Customers craving fresh crustaceans will have to look beyond Whole Foods Market Inc. after the natural-foods grocery chain decided Thursday to stop selling live lobsters and crabs on the grounds that it's inhumane.
Lobsters, folks, are not human. The only thing inhumane about the sale of live lobsters at Whole Foods is the insane price markup. At the local Giant Eagle, I can get fresh seafood at a reasonable price, handled more professionally, a lot more often.
Whole Foods management decided to immediately stop selling live lobsters and soft-shell crabs, saying they could not ensure the creatures are treated with respect and compassion.
Ummm...what about all the other fish and animals? Maybe they could sell them and folks would agree not to chew them too hard?
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
I don't want to be insensitive, though. I mean, we all have to come to terms with the fact that humans are at the top of the food chain. Most of us do so when we're 4-5 years old. Others do so - or at least begin the process - after opening hundreds of stores nationwide all equipped for the sale of fish and animals.
King Crimson wrote:anytime you have a smoke tunnel and it's not Judas Priest in the mid 80's....watch out.
reminding me of when my younger daughter
was going throuogh her "vegetarian phase"--
she wouldn't even eat shrimp !
I'd tell her that they are nothing but "bugs" that
live in the ocean--to no avail.
Then one time I was visiting her in Buffalo and
took her out for dinner--she orders chicken !!
End of vegetarian phase !!
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For you NEast guys, what is the market price for Lobster when you go and buy it at the store or when you order it while at dinner? My dad's family is from Maine and every summer we used to go down to the coast and buy 1 & 1/2 pounders for $6-8 bucks a pop. I wasnt sure due to the proximity to Maine, if you guys got a sweeter deal then we do down here in FL?
Do they really scream when you throw 'em into the boiling water? That would kind of freak me out and make me feel guilty. If I had to slaughter my own food, I'd probably weigh about a buck fifteen.
Anyway, fuck a place that sells shit that's already been whacked, but doesn't want to sell shit that won't get iced until after it leaves the store. I don't even get that.
UnWAR we'll only sell it if it's been murdered before being trucked to our store.
ElvisMonster wrote:Anyway, fuck a place that sells shit that's already been whacked, but doesn't want to sell shit that won't get iced until after it leaves the store. I don't even get that.
UnWAR we'll only sell it if it's been murdered before being trucked to our store.
Their point is that the method of your food's death is especially nasty. Maybe the octopus Whole Foods sells is kindly euthanized as opposed to boiled alive. With that in mind, they shouldn't sell kosher meat. Like a goddamned abattoir.
ElvisMonster wrote:Do they really scream when you throw 'em into the boiling water? That would kind of freak me out and make me feel guilty. If I had to slaughter my own food, I'd probably weigh about a buck fifteen.
Anyway, fuck a place that sells shit that's already been whacked, but doesn't want to sell shit that won't get iced until after it leaves the store. I don't even get that.
UnWAR we'll only sell it if it's been murdered before being trucked to our store.
Yes they do scream! It's the absolute best part...... :twisted:
Cicero-----In restaurants you pay more, but I can get lobsters from local fish markets for like 4 bucks a pound. Even cheaper is when you get em right off the boat. Used to have them pull right up to the side of our boat and get like 6 for 15 bucks. 1 1/2 to 2 pounders at least. Any bigger and the meat is tough....
Bizzarofelice wrote:Their point is that the method of your food's death is especially nasty. Maybe the octopus Whole Foods sells is kindly euthanized as opposed to boiled alive. With that in mind, they shouldn't sell kosher meat. Like a goddamned abattoir.
I certainly hope they don't sell beef of any kind. When a cow gets done up, it sho' 'nuff ain't verah pertty.
So what you're saying is that Whole Foods thinks that it's death for no reason and death for no reason is murder?
I certainly hope they don't sell beef of any kind. When a cow gets done up, it sho' 'nuff ain't verah pertty.
Linklater of Slackers fame is doing a movie based upon the book "Fast Food Nation". Along with comments on immigrants and the history of fast food, there's some pretty vivd descriptions of the killing floor in that book. Movie comes out in the Fall.
Koshering is where the animal is hung up and has its throat slit to quickly and cleanly empty the blood. The image is a little bit gruesome, but there's too many Jews in the Brentwood area for Whole Foods to not offer it.
Cicero wrote:For you NEast guys, what is the market price for Lobster when you go and buy it at the store or when you order it while at dinner? My dad's family is from Maine and every summer we used to go down to the coast and buy 1 & 1/2 pounders for $6-8 bucks a pop. I wasnt sure due to the proximity to Maine, if you guys got a sweeter deal then we do down here in FL?
I've never paid over five dollars a pound. Not that there aren't places around that will charge up to eight. I always buy from lobster pounds. Either from Seawell at the Stonington town docks or from Ford's in Noank. Been going to Ford's as long as I can remember. It helps to know people there to get a decent price, too. 90% of the time, I buy culls, which are lobsters that have lost at least one claw. The tail meat is all you want, anyway. A lot of the time, I'll get culls for under three dollars a pound. Usually around $4 is the norm for them. When chix and selects get to the $4 range, I might be persueded to buy.
See now I am a claw fan. The tails are good too, but I love those big claws. Ever been to this place?.....
i used to get my seafodd right off the boats(port canaveral) huge fucking fresh shrimp and fish, etc. we would save 4-5$ a pound on shrimp n shit. thats truely the place to get fresh seafood, right off the boat.
i love the word inhumane on sea bearing creatures. What next, no killling the fire ants?
