Do you think its cruel or okay to put a live lobster into a pot of boiling water?!
However, the most humane way to kill a lobster without ruining the meat is with a long sharp needle (something like an awl is best). Lay the lobster belly down -- ooh, I know I'm gonna get a zillion thumb-downs for this -- lay it belly down, then quickly and forcefully insert the needle underneath the section of the shell that covers its head, into the brain and stir it around. Instant death. Keep in mind, however, that there is still a thin but strong chitin film connecting the sections of the shell covering the head and the back, respectively, so you have to use some force to penetrate that, otherwise you'll inflict a lot of pain. After killing the lobster, boil it immediately.
Although this is the least painful method for the lobster, most people are too squeamish to insert a needle into anything's brain (though they don't mind when someone else does it for them), so boiling alive is the only thing left. If you go that route, there are still ways to minimize the suffering. First, make sure you use a very large volume of stiffly boiling water, so that the drop in temperature when you add the lobster will be negligeable. Second, make sure the water is at a rolling boil before you plunge the lobster. Third, plunge the lobster HEAD FIRST.
Freezing the lobster before boiling it is humane, but it will ruin the quality of the meat: ice crystals will form, breaking down the cell structure, etc. Sorry, I am an omnivore -- and if I am to kill an animal for food, I don't want to do it in a way that will ruin it.
Anticipating a barrage of hate mail, I am disabling my e-mail option for a while. Suffice it to say, anyone who enjoys lobster, but thinks putting it in boiling water or killing it with a needle is sick, has the ultimate guilt-free option -- have the store do it for you. Then pretend that lobster was always red and edible.
Answers: If you believe it is okay to eat animals, then it's okay to boil a live lobster. A lobster is a small animal, and if you use a large enough quantity of hot enough water, its death is very, very quick. Unless you are a vegetarian, there is no sense in getting outraged over the killing of lobsters -- after all, it's not like our meat and poultry are born carved and packaged.
However, the most humane way to kill a lobster without ruining the meat is with a long sharp needle (something like an awl is best). Lay the lobster belly down -- ooh, I know I'm gonna get a zillion thumb-downs for this -- lay it belly down, then quickly and forcefully insert the needle underneath the section of the shell that covers its head, into the brain and stir it around. Instant death. Keep in mind, however, that there is still a thin but strong chitin film connecting the sections of the shell covering the head and the back, respectively, so you have to use some force to penetrate that, otherwise you'll inflict a lot of pain. After killing the lobster, boil it immediately.
Although this is the least painful method for the lobster, most people are too squeamish to insert a needle into anything's brain (though they don't mind when someone else does it for them), so boiling alive is the only thing left. If you go that route, there are still ways to minimize the suffering. First, make sure you use a very large volume of stiffly boiling water, so that the drop in temperature when you add the lobster will be negligeable. Second, make sure the water is at a rolling boil before you plunge the lobster. Third, plunge the lobster HEAD FIRST.
Freezing the lobster before boiling it is humane, but it will ruin the quality of the meat: ice crystals will form, breaking down the cell structure, etc. Sorry, I am an omnivore -- and if I am to kill an animal for food, I don't want to do it in a way that will ruin it.
Anticipating a barrage of hate mail, I am disabling my e-mail option for a while. Suffice it to say, anyone who enjoys lobster, but thinks putting it in boiling water or killing it with a needle is sick, has the ultimate guilt-free option -- have the store do it for you. Then pretend that lobster was always red and edible.
well think about it. it's alive lobster and you killing.it...i wouldnt do it if i were you ..
It isn't something , I would chose to do, but who am I to tell some one else to not do it.
cruel. you can actually hear them scream.
ok with me and it's really good eating with a butter garlic sauce
If you want to eat it then that's how you cook it,
They aren't screaming. Just the sound of water/heat/steam going thru their shell. And I think it's ok. Lobster is yummie!!
Well if you eat lobster you shouldn't have a problem with it or maybe you should consider stopping. I don't eat lobster and yeah I think it's pretty cruel.
I am a vegetarian and naturally don't eat lobster, but I think the most humane way of killing it would be to refrigerate it first (in saline water that is also put in the fridge), and then take the cold living lobster and put it in the freezer, along with the saline solution.
Anything is okay, if it results in a tasty treat!!!
Actually, no. Death is instantaneous. People freeze them and they suffer the same death as any animal, slowly turning cold. Or they bash its head. Again. Look, you have to eat and sometimes it's an animal. He has to die. Might as well make it quick.
Different strokes for different folks...... I don't like lobster, so I wouldn't kill one to eat it, only in a life or death situation, like if I was stranded on an island,otherwise, why would I eat a bug off the bottom of the ocean?
As for cruelty, it could be construed as cruel..... but people do it every day in the name of eating good old lobsters..... so, whatever
no, i did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots (ron white). You cannot hear them scream, popular to contrary belief, the sound you hear is the air escaping the shell as water replaces air. If you refrigerate the lobster for about an hour, you put them to sleep. SO do that first. But then again, it is up to you...I dont care for lobster my wife loves it.
I cant do it and i wont do it, i only eat the legs and tails anyway but i cant go and pick one out and watch them do it i think it is too cruel to do, normally they say they put them in a warm water bath to put them to sleep then cook them but i wont do it...
I watched my Aunt cook them once. They do scream as your boiling them to death. It's not for me. Once when my grandson was about three he saw a lobster tank in the super market. He wanted to buy one, not to eat but to have as a pet