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   SRQ
   May 23rd, 2010 - 03:59

   Those look delicious! I’ll take some butter on the side.
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   joy
   May 23rd, 2010 - 09:44

   Oooh, crabs! They look scrumptious.

   Joy
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   Kathryn
   May 24th, 2010 - 14:34

   And garlic!
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   Kathryn
   May 24th, 2010 - 14:40

   Self restraint was high in not taking one home! Poor animal, but it’s overshadowed by their deliciousness.
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   sweffling
   May 27th, 2010 - 15:35

   I hate to insert a sour note here, but crabs and lobsters have a nervous system as highly developed as cats, ie would one want to boil a cat alive? Some chefs in the Uk have tried killing these creatures before cooking by stabbing them through the brain first, but few chefs will take the facts on board, as it makes life too complicated. I love the taste of crab too, or should I say, used to love it. The old dilemma: if only chefs would just kill the creatures before cooking them I could go back to enjoying them again. Sorry, don’t wish to spoil the mood!
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   Kathryn
   May 28th, 2010 - 08:46

   Your comments and feelings are extremely valid, whether they’re of a sour tone or not. It only spurs further discussion into the things wrong with animal agriculture today. So many horror stories and news exposes on animal cruelty in poultry farming or dairy farms that is kept well hidden from the public eye…. simply gross. It’s enough to turn anybody to a vegan life! But we are carnivores, so support cruelty-free farming and humane treatment of farm animals!
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   sweffling
   May 28th, 2010 - 13:55

   Thank you and ‘well said’ that woman! I am a life time member of Compassion in World Farming: it does not try to turn us into anything else but carnivores, but merely to ensure a decent life and cruelty free death to our food creatures. I cannot bear it when I hear farmers over here refer to animals as units as if they are cabbages.

   But I don’t really have a leg to stand on at the moment with British Petroleum polluting the seas and slowly and painfully killing millions of sea creatures as well as destroying countless peoples’ livelihoods. I’m ashamed to be British.
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   Kathryn
   May 29th, 2010 - 17:00

   There’s always embarrassments in representatives for whichever country in which we live… Whether it’s a domestic company that conducts horrible misconduct (Exxon did too, and probably another company after BP will again…), or senseless violence like shootings of innocent bystanders, or financial extortion, or even feeding children nutritionless lunches in school cafeterias, it’s easy to focus on the bad happening on all our home grounds. It’s the bad stuff that makes news, and we should know about it, but there’s lots of good stuff happening around the world too. I wish there’d be more visibility on, say, the farms that ARE doing the right thing and making positive efforts to change the way we grow food, or stories about people who are making a positive difference in society. I guess horrors make for easier and more popular news!
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   sweffling
   May 30th, 2010 - 15:02

   You’re absolutely right: the good news stories take some searching out but they are there. Whenever we have some kind of celebration of the people who make a difference in our society, I am amazed at the goodness and dedication of countless people who work unheralded and unsung. But it would help so much if some publication somewhere kept us abreast of these positive contributions to balance the horror stories!

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