What does this mean in practice? By this definition, surely normal farm animals are sentient, but they are eaten, experimented on and frightfully frequently abused, so... what’s the change?
Seriously, you cannot see the difference between a person who delivers a single killing blow and then eats the animal and one who watches it boil to death over 20m or so?
"Getting joy from inflicting pain" is very different to "killing for food".
If you buy a live lobster, how are you going to practically kill it before boiling it? Try to penetrate the hard shell to impale the brain using a layperson's skills and equipment and risk slicing off a digit?
Maybe another good reason to...not eat them as much.
I'm from Maryland where watermen in the Chesapeake watershed have been crabbing for generations. The cost of fishing licences and proactive regulatory restrictions have also contributed to the sustainability of the fishery here.
As Marylander's most of us have grown up eating crabs from a young age.
When you prepare crabs you must cook them fresh, because dead crustacea release a chemical which immediately turns the meat. It also the easiest and most effective way to know you are eating safe crabs and not diseased or unhealthy crabs.
Please stop projecting your morals on to us. Militant vegetarianism is no different than religious fundamentalism. Your are projecting your morals onto the rest of us. Please stop.
After all humans who are indifferent to inflicting pain are considered just as psychotic as those who get joy from it :-/
What about crabs I wonder? IIUC coup de grace js fairly straightforward for a lobster but not so for a crab.
I'm not any kind of animal rights activist, but it makes me feel upset just thinking about it :shudder:
The latter is not a task I expect many home cooks to be good at.
They key is to have the water at a rolling boil and have enough volume that it doesn't cool when you add a 2 lb lobster head first.
I suspect a lot of the horror stories are from people who added lobster to a pot with too little water.