>>>>>>I can happily go to a restaurant and have a steak, but I know that if they led the animal out and slaughterd it at my table, I'd be less inclined. It's probably one of the main reasons why I'm not a lobster eater. I hear how great lobster is, but having to actually choose which one will die leaves me out. By the time I looked at them all in the tank, I'd probably have given them all names and bonded with them.
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>>>>>Dip your hand in the tank and feel how they'd love to bond with you :).
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>>>>They can't do you any harm with their claws bound. Not that it wouldn't be prudent to do a quick rubber band count before sticking your hand into the tank. It isn't unusual to see a dead lobster or one with a missing limb in the tank, which tends to happen after another lobster has somehow gotten a claw free.
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>>>>My younger daughter, who loves eating lobster, is now making noise about giving it up. I had told her that they are killed instantly by boiling water, which was what I had always believed to be true. More recently I have read that they can actually survive for several minutes, especially if the water isn't at a rolling boil when they go into the pot. It didn't bother me much because I consider lobsters pretty darned unevolved and and can't get too worked up about what happens to them. Not Emily. She loves all critters and can't stand to think of even a lobster suffering. (If she were in this conversation the hunters would be getting a double earful from her about "shooting poor defenseless animals").
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>>>I'm on her side 100%. The thought of putting any critter alive into boiling water really creeps me out.
>>On a Gordon Ramsey cooking show over here he demonstrated killing it first by putting a large knife straight through its brain.
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>Well, I guess you've discovered another thing I could never do. ;)
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>Wait a sec, you mean he actually killed an animal on television? Bit much for my tender constitution, I think.
A couple of English TV chefs have done this now. Jamie Oliver decided on one of his shows that he should be involved in the whole food prep process. He was with an Italian family who hunted so he went out with them and shot and killed a boar then processed it also more controversially he helped kill a lamb with a knife.