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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Justifications so far, I don't care if another animal may suffer alot for me to eat it because a) it's delicious or b) I'm at the top of the food chain.
Ethicists, we are not.
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It's not only that, though. The real answer is that there is no more humane way to kill a lobster than to boil or steam it. If there were, we'd probably be doing that instead, but I'm still not convinced that a boiled lobster suffers any more than a slaughtered pig or cow or chicken, so I'm really not sure what your/DFW's point is, unless it's that we should all be vegetarians. If that's where you're going with it, then it really is as simple as saying that we're at the top of the food chain. We've been eating meat for hundreds of thousands of years because that's what humans do, and I have no interest in trying to change that. (to briefly address Devil's Advocate's point, humans have not been kicking dogs for hundreds of thousands of years, and we haven't evolved to benefit from kicking dogs)
I generally do try to eat sustainable seafood, I'd never eat an endangered animal, I would try not to eat any species that I've owned as a pet (though I recognize that this is a somewhat arbitrary line to draw, and I'd make an exception in certain circumstances) and I hope that any food is killed in the most humane way possible. I don't see any of those rules as conflicting with eating a steamed lobster, though, and I certainly won't be feeling guilty while I'm doing it tomorrow.