Tech | October 30, 2010 | 14 comments

Lobster supper without the lobster suffering

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lobster-supper-without-the-lobster-suffering-21174...

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It is a dilemma faced by every discerning diner – how to reconcile the delicious taste of a freshly-cooked lobster with the barbaric manner in which the creature met its end in the chef's pot?

Now a machine designed to electrocute crabs, lobsters and other large shellfish with a single jolt of electricity could provide the solution.

The Crustastun, which was demonstrated in London yesterday at the Food Innovation Centre in Covent Garden, has been touted as the most humane way of killing edible crustaceans without prolonged suffering.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lobster-supper-without-the-lobster-suf...
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14 comments // Lobster supper without the lobster suffering

  • grandavi
  • linuxsapien
  • sbacker
  • csmonut
    • +2
      csmonut  

    • I really liked lobster, until I found out how they are cooked. I haven't eaten one in years.
      I can't help but feel really bad for the ones you see bound up in the meat dept. of a grocery store. That is not the way things are supposed to be.
      I am not a vegetarian, but I eat about 1/4 the meat I used to. I think it's all of the chemicals that are given to the animals, then more chemicals are added to the meat after it reaches the grocery store.
      Less chemicals=feel much better, thank you.

    • 2 years ago
  • linuxsapien
  • cheshiresleeves
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      cheshiresleeves  

    • This is stupid. "Good" chefs know to quickly put their knife in the top of the back to sever the nervous system. That way the lobster isn't dead but it won't feel anything.

    • 2 years ago
  • irie_ojo
  • Paratus
  • ozoneocean
  • cheshiresleeves
  • bailey78
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  

    • Are you bloody KIDDING me?!?!??! ELECTROCUTION?!?!?!??!

      There is nothing -- NOTHING -- "humane" about this!

      Besides, killing simply is not "humane" -- period.

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • EthicalVegan:

      I know you don't approve but I still like to eat meat. I will do my best to avoid the killing of anything in this manner. Just for you. Hey The Wife and I are eating less meat and are trying to go vegetarian it's been a slow go but it's still going. can you recommend. some food that is meat like to help curb my desire for meat. Boca just ain't doing it for me.

    • 2 years ago
  • s_peak
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      s_peak  
    • EthicalVegan:

      I don't eat a lot of meat... but I'd rather be stabbed in the head to be killed, rather than ripped apart by a lion, which is how animals die in the wild.

      I am not a fan of killing altogether... and boiling water is terribly inhumane... but animals die much worse deaths in the wild. Although, the way we kill cows is completely sickening and wrong. Worse than any death in the wild... is to be kept in a cage until you are torn apart by a cold machine as is done (sometimes) in halal meat preparation, among other ways. And then they call it sacred and respectful. Pfff.

    • 2 years ago
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