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TIL In 2018, a restaurant in Maine started sedating their lobsters with
marijuana smoke, saying it gave them a humane death.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45586131
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|u/sourkroutamen - 13 hours
|
|I've been pretty high before, but never "didn't notice I'm in boiling
|water" high.


  |u/Kaijupants - 12 hours
  |
  |Just gotta try RSO, maaaan. You'll be stoned for daaaayz. Or like,
  |until your skin comes off at least. Lmao


  |u/Alive_Marsupial7311 - 10 hours
  |
  |The only thing worse than being boiled to death would be being boiled
  |to death while (weed)high. 


    |u/Sparrow2go - 5 hours
    |
    |“Yeah but have you ever boiled to death, awwun weeeeeed?”


  |u/starktor - 11 hours
  |
  |That’s what we call [being Chicken Joe
  |high](https://youtu.be/dcYgBU4t98E?t=206&si=HGiu3V92xIrdNxUb)


  |u/ThrowbackPie - 4 hours
  |
  |Neither have lobsters. They feel pain plenty.


  |u/CAXHIBRUH - 5 hours
  |
  |You don’t weigh 1.5lbs


  |u/Bellrung - 9 hours
  |
  |I mean that’s pretty much what’s happened to everyone who’s died in a
  |hot tub.  Weed high is likely a stretch there though


    |u/gmishaolem - 8 hours
    |
    |> I mean that’s pretty much what’s happened to everyone who’s died
    |in a hot tub.  You think hot tubs are at boiling temperature?


|u/picado - 14 hours
|
|So some stoned kitchen staff blew smoke in the lobsters faces? I'd
|assume that's common restaurant procedure.


  |u/OldeFortran77 - 14 hours
  |
  |"for the lobsters, man."


    |u/tonycomputerguy - 13 hours
    |
    |"Have you ever killed a lobster.... on weeeed?"


      |u/onemanmelee - 11 hours
      |
      |Wait... am I killing the lobster while *I'm* on weed, or am I
      |killing a lobster who himself is on weed?  Or... *both*?


        |u/BOBBY_VIKING_ - 10 hours
        |
        |Hotbox the kitchen. Problem solved.


      |u/LoveRBS - 13 hours
      |
      |"Sweet knife man, is that one of those san-   saan-   saya-
      |those Japanese knives?  Woah Lil close there buddy.  Hey why you
      |holding me man?"


        |u/Curious_Mix_321 - 12 hours
        |
        |Lmao thats great


      |u/jameskchou - 10 hours
      |
      |Jon Stewart needs to say it


      |u/BigUptokes - 6 hours
      |
      |*RED TEAM GO! RED TEAM GO!*


    |u/CourierColeman - 12 hours
    |
    |Said in Tommy Chong’s voice


    |u/anynamesleft - 7 hours
    |
    |🤣🤣🤣   I read that in Keanu's young voice


  |u/SunnyAlwaysDaze - 11 hours
  |
  |Do lobsters even have cannabinoid receptors?   ETA well I'll be
  |Scrooged, they do. At least according to this CBD org that does
  |endocannabinoid research.


  |u/barontaint - 13 hours
  |
  |It's a key step in most kitchen methods, it's like the scientific
  |method but involves more drugs and dick jokes and butter.


  |u/MoseShrute_DowChem - 8 hours
  |
  |On my first day at a nice seafood restaurant i smoked with one of the
  |chefs and then he took me to the kitchen and made me watch him cut a
  |live lobster in half with a kitchen knife… still scarred


    |u/SaintJamesy - 6 hours
    |
    |I mean that's pretty much the humane way to slaughter them, you
    |kinda just chop off their head.


      |u/MoseShrute_DowChem - 3 hours
      |
      |Damn that’s kinda comforting I honestly thought that it was
      |needlessly cruel and that that dude was a psycho lol


        |u/SaintJamesy - 29 minutes
        |
        |I mean, it might not be 100% the best way to do it people are
        |still studying that I just read. But it seems good enough for a
        |kitchen. I'm sure that lobster don't even know what hit him.
        |Like getting hit by a bus.   My sister in law worked at a zoo
        |for a while, and they had to kill a metric fuck ton of butterfly
        |larvae. More than they could conceivably freeze. They settled on
        |squishing them, figured it was like getting hit by a train, over
        |before they knew what happened.   Heck since I'm telling other
        |people's stories, before that she worked at an aquatic and they
        |senior person says hey we hafta go kill this fish.  Well how you
        |want me to do that she asks? He says go find a rock. This guy's
        |like a proper scientist too lol.


  |u/snakercakes - 8 hours
  |
  |More common would be give it cocaine.  Could you imagine a lobster on
  |coke.


    |u/TheLowlyPheasant - 6 hours
    |
    |Hello, Tubi?


  |u/GoodLeftUndone - 13 hours
  |
  |So all of the kitchen staff?


  |u/Atheist_Redditor - 6 hours
  |
  |Well that's actually standard practice for baked lobsters.


|u/Stairwayunicorn - 14 hours
|
|translation, they were cooked in bong water


  |u/angryaxolotls - 13 hours
  |
  |Hey man, sometimes you run out of sage


    |u/Khaldara - 12 hours
    |
    |Puff, Puff, Pass Away


      |u/angryaxolotls - 10 hours
      |
      |Imagine waking up in Heaven and Bob Marley is there to greet you
      |like "Good mornin' sister!" haha


      |u/CuriousTsukihime - 10 hours
      |
      |Kiss, kiss, fall in love 🌸


  |u/Puffen0 - 12 hours
  |
  |🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮


  |u/Phantom120198 - 10 hours
  |
  |Boiling bong water, I struggle to imagine a worse smell


  |u/stuffeh - 11 hours
  |
  |For the record...Any half way decent chef knows THC isn't water
  |soluble. It's only alcohol and oil soluble which is why you can buy
  |weed infused butter/vodka, but no juice.  Edit: everyone who's replied
  |gave lipophilic solutions (emulsifing oil, energy drinks using
  |alcohol, ethanol, butanediol, etc, and syrups using glycerin which is
  |oil) and doesn't changed the fact the it's damn near impossible for
  |the THC to get absorbed into the lobster's blood which is hemolymph.


    |u/axonxorz - 11 hours
    |
    |> which is why you can buy weed infused butter/vodka, but no juice.
    |Not so at all, that's what emulsifiers are for, it's how we get
    |infused sodas, etc


      |u/Turbulent-Trust207 - 11 hours
      |
      |I was gonna say you can buy weed energy drinks and alcohol


        |u/stuffeh - 10 hours
        |
        |Vodka is a type of alcohol and I disregarded any alcoholic
        |methods b/c it'll definitely hurt the lobsters.   So let's
        |assume you don't know it'll cause pain, you still have the issue
        |where the thc is lipophilic and lobster's blood is hemolymph and
        |doesn't readily absorb thc.  The weed energy drinks I am aware
        |of have some sort of "diol" (alcohol, ethanol, butanediol, etc)
        |to "store" the THC which doesn't change the physics of the issue
        |at hand.


          |u/DohnJoggett - 9 hours
          |
          |>The weed energy drinks I am aware of have some sort of "diol"
          |(alcohol, ethanol, butanediol, etc) to "store" the THC which
          |doesn't change the physics of the issue at hand.  Those are
          |the shitty old style drinks. Nowadays they use ultrasonic
          |emulsifiers and the drinks taste like regular seltzers or
          |sodas. You can even buy the water soluble THC powder and mix
          |your own drinks.


            |u/stuffeh - 8 hours
            |
            |That's still rosin which is glycerin / oil based and suffers
            |from issues I've mentioned.


      |u/stuffeh - 11 hours
      |
      |Emulsifying the thc infused oil doesn't change the fact the thc
      |wouldn't be able to be absorbed by the gills. THC is a lipophilic
      |substance which just isn't able to be extracted by gills since the
      |blood is hemolymph.


|u/JustSomeGuy_TX - 14 hours
|
|So this??  Hey Dave!! Why are you smoking pot behind the lobster tank??
|Who me?  No man. I am just helping them chill a bit before being boiled.
|Really!! I swear!!


  |u/Master_Register2591 - 8 hours
  |
  |Dave's not here man.


|u/melpec - 14 hours
|
|Did these fine scientists make sure lobsters have the proper receptors
|to get high on THC?


  |u/thebruce - 14 hours
  |
  |https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9083469/#:~:text=It%20is%20al
  |so%20possible%20that,et%20al.%2C%202019  Getting high might be a
  |stretch, but they did respond to it. It seemed to have minimal effect
  |on nociception, so I'm not sure that it makes killing humane, but
  |maybe it still managed to dull the subjective experience of pain.
  |Can't say.


    |u/Consistent_Bee3478 - 13 hours
    |
    |Since lobsters don’t have a central brain really you can‘t stab them
    |to kill them anyway, and if you have a drug that can fully remove
    |sensation to the point of not sensing boiling water, you can simply
    |use that drug to kill the bloody lobster.   We have two simple ways
    |of killing lobsters without causing harm already: suffocation with
    |an inert gas (nitrogen, helium, argon; xenon) or flash freezing
    |them.   There‘s really no reason to further experiment. Shops do not
    |need live lobsters anyway, and flash frozen lobster lasts.    So why
    |would any lay person do these bulkshit mad scientist experiments?
    |The other humane option is to take a hammer and to fully flatten the
    |‚face‘ and body of the lobster in one blow.


      |u/Netzath - 13 hours
      |
      |crustaceans develop a lot of bad bacteria after dying so keeping
      |them alive is important for our health. And also fresh food is
      |always better that frozen one.


        |u/ImChrisBrown - 12 hours
        |
        |Whoa whoa whoa do some research on the freezing industry. Frozen
        |food absolutely slaps the shit out of some fresh counterparts


          |u/Netzath - 12 hours
          |
          |please elaborate. I'm intrigued


            |u/PancakeBuny - 12 hours
            |
            |You’ve likely never had much fresh tuna. It’s blast frozen
            |to preserve and kill parasites. Flash frozen fish is pretty
            |normal. And in many cases what you want to happen for that
            |kill step.     Same with flash frozen lobster. It does a
            |great job of preserving before the ammonia appears from the
            |body breaking down.


              |u/sadrice - 9 hours
              |
              |Tuna is actually one of the few wild fish that is safe to
              |eat raw, unfrozen, and is often exempt from regulations
              |requiring freezing ([here’s an example](https://web-
              |dfsr.s3-fips-us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/Iowa/assets/File/
              |14%20Parasite%20Destruction%20Requirements.pdf)).  There
              |are probably other safe fish, but tuna is unique in having
              |a long cultural history of people eating it raw without
              |problems, so that gives us the data for governments to
              |trust it.  Still, unfrozen tuna is rare, unless you are
              |getting it straight off the boat, and I believe they
              |generally freeze their tuna at sea immediately after
              |catching anyways.


                |u/PancakeBuny - 9 hours
                |
                |Fortunately true for the Tuna for sure. The big'uns, I'd
                |be happy to take a bite out; I'd dream of fresh bluefin,
                |might be hesitant on yellowfin. And comparatively to
                |swordfish it could be infested and still clean in my
                |books since its parasites aren’t nearly as nasty!    But
                |you're spot on that It is incredibly rare to have fresh
                |never frozen tuna, Espically bluefin. Tsukiji market is
                |an incredible place, and seeing that Tuna auction will
                |always be a highlight of my years in Japan. But the
                |price they pay dictates that flash frozen fish is king.


            |u/butt_huffer42069 - 12 hours
            |
            |For one instance that I'm aware of- frozen fruits and
            |veggies often have higher nutrient levels due to being
            |frozen closer to peak ripeness compared to fresh that sits
            |in transit and degrades, or it's cut early to ripen en
            |route, etc


              |u/sadrice - 9 hours
              |
              |Frozen can potentially be processed day of harvest, in a
              |facility not far from the farm.  You can’t get that level
              |of freshness at a grocery store, or even some farmers
              |markets.


            |u/J-Dawg_Cookmaster - 11 hours
            |
            |Well for one, frozen berries are often more nutritious than
            |fresh berries


            |u/Jazzlike_Ad_5033 - 11 hours
            |
            |If they won't, I will.   Freezing is considered the most
            |humane way to euthanize invertebrates (per the breeders,
            |keepers, and published guidelines. )  Because of the
            |decentralized nervous system, acute trauma does not cause
            |their bodily functions to cease.   A pin through the head is
            |performative at best, and needlessly stressful.   I once had
            |the pleasure of training a new cook who threw live lobsters
            |into warming water before the boil.   I'd never felt so bad.
            |Vegetarian now though!


              |u/SomeDumRedditor - 7 hours
              |
              |What’s the home cook to do when the fish market has only
              |live lobsters? I’m fresh out of inert gas and my home
              |freezer doesn’t seem the right tool. Seriously asking. I
              |love my water bug and butter but I’m not trying to cause
              |unnecessary suffering. 


        |u/0utF0x3d - 12 hours
        |
        |Isn't almost all sea food flash frozen on ship. Why can't we
        |flash freeze lobsters.


          |u/Kasspa - 9 hours
          |
          |Yes it is. This guy just doesn't know or understand that the
          |fish he buys from the store has been flash frozen.


        |u/Tryknj99 - 13 hours
        |
        |They already have the bacteria, but when they’re dead it
        |multiples like crazy and releases toxins. Cooking doesn’t rid
        |the toxins once they’re already there.


        |u/TortelliniTheGoblin - 10 hours
        |
        |How do you get upvotes for saying something so easily disproven?
        |This is *literally* at your fingertips


      |u/ThrowbackPie - 4 hours
      |
      |This whole conversation is bizarre.   If you get sniped while
      |sitting in a park bench that doesn't make it ok, because you
      |(presumably) wanted to live.   People need to own up to what they
      |do to animals they like the taste of and stop calling it 'humane'.
      |It isn't, it's just hopefully painless.


      |u/kozyko - 32 minutes
      |
      |“Humane” and “fully flatten their face body with a hammer” in the
      |same sentence. The cognitive dissonance is absurd and it’s sad how
      |many upvotes this has received.   Killing is not humane because
      |killing is inhumane by nature. A “humanely” killed animal is still
      |a killed animal.


      |u/Butt_Breake - 13 hours
      |
      |I don’t believe you that frozen lobster is just as good as fresh
      |lobster. You have a weird naysayer vibe about you that I don’t
      |appreciate.


        |u/Small-Breakfast903 - 13 hours
        |
        |the vast majority of fish, including sushi, has been frozen at
        |some step in the process. A lot of fish, especially but not only
        |freshwater, needs to be frozen to treat for parasites, and ocean
        |caught fish is generally frozen on the boat when caught.


          |u/ffnnhhw - 11 hours
          |
          |flash frozen part I get it  but I would imagine thawing a
          |flash frozen lobster is different from thawing tuna   I always
          |get that ammonia smell when thawing lobster tail but not fish


          |u/DisagreeableFool - 12 hours
          |
          |Bro said lobster. Lobster ain't a fish. 


            |u/Small-Breakfast903 - 12 hours
            |
            |in zoological terms it's not, but we're talking culinary
            |definitions, and in that framework, Lobster is shellfish.


              |u/butt_huffer42069 - 11 hours
              |
              |Woulda had a better standing if you called it all seafood
              |imo. No I won't explain


                |u/Ihatedominospizza - 11 hours
                |
                |>I didn’t understand it when you said it and therefore
                |you are incorrect


                |u/Small-Breakfast903 - 11 hours
                |
                |I mean, both are true, so why would it change my
                |standing?  nvm, I don't actually care about comments
                |trying to find a way to correct it without adding
                |anything.


        |u/Kaijupants - 12 hours
        |
        |Flash freezing is by far a better process in most cases for most
        |foods. The usually process for seafood is straight from storage
        |to freezer where everything is frozen almost instantly using
        |cryogenic liquids. I don't see why you'd think the bacteria
        |would have a chance to multiply when they're also frozen up
        |until the point of cooking still.


      |u/Icharus - 24 minutes
      |
      |"the other humane option" as if simply leaving them the fuck alone
      |is not one


      |u/Nyx_Lani - 13 hours
      |
      |Boiling it alive makes it taste richer. I wouldn't want to pay top
      |price for a lobster with a dirty head wound, frozen (not FRESH),
      |or full of toxic gases. No way!


        |u/ChemicalRascal - 13 hours
        |
        |I mean, if those were toxic gases that might be a problem  But
        |inert gases aren't toxic. They kill by simply not being oxygen.


          |u/Nyx_Lani - 13 hours
          |
          |You wouldn't breathe a canister of argon, would you? Not
          |oxygen = toxic = not safe


            |u/TheAykroyd - 13 hours
            |
            |Are you planning on breathing the lobster?


              |u/Small-Breakfast903 - 13 hours
              |
              |I tried breathing in my fresh, organic, oxygen-rich wild-
              |caught lobster and I started choking. Do you think my
              |lobster supplier lied to me? I think he may have
              |suffocated it with helium.


                |u/TheAykroyd - 13 hours
                |
                |Worse. Sulphur hexafluoride.


              |u/Nyx_Lani - 12 hours
              |
              |Well in America we do reserve that right


            |u/Wild_Snow_2632 - 13 hours
            |
            |Uhhh air has a lot of things besides oxygen in it


            |u/gigashadowwolf - 13 hours
            |
            |Not really. It's functionally equivalent to putting the
            |lobster in a vacuum, except they don't feel the sensation of
            |suffocation or their blood vessels popping.  Inert gasses
            |are by definition inert. It feels just like oxygen, except
            |you don't get oxygen.  It's not toxic.


            |u/ChemicalRascal - 12 hours
            |
            |That's not what toxic means. Inert gases are non-toxic.
            |They're inert.  You would be fine to breathe an argon-oxygen
            |mix, in an approximate 3:1 ratio. In the same way you'd be
            |fine to breathe a nitrogen-oxygen mix.  In fact, you're
            |breathing a nitrogen-oxygen mix right now. Because the
            |Earth's atmosphere is only about 21% oxygen, with the vast
            |majority of the rest being nitrogen (off the top of my head,
            |about 70% is nitrogen).  I admittedly can't recall if that's
            |by particle count or by weight, though it doesn't _really_
            |make a notable difference.


              |u/Nyx_Lani - 12 hours
              |
              |Feelings don't care about your facts.


                |u/ChemicalRascal - 12 hours
                |
                |Damn, dude, you took Poe's Law as a _challenge_, huh


                |u/yoyododomofo - 11 hours
                |
                |Hahaha at least you admitted you’ve got nothing but
                |feelings


            |u/axonxorz - 11 hours
            |
            |Oxygen toxicity is a real thing that requires _more_ than
            |the normal amount in the air.  Toxic is a specific term with
            |a specific definition, it doesn't simply mean "not safe"


            |u/pwrsrc - 6 hours
            |
            |"Not oxygen = toxic = not safe"  lmfao


              |u/Nyx_Lani - 6 hours
              |
              |1-800-273-8255  There is hope. The argon may call to you
              |but you must resist.


        |u/3sp00py - 13 hours
        |
        |Just a heads up you're inhaling a small amount of those gases
        |with every breath :)


          |u/Nyx_Lani - 13 hours
          |
          |The price of life is slow death. But that's why you should pay
          |top dollar for some top-grade boiled alive lobster that
          |doesn't have any!


            |u/Sepof - 13 hours
            |
            |... But it does....


              |u/Nyx_Lani - 12 hours
              |
              |Listen do you want to argue or do you want to see this
              |lobster boil? 🦞


                |u/Sepof - 12 hours
                |
                |It'll taste the same either way.


        |u/tonycomputerguy - 13 hours
        |
        |Can we, in fact, make them suffer more? Maybe it would make the
        |meat of the innocent creature even more flavorful to me!


          |u/Reasonable_Feed7939 - 13 hours
          |
          |My research team is looking into massive saws as a promising
          |approach!


          |u/_wormbaby_ - 4 hours
          |
          |Crucify them.


          |u/Nyx_Lani - 13 hours
          |
          |Electricity in the water! Blast annoying sounds! Read them
          |their Last Rites! 😈


        |u/Gaseouscrotum - 13 hours
        |
        |The fear gives it that extra flavor.


  |u/Rospigg1987 - 14 hours
  |
  |Oh yes I can certainly imagine they have extensive study on the
  |subject and will soon publish their findings in a  paper just as soon
  |as they have finished these funyuns and rick & morty marathon.
  |Personally a bit excited from the peer review by Cheech & Chong
  |research foundation.


  |u/RepulsiveLoquat418 - 14 hours
  |
  |don't try to fuck up a lovely story about hotboxing lobsters.


  |u/onemanmelee - 11 hours
  |
  |Great question actually, especially given they're aquatic. I wonder if
  |there are even similar compounds to THC down there.


|u/Tehshayne - 13 hours
|
|I remember as a child my uncle brought lobster for Thanksgiving dinner
|or something.   The lobsters were swimming in the (unrunning) washing
|machine, to which he added some beer so they could enjoy their last
|hours.


  |u/camellia980 - 5 hours
  |
  |This is my new favorite reddit story. 🦞


|u/sinus86 - 12 hours
|
|I feel like a stoned line cook in Maine came up with a reason why it
|smelled like reefer in the kitchen and the story has just gotten so far
|out if hand he's in there getting lobsters high every day.


|u/dma1965 - 14 hours
|
| I can see this now. Lobster gets stoned and gets the munchies and says
|“so what are they cooking in there?”


  |u/blighander - 13 hours
  |
  |"Mmm... Something smells good! Wait a sec.."


|u/Heavy_Direction1547 - 14 hours
|
|Quick thinking there chef.


  |u/hogtiedcantalope - 12 hours
  |
  |*cops bust in*  IT'S CULINARY I SWEAR!


  |u/Liquid_Friction - 13 hours
  |
  |He watched chicken run 2 the night before.


|u/nixstyx - 13 hours
|
|Lobsters just getting anxious af.    Hey man, does it feel like this
|water is getting a bit too warm? Nah, man, you're just trippin.


|u/J-96788-EU - 14 hours
|
|"humane death"


  |u/whiskeytango55 - 14 hours
  |
  |You should see what they do to the jumbo shrimp


  |u/PrinceBunnyBoy - 12 hours
  |
  |No you see it's fine we kill animals by the trillions because we say
  |it's humane so it's OK :)  I still don't know why people got so
  |outraged by my new innovative euthanasia option for dogs, I mean *I*
  |say it's *humane*!


    |u/No_Excitement4272 - 12 hours
    |
    |Would you prefer we do what all other mammalian predators do and rip
    |apart our prey with our teeth while they’re still alive? 


      |u/PrinceBunnyBoy - 11 hours
      |
      |The amazing thing is we don't have to do any of that :)   You
      |really shouldn't base your morals after wild animals. Lions and
      |zebra will kill cubs/foals to reproduce after all.


        |u/No_Excitement4272 - 11 hours
        |
        |I base my morals on keeping myself alive and healthy, thanks. 
        |I’m gonna listen to my doctor’s dietary recommendations over
        |self-righteous vegan redditors. 


          |u/Kreadon - 5 hours
          |
          |Based. The pretentious moral superiority is disgusting. I urge
          |any vegan to once watch a documentary about life in some dirt-
          |poor country that relies on subsistence agriculture instead of
          |tear-jerking "animal cruelty" flicks.


            |u/ThrowbackPie - 4 hours
            |
            |Do you live on subsistence agriculture in a dirt poor
            |country?


              |u/Kreadon - 3 hours
              |
              |I grew up in a third-world country, yes. We used to melt
              |found aluminium to a piece of goat or sheep parchment, and
              |play with that as a kick toy. Otherwise we had rocks to
              |play with. There was no constant electricity and water is
              |still bought in bottles outside. Village where I was born
              |mostly had houses made out of mudbrick. Most people in the
              |world today still live in conditions akin to these. I'm no
              |longer poor - mostly because my family moved to a
              |developed country when I was young. But I will never
              |sympathize with any of you people who think they have a
              |right to tell people how to live, when they struggle to
              |live in the first place. I care about people first.
              |Animals should go care about themselves.


                |u/ThrowbackPie - 2 hours
                |
                |Do you really think I judge poor people who are just
                |trying to survive, as opposed to people like you who are
                |in a position to choose.


          |u/PrinceBunnyBoy - 8 hours
          |
          |Like the other guy said, many of the largest health
          |organizations say veganism is all good and well for all life
          |stages.   Also saying you don't have to hurt animals is self
          |righteous? Lmao


          |u/o1011o - 10 hours
          |
          |Many of the major health organizations recommend a vegan diet,
          |including the American Dietetics Association - "It is the
          |position of the American Dietetic Association that
          |appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total
          |vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally
          |adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention
          |and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian
          |diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the
          |life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy,
          |childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."  If your doctor
          |is telling you to eat meat then they're just showing they're
          |not educated about nutrition, which is a different subject
          |than the one they have a doctorate in. I wouldn't listen to a
          |car mechanic's advice on how to fix my computer or a
          |physicist's advice on how to finish my novel, despite them
          |being very capable in another field. I'm probably wasting my
          |time with logic though as I very much doubt your appeal to
          |authority was done in good faith and that you are just
          |reaching out blindly for some rationalization after the fact.


            |u/Programmdude - 55 minutes
            |
            |That's not "recommends a vegan diet". That's "a vegan diet
            |is healthy and suitable". Omnivore/vegetarian diets are also
            |healthy and suitable too.  When doctors say to eat meat,
            |it's almost always because you're iron deficient, and red
            |meat is an easy way to fix that. It's not the only way, as
            |legumes are also another good source.


      |u/cactus_deepthroater - 11 hours
      |
      |I would prefer if humans didn't participate in barbaric cruelty of
      |trillions of living beings.


        |u/SolarApricot-Wsmith - 11 hours
        |
        |Lol id honestly go for humans not participating in murder and a
        |few other things first, against other human beings, before I
        |start worrying about how the lobsters and fish and cows and pigs
        |are gonna die.   I’d prefer world peace, but if I  go around
        |telling other people what to do they’re not gonna like it.  So I
        |just content myself with knowing I’ll never murder another human
        |being and leave it at that. Not saying you’re advocating for
        |vegetarianism or something like that, but in general It’s kind
        |of silly to worry or imagine you could stop billions of people
        |from eating meat, or that you should have a say in what they eat
        |say or do.


          |u/o1011o - 10 hours
          |
          |Do you honestly think we'll stop killing each other while we
          |excuse ourselves from killing trillions of other animals? Do
          |you not see how a person's willingness to hurt others just
          |because they're sufficiently different is the whole problem
          |with human violence?  “As long as Man continues to be the
          |ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know
          |health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they
          |will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder
          |and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ― Pythagoras


          |u/cactus_deepthroater - 10 hours
          |
          |World peace isn't possible as long as we keep killing animals,
          |as animals are part of the world as well. :)


            |u/OrneryAttorney7508 - 9 hours
            |
            |Sure Jan.


              |u/cactus_deepthroater - 9 hours
              |
              |What does the mean (asking honestly idk what that means)?


          |u/ThrowbackPie - 4 hours
          |
          |Are you...a murderer of other humans who needs to stop doing
          |that before you can go vegan?


        |u/No_Excitement4272 - 11 hours
        |
        |Cool, then advocate for more humane practices and stop shoving
        |your beliefs down others throats. You’re wasting your time
        |trying to get the whole world to stop eating animal products. 
        |You ever think that maybe you could make more of a difference
        |working with omnivores instead of ostracizing yourself from the
        |majority of the population and shaming predatory mammals for
        |doing predatory mammal things…   As much as you kick and scream,
        |we’ll never be ruminates, as cool as that would be. Although I’m
        |sure you’re aware that ruminate mammals will also eat other
        |animals even though it’s not a dietary necessity.   Just wait
        |until climate change wipes out virtually all crops that are
        |edible to humans and animals become our main source of food,
        |because cows and other ruminates are capable of taking food we
        |can’t eat, and turning it into food we can eat…   These childish
        |views that you and other vegans hold, are devoid of critical
        |thinking and I’m really fed up with it.


          |u/cactus_deepthroater - 11 hours
          |
          |Cool :)  Animal agriculture is a large part of why climate
          |change is so bad. Also without crops, what are livestock gonna
          |eat? Without crops you won't have any animals to be cruel to.
          |Well, I guess you could just hunt wild animals to extinction.
          |Also, your beliefs get shoved down my throat at every turn, so
          |idc if my beliefs annoy you. If you're getting that pissed at
          |my views, you were never gonna change yours in the first
          |place.


            |u/No_Excitement4272 - 11 hours
            |
            |Our current agricultural practices in general are part of
            |the reason why climate change is so bad. That includes
            |crops. Some crops are even worse for the environment than
            |livestock, you know this.   Not all livestock eat the same
            |food as humans… A great example are goats. They can digest a
            |variety of plants that are poisonous to humans, including
            |some of the worse invasive species, like English ivy. 
            |Without cows, 100% of the world’s fertilizer for crops would
            |come from chemicals, instead of 50%.   Stop using your
            |feelings to justify your stupidity, and take the time to
            |examine your biases and where you’re getting your info
            |from.   For someone who supposedly cares so much about
            |animals, you sure don’t know a whole lot about them. 


              |u/cactus_deepthroater - 10 hours
              |
              |The fact remains that crops are needed either way, why not
              |just cut out the middle man and eat the crops directly.
              |Plant based fertilizers are a thing. Most of our crops go
              |towards feeding animals, so crops would be a lot less of a
              |strain on the environment without livestock. I'm not using
              |feelings alone to justify anything. And veganism isn't
              |about environmentalism anyway, it's about animal rights.
              |If woman having rights was somehow harmful to the
              |environment, would you take away womans rights? I hope
              |not.


              |u/ThrowbackPie - 4 hours
              |
              |https://www.green.earth/blog/top-10-causes-of-
              |deforestation  The IPCC recommends diets globally shift to
              |more plants to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions.
              |Go and do some reading FFS.


      |u/InquisitorMeow - 8 hours
      |
      |Comparing ourselves against animals, high bar we set for
      |ourselves.


        |u/No_Excitement4272 - 7 hours
        |
        |We are literally animals


          |u/InquisitorMeow - 7 hours
          |
          |Sure but that's like comparing yourself against a strung out
          |crack addict and thinking you are doing ok. Maybe we should
          |aim higher.


|u/Cinemaphreak - 9 hours
|
|Translation: "we had yet another tourist complain about the whole
|boiling alive part, so we told them this BS to shut them up."


  |u/outer_fucking_space - 9 hours
  |
  |As a Mainer, I’d say you nailed it.


|u/FishSammich80 - 13 hours
|
|Riight, an employee got caught with weed and made up something 😂😂


  |u/2ByteTheDecker - 13 hours
  |
  |Not just with weed, but trying to smoke it out of the little cloche
  |smoker unit.


    |u/FishSammich80 - 12 hours
    |
    |Those are real herbs on that salmon filet 😂😂  “This food is so good,
    |I can’t eat enough!”


|u/Radiolotek - 12 hours
|
|Some busboy got caught smoking weed in the back and came up with this
|story on the spot. The moronic management went with it.


|u/deadbeef1a4 - 10 hours
|
|So they get baked before they get boiled?


  |u/Indocede - 10 hours
  |
  |First you get some pot and then you get a pot.


|u/MalinWaffle - 13 hours
|
|I ate there. Its an interesting idea and the lobster doesn't taste any
|different than other non-sedating restaurants. The owner is a hoot.


|u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 - 14 hours
|
|Probably were stoned from passive smoking anyway


|u/Isaacvithurston - 13 hours
|
|Wonder how high they were to come up with that idea. Most animals don't
|have receptors to get any effect from cannabis. but whatever lets them
|get away with smoking at work lol


|u/CarrotChunx - 14 hours
|
|"oh my god I'm going to die"   "Relax Robster you just got too high"


|u/wave2earl - 13 hours
|
|Did they get to call the dish, "Cheech Marina"?


|u/WastefulPursuit - 13 hours
|
|More like gave them a moment of sentience and questioning of the
|universe right before their head is split in two


|u/GravidDusch - 13 hours
|
|Also makes working in hospitality more humane I'm told.


|u/UmbertoEcoTheDolphin - 13 hours
|
|"It's...for the lobsters man!"


  |u/Stairwayunicorn - 13 hours
  |
  |Jordan Peterson, probably


|u/StayActive24207 - 12 hours
|
|An edible would be more solid.  Slide homie a 10mg and get him when he
|crashes out I guess. Let him ride that baby out.


|u/Basedgod912 - 11 hours
|
|Went there a year ago. Expensive as hell but pretty good. 


|u/FullClip__ - 14 hours
|
|The Lobster Haze sandwich is incredible. Comes with a OG Red Claw side
|for free at 4:20. Extra dip recommended.


|u/BernieTheDachshund - 11 hours
|
|Well, at least they're trying to help the lobsters.


|u/Raichu7 - 10 hours
|
|They couldn't just train the chefs to destroy the entire nerve bundle
|running down the lobster's back in one cut? Destroying the whole "brain"
|or what a lobster has instead has got to be less painful than boiling it
|alive.


  |u/AutomaticAward3460 - 6 hours
  |
  |That’s not how lobsters work. Cutting them down the back doesn’t kill
  |them like destroying a brain in a more sentient creature like a mammal
  |would. They have 5 independent nerve clusters throughout the body
  |running on impulse that would have to be destroyed


|u/GarysCrispLettuce - 13 hours
|
|Better still, just don't eat lobsters.


|u/Aranthos-Faroth - 12 hours
|
|Still alien levels of cruelty tbh


|u/melie776 - 13 hours
|
|Or they could have taken lobster off the menu.


|u/ButkusBreath - 14 hours
|
|Or they got really paranoid.


|u/Beatless7 - 13 hours
|
|Lobster is thinking, pppot nnnot stststrong enough.


|u/HornedShoe - 13 hours
|
|Nice.


|u/Adventurous-Start874 - 13 hours
|
|I think you mean saying ‘it gave them a humane death, maaaan’


|u/4fu - 12 hours
|
|I wonder who came up with that idea .


|u/Hucklebearer_411 - 12 hours
|
|“Likely story, Chef. Now get your ass back in the kitchen.”


|u/keladelph - 12 hours
|
|Stoned Lobster!


|u/1L0veTurtles - 12 hours
|
|Lobstane death


|u/Ok_Simple6936 - 12 hours
|
|Just like our brain cells ,a lovely peaceful death


|u/Madyline - 12 hours
|
|baked lobster anyone?


|u/kpsi355 - 11 hours
|
|If they did it to salmon, would it be called “Hot Box’d Lox”?


|u/Dmanthelucky - 11 hours
|
|Going out on a high note


|u/KingButPrince - 11 hours
|
|“yer fond of me lobster ain't ye?”


|u/esach88 - 11 hours
|
|Does... THC affect lobsters? I feel like no, but I am very ignorant on
|the subject.


|u/xanroeld - 11 hours
|
|And a rich smoky flavor


|u/uninteresting_handle - 10 hours
|
|Lobsters get a better gig than me


|u/jedge01 - 10 hours
|
|Smoked lobster?


|u/MnGoulash - 10 hours
|
|Based…ed and boiled, biatch


|u/fiks7un - 9 hours
|
|Finally some fucking ethics


|u/Justaboredstoner - 9 hours
|
|Baked lobster


|u/JetpackBattlin - 9 hours
|
|There they saw a stone!   But it wasn't a stone..   It was a stoned
|lobster!


|u/R0b0tJesus - 9 hours
|
|"I'd like the smoked lobster."


|u/Dolatron - 8 hours
|
|I’d be one paranoid-assed lobster


|u/ReginaldHLG - 8 hours
|
|So they were baked, then boiled?


|u/the_dirtiest_rascal - 8 hours
|
|Pretty sure being high as hell, would make being boiled alive much more
|terrifying?


|u/Superjoe42 - 8 hours
|
|I have eaten there. They have news articles posted up on a wall. It's a
|small operation and seating is outside only. The atmosphere is great and
|so is the food. Worth visiting if you go to Acadia National Park in the
|summer.


|u/SirGreeneth - 8 hours
|
|Pretty expensive way of doing it


|u/AccordionORama - 7 hours
|
|I love smoked lobster,  but toked lobster is even better!


|u/Master-Potato - 7 hours
|
|I though they were selling lobster instead of stoned crab


|u/WrongEinstein - 7 hours
|
|So there was an appointed lobster baker.


|u/Xaxafrad - 6 hours
|
|Do their nervous system even have THC binding sites?


|u/FacelessFellow - 6 hours
|
|Cannabis does not make you stop feeling boiling water.  Most cannabis
|enthusiasts have burned themselves with ramen water


|u/_stayhuman - 6 hours
|
|Excuse me, waiter, but how is the lobster prepared?  #BAKED


|u/m0j0r0lla - 6 hours
|
|*Our lobsters are baked then boiled daily*


|u/Zealousideal-Swing44 - 6 hours
|
|High til I die


|u/SheZowRaisedByWolves - 3 hours
|
|Question: would putting a lobster down with a lobster sized revolver be
|humane


|u/StickItInTheBuns - 2 hours
|
|The new baked Alaska


|u/ImprovementScared157 - 2 hours
|
|I guess the gesture is something.  Creeps me out to see them tied up and
|then boiled alive.  It's got to be wrong.


|u/AndholRoin - 2 hours
|
|bake them, boil them, put them in a stew


|u/The_Chosen_Unbread - 1 hour
|
|This is just to explain away the smell of them smoking weed thenselves


|u/Stanwich79 - 1 hour
|
|Now I'm picturing Anthony Bourdain giving a lobster heroin.


|u/wholesomeletters - 33 minutes
|
|Can you put the lobster in the freezer until they die? I imagen freezing
|to death is better then boiling alive until u die


|u/AkiraHikaru - 13 hours
|
|Or just don’t kill them?


  |u/No_Excitement4272 - 12 hours
  |
  |Wouldn’t be very humane to eat them alive


|u/IgnorantGenius - 14 hours
|
|Wouldn't the marijuana go into the lobster so whoever eats it may get a
|buzz or trace amounts?


  |u/punjar3 - 12 hours
  |
  |I've been there a few times and so far haven't gotten high off the
  |lobster.


    |u/IgnorantGenius - 11 hours
    |
    |Think you can request more from the cooks?


  |u/FecusTPeekusberg - 12 hours
  |
  |This does make me wonder. What if you fed a cow marijuana its whole
  |life before butchering it?


|u/zigaliciousone - 12 hours
|
|If you've ever cooked one of these in a steamer, you know they feel
|SOMETHING because when that box gets to a certain temp, the lobster
|wails on the walls aggressively until it's dead.


  |u/Rosebunse - 11 hours
  |
  |I did not know that, as I am poor and have never had lobster


|u/Admirable_Remove6824 - 14 hours
|
|It’s an experiment for future use of executions.


|u/ShakaUVM - 14 hours
|
|Smoked meat


|u/Critical_Moose - 11 hours
|
|Humane death is such a funny, but sad oxymoron


|u/Reality_Defiant - 9 hours
|
|Idiotic. So not even knowing what marijuana smoke does to a lobster, and
|still throwing them alive into a pot of boiling water, how is this
|humane? This world is devolving before my eyes. The lobsters are smarter
|than these "people". I use that term loosely.


|u/greyjedimaster77 - 13 hours
|
|Gotta ease the pain in some way


|u/epiclinkster - 8 hours
|
|Oh hey I got to interview the people who did this for a radio show! They
|claimed it made the lobster taste better due to less stress hormones.
|What's funny to me is the FDA did not approve of this method so they
|switched to using benzo's (like Xanax), which the FDA did approve of.
|Wacky stuff.


  |u/Mithrilh4ll - 5 hours
  |
  |Just another reason to charge you more $$$.


|u/ProTimeKiller - 7 hours
|
|Root word of humane is human. Lobsters aren't human.


|u/Ancient-Builder3646 - 13 hours
|
|Humane is like the strangest word. It means killing an animal with as
|less as possible discomfort, Like you would kill a human.....


|u/Budget_Llama_Shoes - 11 hours
|
|You know how chocolate to us is delicious, but it kills dogs? Dogs are a
|lot closer to us than lobsters. Do lobsters even get high? Can they? You
|know they’re immortal, right? Their telomeres don’t get shorter as they
|age, and predation or bacteria in their exoskeleton after not having the
|energy to molt is what kills them. If we helped them molt, they would
|never die. That’s enough evidence for me to suggest that THC is unlikely
|to have the same effect on lobsters as humans. Also, what reactions did
|the lobsters give to even suggest this works?


|u/KingOfSkulls - 13 hours
|
|   , mm? Pop 00p