie but also fish. I don’t eat lobster because I actually don’t like the taste, not the method of its demise.