I don't really get the dog kicking example either. I think a better comparison is the custom/belief that dog meat tastes better if it has high levels of adrenaline going when it is killed.
They don't get that adrenaline going by playing frisbee. There are, apparently, lots of methods to make it happen, many of them akin to being thrown in a pot of boiling water.
I assume everyone who says "that's the lobster's problem" or "we are the top of the food chain" or "lobster cooked that way tastes good" is perfectly fine with this. All those arguments apply to this one, far as I can tell.
I'm no vegetarian either. I'll be eating a part of a cow or a chicken for dinner, so maybe it makes he a hypocrite to say it, but boiling a sentient animal alive in a vat of water seems to be a needless cruelty when there are more humane ways to do it, and still have a lobster dinner.
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