ScottSA Posted June 14, 2007 Report Posted June 14, 2007 Norway's Food Safety Authority will establish a committee to examine the question of what crabs can feel during the boiling. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1836612.eceThis must be what happens when societies become so soft that they start to go crazy...meanwhile, in other news, Islamic "youths" continue to burn cars, rape women, and terrorize Norwegians... Quote
Liam Posted June 14, 2007 Report Posted June 14, 2007 I'm not an advocate of cruelly killing animals... but I love me a boiled crustacean with lots of drawn butter. I think this one falls into the "who cares?" category. *LOL Quote
ScottSA Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Posted June 14, 2007 I'm not an advocate of cruelly killing animals... but I love me a boiled crustacean with lots of drawn butter.I think this one falls into the "who cares?" category. *LOL We boiled two giant lobsters the other day. They were happy to go into the pot. I could feel the joy. Quote
scribblet Posted June 14, 2007 Report Posted June 14, 2007 I'm not giving up crab, luv the stuff, better than lobster, especially King Crab. A large grocery store had a super special on Alaskan King Crab last fall, bought a whole mess of it. yum with garlic butter Quote Hey Ho - Ontario Liberals Have to Go - Fight Wynne - save our province
ScottSA Posted June 14, 2007 Author Report Posted June 14, 2007 I'm not giving up crab, luv the stuff, better than lobster, especially King Crab. A large grocery store had a super special on Alaskan King Crab last fall, bought a whole mess of it. yum with garlic butter We don't have any Red Lobsters in BC as far as I know. Certainly none in my neck of the woods. They have the best KC legs I've ever had... Quote
myata Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 I find problem not with eating shellfish, but with that gloating impregnable assuredness that "we" are so above that miserable creature that the very idea that perhaps it could feel pain - like us, lofty ones - causes us nothing but indignant grunt accompanied by greasy munchy reflections. We've seen it somethere and not with crabs. See how easily we make transition from crabs to foreign looking youths. A thing I'd really like to see is this: the author of the OP transplanted to some alternate spacetime where those crabs achieve average size of, say to be fair, their own. I wonder if they'd still preserve that gut and presence of spirit they need to deal with it in their plate now. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
gc1765 Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 People WITH crabs feel pain... Quote Almost three thousand people died needlessly and tragically at the World Trade Center on September 11; ten thousand Africans die needlessly and tragically every single day-and have died every single day since September 11-of AIDS, TB, and malaria. We need to keep September 11 in perspective, especially because the ten thousand daily deaths are preventable. - Jeffrey Sachs (from his book "The End of Poverty")
ScottSA Posted June 15, 2007 Author Report Posted June 15, 2007 I find problem not with eating shellfish, but with that gloating impregnable assuredness that "we" are so above that miserable creature that the very idea that perhaps it could feel pain - like us, lofty ones - causes us nothing but indignant grunt accompanied by greasy munchy reflections. We've seen it somethere and not with crabs. See how easily we make transition from crabs to foreign looking youths. A thing I'd really like to see is this: the author of the OP transplanted to some alternate spacetime where those crabs achieve average size of, say to be fair, their own. I wonder if they'd still preserve that gut and presence of spirit they need to deal with it in their plate now. Exactly what is your argument? That we treat foreign looking crabs like youths? That if crabs were big and we were small, they would eat us and then we'd be sorry? Can you narrow the argument down a bit...maybe scrap the alternative universe, and, you know, maybe the youths? Quote
myata Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 ... and, you know, maybe the youths? Why would I do that? It's you who mentioned it, in the same context with the crabs. In the way that's reminiscent of something very nasty ... Hitlerjugend maybe? Anyways, about crabs - They were happy to go into the pot. I could feel the joy. the point is, do you have to gloat while boiling it alive? What if they do actually feel pain when boiled? Or are you an expert in that subject area as well? Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
ScottSA Posted June 15, 2007 Author Report Posted June 15, 2007 ... and, you know, maybe the youths? Why would I do that? It's you who mentioned it, in the same context with the crabs. In the way that's reminiscent of something very nasty ... Hitlerjugend maybe? Anyways, about crabs - They were happy to go into the pot. I could feel the joy. the point is, do you have to gloat while boiling it alive? What if they do actually feel pain when boiled? Or are you an expert in that subject area as well? No, you're right. I see the light. They haunt my dreams. Their cries populate my waking hours. I have sinned. What do you propose I do...put on a hair shirt and self-flagellate while dumping them in a pot of water? Be more kind and gentle by putting them in a cool pot of water and slowly and kindly heating it to the boiling point? We're talking about crabs here. Go lie down on the beach and die and see what they do to you. Eating them is a safety measure. Quote
myata Posted June 15, 2007 Report Posted June 15, 2007 What do you propose I do... maybe, seeing a doctor? (If that's your casual attitude to primitive lifeforms) Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
ScottSA Posted June 15, 2007 Author Report Posted June 15, 2007 What do you propose I do... maybe, seeing a doctor? (If that's your casual attitude to primitive lifeforms) I'm not sure I'm the one who needs to see a doctor. We're talking about crabs here. Food. Quote
myata Posted June 16, 2007 Report Posted June 16, 2007 If you want my 2c, I'd be a bit concerned about that cruelty aspect. You know, taking pleasure in their suffering and death (as opposed to e.g. your satisfaction and life): They were happy to go into the pot. I could feel the joy. Nothing to be alarmed about, but a check wouldn't hurt. Quote If it's you or them, the truth is equidistant
ScottSA Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Posted June 16, 2007 If you want my 2c, I'd be a bit concerned about that cruelty aspect. You know, taking pleasure in their suffering and death (as opposed to e.g. your satisfaction and life):They were happy to go into the pot. I could feel the joy. Nothing to be alarmed about, but a check wouldn't hurt. Ok, thanks. Quote
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