/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10486041
it's not horrifying to them. to them it's normal. to them, fresh vegetables and people who talk at a normal speed and street signs with words in other languages are horrifying.

>>10082976
What reason would I have to want to understand, other than as some self-indulgent thought experiment?

>>9817918
>unpleasant
>unenjoyable
Those are subjective descriptions based on what it's like to be a human. It's reasonable to assume that monkeys and cats don't enjoy having their limbs cut off because they're pretty similar to humans. A lobster doesn't even have lungs. Suppose those gills are kidna like lungs though. You think nothing of taking a lobster out of a tank and keeping it in a plastic bag on the way home from the store. So it's slowly "drowning" for like an hour, right? I mean, it's all analogies, right? So why would dropping a lobster in boiling water suddenly be a terrible experience compared to that? You make this elaborate ritual of driving a knife through its bug brain to spare it the agony of being killed in a few seconds, does that even make sense?

Why can't people just accept that the lobster execution rituals are basically just a weird cultural ritual we do to make ourselves seem noble and enlightened?

It probably tastes different for whales than it would for us, unless we were whales of course