I promise to shroud it beautifully in my champagne/butter reduction, and give it a dignified burial, in my stomach.
All of God's creatures ahve a place in this world. On a plate next to the fries and the corn on the cob.
lol, wonder if you boiled them in holy water it would qualify as compassion?
Whole Foods would probably charge $50 a pound for lobster anyway.
This is IDIOTIC.
OY. Do you know how much dead chopped up animal they are selling in that store, fresh, frozen, and otherwise? They'll just kill the lobsters sooner and sell them frozen or on ice.
"...stop selling live lobsters and crabs on the grounds that it's inhumane."
Oh Lord save us.
Yes.... so much more humane to just boil them before selling them.
sigh.
Whole Foods is so expensive that I banned them after walking through the store once.
Poop. Respect must be earned and their compassion is misplaced. Boobs.
Wow. I had no idea those dozens of crabs we caught last weekend were treated "inhumanely" due to the bumpy boat ride they had to endure to get back to our house and their appointment with the boiling water pot.
That's too funny.
"Help me, HELP ME, I'm DRYING UP. WATER!!! W-A-T-E-R ! ! ! ! ! "
If someone's worried about putting them in a pot of boiling water take a little piece of paper towel, soak it in vodka (or whatever) and put it over it's face. It "falls out" in about 3 seconds.
"The ways that lobsters are treated would warrant felony cruelty to animals charges if they were dogs or cats," said Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
If you find yourself getting out of your car to help turtles and ducks cross the street, get back in your car and start volunteering your time to some PEOPLE that need help like sick or parentless kids.
The kooks who are stopping lobsters from living in an aerated fish tank are the same ones who say they would swerve to kill a baby in order to avoid hitting a snake (PETA's president, I believe?)
I guess that I should stop driving here in South Georgia, since I kill many bugs with my car when I drive?
Oh, good grief-here the PETA loonies go with the fishy feelings again. I've only been to the Whole Foods in SA once, and at those prices, I couldn't afford to shop there for lobster or anything else even if it was not nearly 40 miles away from where I live.
We used to go crabbing at the coast in the summers when my daughter was a child. When she was little, she would get upset when she saw and heard the crabs scrabbling around in the infamous pot, and not want to eat them. So my husband and I devised a method whereby we carried them home in ice chests full of icy, cold water (makes them go to sleep), put them on a steam rack in the pot over the water, sprinkled with crab boil powder, covered the pot, and voila-they don't wake up and scrabble around. I don't know if it is any more humane than dropping them into boiling water, but the child was not upset any more and would eat the crabs-and I like the way steamed tastes better than boiled, too. But I suppose that the Whole Food idiots would think that anesthetizing the crabs or lobsters with cold water and ice before cooking them alive was a form of cruelty as well...
The only use for Whole Foods is when you need something you *know* a commie-lib store would have - like aromatherapy candles or tofu.
I live in Massachusetts, and anyone who would pay Whole Food's prices on lobster has to be nuts. They are consistently at $13.00/ lb, even when every other market in driving distance is charging $8 or $9.
I'm guessing live lobsters are a loser for them, and this is a nice touchy feely way of dropping them from the seafood category.
I buy a lot at Whole Foods, but I would never buy one of their live lobsters. What am I, a schmuck on wheels?