Surf and Turf electrofied.
Whole Foods Market’s recent decision to end selling live lobsters - inhumane, they claim! - has caused many a PC eater to examine our relationship not only with crustaceans, but also chicken breasts, ground round, salmon, cauliflower, carrots, even fiddlehead ferns.
It’s time to ask the difficult questions. Do lobsters really cry? Do oysters have bivalve souls and briny screams? Is it best to electrocute our deep sea friends rather than boil the living daylights out of them?
These questions, posed Sunday in an exhaustive expose by The New York Times, I asked yesterday to local experts.
Do lobsters cry? “I cry for them,” said Michael Schlow, chef/owner of Radius, Via Matta and Great Bay. “I shed a tear every time.”
Do oysters scream briny screams? “I’ve never heard an oyster scream,” says Legal Sea Food’s owner Roger Berkowitz. “Maybe a sigh.”
Should we all go buy the latest contraption designed for sensitive types trying to treat every rung on the food chain like the family dog? The makers of CrustaStun surely think so. CrustaStun looks like a waffle iron. In fact it’s a crustacean ol’ sparky that delivers “the required duration of electric current to produce instant anesthesia and kill within 5 seconds (lobsters) and ten seconds (crabs),” reports CrustaStun.com. It manages this without, happily, strapping in any lobster claws or sticking any aluminum foil caps on lobsters’ heads.
Link: CrustaStun - the World's first humane electronic crustacean stunner.
Link: BostonHerald.com - Herald Columnists: Lobster laments boil down to pure claptrap.
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