I recently reported that Whole Foods had decided to discontinue the sale of live lobsters on "humane" grounds. It seems the general public isn't to be trusted to "humanely" kill a lobster. Proving the theory that you can find everything on the Internet (Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, it was really Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Library of Babel"), I have recently discovered Trevor Corson's Lobster Blog. A recent post: How to Kill a Lobster, Redux reveals how Whole Foods intends to kill the crustaceans it will sell for its processed lobster meat. Not surprisingly, it appears to be potentially more profitable. It also involves some food processing technology from the military which provides a nice data point for my belief that best ideas are infinitely transmutable. In the Information Age, ideas are the alchemist's treasure.
If you read the blog entry, be sure to read comment #1 where my anonymous hero of the day comments
.... In any case, I lose patience very quickly with all this "humane killing" [malarky]. All you need to do is watch animals eat each other in the wild to see how it's supposed to be done!
P.S. This Lobster Blog post about how Anthony Bourdain feels about killing lobsters is also a must read!
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