Posted on 02/15/2005 5:27:40 AM PST by drt1
Activists say Norwegian report slanted to favor fishing industry PORTLAND, Maine - A new study out of Norway concludes it’s unlikely lobsters feel pain, stirring up a long-simmering debate over whether Maine’s most valuable seafood suffers when it’s being cooked.
Animal activists for years have claimed that lobsters are in agony when being cooked, and that dropping one in a pot of boiling water is tantamount to torture.
The study, funded by the Norwegian government and written by a scientist at the University of Oslo, suggests lobsters and other invertebrates such as crabs, snails and worms probably don’t suffer even if lobsters do tend to thrash in boiling water....
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Remember, if you ever fall off your yacht and the EPIRB fails, the lobsters will have no qualms about eating you eventually, and providing the crabs and eels leave anything. So listen very carefully the next time you dunk those lively five-pounders in the boiling pot. You can actually hear a little scream (couple-three glasses nice dry white will help your hearing considerable), but don't let it bother you none.
Those rascally marine arthopods would do the same to you if it were they chopping the stove wood and could open a bottle. So indeed, "Send'em over, and set her out again!"
And don 't fall off your yacht.
Norwegians go all out to improve Maine maritime economy ...uff-da ping.
If a man says something in the forest where there is no woman to hear, is he still wrong?
LOL
Been to Moody's, lately?
Moody's? Outa the question. I am still recovering from my last meal at Mamma Baldacci's! And you can't get there from here.
BTW, I used to live in the big farmhouse on the hill overlooking the truckstop. It was a neat place to be a kid, plenty of room to run (this was before 'Mt. Trashmore') and the barn and house had several cellars and secret passages. There was a tunnel (we never could find the entrance) between the barn and house......lady that had lived in the neighborhood since the early 1900's said that it was a part of the underground railroad. Cool Stuff.
Steady, Billy Boy, you're talking to a Miss Kennebunk* Dump's ex-spousal unit. Say, I remember you! You're the guy that beat me to that washing machine motor I needed for my grinding wheel. As they used to say at Baldacci's Restaurant, "It's all coming back to me now." Dysarts be the last place I'd take on a charge, even if I was a battery.
*From a lot humbler town than Kennebunk. Me marrying Miss Dump was pure social climbing. When she trashed me, I was so depressed, I went to a shrink in Lewiston. She said, "As long as you're down in the dumps, can you pick me up a tire?"
Was there in my college days. Girl I recognized from HS was a part of the 'service', didn't recognize me, and tried to pick me up. Things were progressing along nicely until I asked her how her Mom was. You never saw such shock...wish that I had a camera. :-)
Is the 'Kennebunk Dump' contest sort of like the 'vacant building festival' in Machias? :-)
Probably. And then after that it's pain killers for lobsters that have the secondary effect of poisoning the omnivorous humans that dare to eat them. Peta's problem with meateaters would then be solved!
In ALL cases. How about the time they tried to sue the NJ dept of Fish and Game because some guy hit a deer with his car? Saying the NJDFG was badly managing deer populations (e.g. allowing hunting) which was causing deer to run across roads.
Answer: A toy poodle in the microwave.
(Three PETA lurkers just had strokes.)
Hurray! Now I won't feel guilty when I order my "Happy Family" Chinese take-out which is chock-full of all sorts of sea-faring critters! (Not that I did in the first place...)
I wish I could afford lobster. I'd eat it every day just to p*ss PETA off. I used to live on the beach (literally) in San Diego, CA. I've boiled alive my share of soft-shell crab, so I've done my part! ;)
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you, that you would dare to compare The Miss Kennebunk Dump Pageant with a hokey small-town festival like that Machias thing. IMHO, The 20-foot fall of tide has created strange genetic mishaps down there, and their dump certainly ain't much to look at. They got no pride at all, throwing away the most useless stuff I ever seen.
Can-you-believe-the-nerve-of this-guy?-Ping.
A Drunken street dance (no gravel pits in the town), a fuzzy navel contest(that'd be bellybutton lint, not the drink), and a parade where the local septic tank cleaner perennially rides atop his truck while carrying a fishing pole (I wont add to that imagery....).
Truly a tasteful bit of Maine lifestyle. It's fun to watch the tourists there. They're not real sure what to make of it.
But despite all this impressive pageantry, many people from away, instead of coming to Phillips, or KB to see the most beautiful women in the world, including my ex, compete for the title "Miss Kennebunk Dump," STIll prefer to drag their loutish children to Disneyland, in that bug-infested hellhole, Orlando, FL.
Go figure.
I think that it 'twould be better if Massachusetts would give Maine far more encouragement to strike out on its own. After all, the folks from away are just buying the State of Maine back, one house lot at a time.
At a much younger age, I and several of my college engineering friends explored the possibilty of dropping the Kittery Bridge into the Piscataqua. Of course, this theory was only discussed at far too late an hour, and after far too many bottles of Gritty's. It's still not too bad an idea in the abstract, though. :-)
'Course, the folks from Boston and points south are pretty well entrenched. Getting rid of the Kittery bridge might just ensure that they all can't get out. That's a point worth contemplating, as well.
Yes, and ignorance is bliss, is it not drtl? Infact this seems to be a common theme here.
Imagine yourself as a lobster, being boiled alive is probably the most agonizing pain you will ever feel in your life. Your eyes crust over and your insides burn and itch but you can do nothing. In fact, if you ever felt a quarter of such pain you would never wish it on any of your worst enemies.
Now my mind is open but I find it suspicious that this study is the only one you can find on the net, THE ONLY ONE! If everyone in the world was in agreement that no pain is felt by the crustations I would be happy to eat my words, and perhaps a few live cooked crabs.
Overlooking the fact that they MAY feel such horrible pain is, in my mind, total and utter ignorance.
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