The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, gave mankind dominion over the beasts of the field and creatures of the deep (including lobsters). Of course that doesn’t change the fact that we have nightmares (more often than we’d like to admit, in fact) about giant crustaceans rising up out of the sea and destroying the human race.
What … you people don’t have those nightmares?
Seriously, we boil lobsters alive and then we eat them. You don’t think they’re going to exact a terrible revenge on us?
Anyway, we were forwarded this Lobster-related story from the UK Daily Mail by one of our best commenters, who no doubt expected us to fly into one of our typical tirades against the politically-correct madness of the Bizarro world in which we are currently living.
From the article:
Entrepreneur Simon Buckhaven, 50, has created a device named the CrustaStun which uses an electric current to stun and painlessly kill shellfish such as lobsters, crabs and langoustines.
The machine can knock a large crustacean unconscious in less than 0.3 seconds and kill it in five to ten. Crabs take four to five minutes to die in boiling water, while lobsters take three minutes.
Some believe the noise made by lobsters in the pan is evidence of them experiencing pain, although others insist it is caused by the release of gases under the shell. The lobster’s tail also flaps around as it tries to escape and it dies only when its core temperature reaches 34C.
Nifty … in fact, we’re all for spending trillions of government dollars on some ginormous “CrustaStuns.” Make ‘em as big as airplane hangars.
We’re gonna need ‘em …
Hat-tip – Liberty For Me (sorry we let’cha down on this one, man!)
By Old Bike Dude November 23, 2009 at 8:09 am
My lobster cried,”don’t tase me bro”.
By Liberty For Me November 23, 2009 at 8:39 am
Lobsters are insects….So why are we not outraged by roach motels?? or worse, rat poison??..How do think they useually meet their demise?? By being eaten ALIVE in the ocean….This is so stupid
By Pat Hendrix November 23, 2009 at 9:04 am
This post needs to go back to the shop for some work.
By SnakeMD November 25, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I never met a shrimp I didn’t like. I am outraged by roach motels. The Patels run most of them. And rat poison is disgusting. Rats actually bleed to death, internally, after eating rodenticide. They should die a sudden death in an old fashioned rat-trap by breaking their necks, or meet their demise being shredded by Jack Russell terriers. Rats are actually lap-dogs of the devil.
By r0y January 11, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Liberty For Me fails taxonomy forever.