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[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The whole boiling alive thing always put me off. Torturing a creature to death for a morsel of food never seemed quite right to me.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Common practice nowadays is to kill it just before cooking with a quick knife blow to the noggin

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ll play devil’s advocate. I think a lobster suffers less in 20 seconds (or whatever) of boiling than a pig being raised for a few weeks.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago

You're probably not wrong, but a pig does at least provide more than a few mouthfuls of food.

Not that I condone the suffering.