[joe fonebone]

how re-VOLTing.............. ;)

[Red Badger]

Kill it and grill it.....I don't care how you kill it......

[Atlas Sneezed]

We had a 5+lb lobster at Christmas (cooked at home). The market said that another lady had ordered 12 small lobsters for her Christmas celebration, but ours ATE two of them in the tank! (with claws banded.)

Heh-heh. It tasted even that much better.

[elc]

The lobsters will be kept in private compartments instead of being piled on top of each other in a tank, and workers will use a kind of stun gun device that zaps them with a 110-volt electric shock to spare them the agony of being boiled alive in a pot of water.

Idiots. No brain, no pain.

Roll on 10 March...lobster for my birthday!!!

[nearlyperfect]

If they've found a way to sell lobsters more humanely in Maine, why can't they do it everywhere else?

[Dallas59]

I'm so glad that someone cares for Lobsters....pass the tartar sauce please....

[Dallas59]

The ghosts of 70 billion humans from the past 4 million years...are laughing their spirit butts off right about now...

[CaptRon]

If they're dead when you buy 'em better get them home and cook the right away.

[1rudeboy]

What's wrong with giving a lobster the knife before placing it in the pot, like professional chefs do? Does Whole Foods think their employees don't know how? Why can't they learn?

[TexasCajun]

Hey! What about us Southerners!

We want to be electrocuted too!

[mysterio]

I don't have a problem with a more humane way of killing them. The boiled alive part is something that always bothered me. I find it very hard to believe that the lobster cannot feel any pain.

[Dallas59]

CLICKY HERE FOR ROCK LOBSTER!!!

[Frohickey]

Let me get this straight.

Whole Foods is against selling live lobsters because the traditional way to cook (kill) them is to put them in a pot of boiling hot water. Essentially, they are boiled alive.

Has anyone ever told Whole Foods that sea lions (nature) kills live lobsters by eating them alive?

[WinMod70]

I suppose when preparing these beasts at home one could put them in the sink full of water and chuck the toaster in, plugged in of course. Now to get around those pesky GFIs. An element of risk, for sure, but when compared to the cute as the dickens lobster's fate a few human causalities will be acceptable.

[PzLdr]

Interesting. Adolf Hitler once issued a Fuehrerbefehl detailing for German restaurants the methods by which lobsters could be killed in their preparation as food. Wanted to spare them pain. Now an organic food company follows suit. But then, Adolf was a vegetarian. Today he'd be right there with the greenies [for all the vegan weenies out there].

[-YYZ-]

The separate compartments are a good idea - not so much out of concern for these giant ocean bug's well-being, but to reduce stress on them and maintain the quality of the meat.

As far as boiling them alive goes - I've never seen anything to suggest that lobsters have enough brainpower to "suffer" in any meaningful way. Even if they do, it's surely over in a very short time.

I must admit, though, when I want a lobster now I'm more likely to buy it cooked, because it just isn't worthwhile to do it at home for one lobster.

[reagan_fanatic]

Lobsters everywhere are shocked to hear this.

[Alouette]

So it's more humane to shove an electric prod into a lobster's anus than to drop it in a pot of boiling water?

[ArrogantBustard]

These bozos have apparently never watched a Great Blue Heron eating a crab.

[showme_the_Glory]

TXU....Zotting trolls and lobsters for over 20 years.