Have to admit it I'd be the same way, couldn't do it. In a best case scenario I'd love to be a vegetarian but I love meat & seafood
shareI'm exactly the same way. I want to try to move towards at least vegetarianism but I find it difficult even though I'm SUCH an animal lover. I couldn't have put those lobsters in that water either.
shareI was really offended by Anne's comment that Jenni was way more squeamish than she thought. I'm not the least bit squeamish--but I am compassionate, therefore I would not kill a lobster, or any other animal. (I've been vegetarian, now vegan, since 1988--because I truly do love animals, and once I learned about the heinous cruelty to animals involved in the meat industry, I was done with it.) Anne's comment was offensive to me because she was TOTALLY overlooking the fact that those are living beings, NOT just another commodity, like potatoes or bananas. It was like her brain couldn't even venture past seeing lobsters as just another food source, therefore if Jenni couldn't kill them it must be because she's squeamish. Sad.
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I had the same thought! It bothered me too. It's not being "squeamish" to not want to kill an animal! That just didn't jive well with me.
sharePlants are living beings too. And lobsters have a nervous system comparable to that of insects (they are both arthropods). So if you would kill a bug or approve of insect control measures used to grow your grains and veggies, killing a lobster is not far off.
shareIn practicality, lobsters are anesthetized by placing them in the freezer before boiling. Then they don;t thrash around.
shareYet these lobsters were thrashing around and very wide awake. Was that really necessary? Couldn't they have been frozen first? I really felt Anne was bullying Jenni. Jenni had said from the start that she did not want to kill and cook lobsters, and yet Anne bullied her into it and then mocked her when she cried. Jenni's charity was an animal rescue organization for heaven'
s sake. This had nothing to do with being squeamish!
Late to the party, but you're overlooking the fact that Princess Peach is not a vegan or even a vegetarian, and has remarked countless times that she just wants the food to magically appear cooked on her plate.
She is the exact example of the kind of people that you need to be fighting against, not condoning! She has not, and will never learn, about the cruelty of the meat industry, because she is too busy doing girly squeaks and pretending that animals come from trees to actually realize the truth- that killing a lobster with one blow to the spinal cord is a lot more humane than whatever happened to the cow they served her at Outback.
The people who are intentionally oblivious and eat meat anyway are the enemy. Period. You either accept that the industry sucks, and you're harming animals, but you eat meat anyway and suck it up... Or you eliminate meat. You don't just eat all you want but have other people do the dirty work for you.