Shipping lobsters

@LovingIt (5396)
United States
December 26, 2006 4:45pm CST
Do you think the process of catching, packaging live lobsters and transporting them by air to markets around the world is cruel and inhumane treatment that traumatizes the lobster?
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• United States
26 Dec 06
No. What's cruel is boiling them alive.
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@frosthon (2249)
• Singapore
27 Dec 06
I think it is cruel too, but human need to survive on food, that's life.
@Melizzy (1381)
• United States
26 Dec 06
No more cruel than listening to their claws scrap the side of the kettle as they are being boiled alive. They aren't naturally red. They are red from being boiled. It is suggested that you stick them in the freezer for a bit before boiling them as it will "paralyze" them and it is supposed to be less painful. Whatever.
@LovingIt (5396)
• United States
27 Dec 06
I buy mine frozen. I was just reading where a place that used to sell live lobsters has quit selling them because they believe shipping them alive is inhume, so decided to see what MyLoters thought of the issue.
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@rainbow (6761)
28 Dec 06
It's not nice for the lobster, I don't eat them. Humans are very crueland we should be ashamed.
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• United States
28 Dec 06
probably but there are still delicious
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• Singapore
27 Dec 06
Well,I like eating lobsters so i don't really think so.
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@bimmer999 (1159)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
i think its the same as shipping aquarium fishes worldwide it stresses the lobster or fish but i dont think its cruel in any way. like they said, when the lobster is being boiled then thats cruel.. poor lobster..
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@pookie92 (1714)
• United States
27 Dec 06
I think it is totally inhumane. I knew a lobster that once got airsick during the shipping process. Do you think they offered him any dramamine? Heck no! Did they clean up the mess in his packing container? HECK no. All the other lobsters made fun of him because he was sick. He was smelly, and I gotta tell ya, he was in therapy afterwards for a long time. :) (silly answer for a silly question??? maybe............)
• United States
15 Jan 07
Ugh. Probably but it's sooooooo goooood. At least I can't afford to eat it very often.
@catjane (1036)
• United States
9 Feb 07
No, Anyway you can get those delicious things to me is good! They have to be kept alive, so how else would you ship them? Lobsters were put on this earth to be eaten and I doubt they have the capacity to be traumatized lol.