Fresh Direct Responds: “Fresher when Cooked Alive”
The News
On Monday, TheirTurn reported that the online grocery giant Fresh Direct, which serves the NYC metropolitan area, is making home deliveries of live lobsters, and we suggested that people ask the company to stop. In response to my email asking them to deliver frozen lobsters in order to reduce the amount of time they suffer, Fresh Direct wrote:
“I can definitely understand your concern. We do not send them frozen, as lobsters are considered fresher when cooked alive. The meat tends to be tougher when eaten any other way.”
Your Turn
Is avoiding “tougher meat” an acceptable justification for prolonging a lobster’s suffering through live transport before boiling him or her alive? How can anyone think any of this is okay? Novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Is it possible that future generations will regard our present eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero’s entertainments or Mengele’s experiments?” Of course they will. If you haven’t already, please do yourself, the planet and the animals a favor: go veg.
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