Cynthia Nixon shared her lobster dinner and PETA had some thoughts about it

Comparing eating lobster to eating your dog? Or even a human? Idiots.

Anyone involved with PETA is mentally ill and shouldn't be taken seriously.

I don’t agree with PETA and I eat dead cooked, delicious animals.

But I’m not a fan of boiling live animals to death. I hope they cook lobster differently now.

You can microwave them r3. Still alive but it’s quicker.

I live with a PETA member and had no peace during the Lady Gaga performance at the Olympics because it was awash in ostrich feathers.

Cynthia Nixon shared her lobster dinner for GAZA!

[quote] I live with a PETA member

That was your first mistake.

Peta should start focusing on not killing all the animals put in their care first and foremost. Until then they can just fuck off about the eating habits of others, please and thank you.

well, would you eat your dog?

Nah, she's too old -- her meat would probably be tough and stringy.

Cynthia needs to CLAP BACK ASAP !!

PETA has done more for animals than DL could possibly imagine.

It's the publicity stuff that's over-the-top crazy. But if they didn't do that stuff, they wouldn't have the power they have (and you'd be surprised how much power they have , especially in the entertainment world).

R12 Ha. I've heard a conspiracy theory that PETA is actually funded by agricultural lobbyists like industrial dairy and meat farms. They pay PETA to do deeply unpopular things and harrass people.  Like the people at the top know the money is coming from "the enemy" but they rationalize it by thinking the money actually helps them spread the message better and it helps more animals in the long run.  But I'm fairly convinced one day there's going to be a leak and its proven PETA gets a whole lot of donations from unexpected places.

[quote] But I’m not a fan of boiling live animals to death. I hope they cook lobster differently now.

You and PETA are essentially anthropomorphizing an insect.

Lobsters lack the type of nervous system that would make them feel capable of feeling “pain” as we know it..

If a lobster is able to keep molting, it can theoretically live forever. Better get them before they get us.

How the hell do you even eat that? It’s a giant ocean bug. Nasty.

I stopped eating octopus for these people. That’s as far as I go.

The overwhelming majority of the population pays for animals to be brought into into existence and be tortured in horrible horrible eays before being brutally slaughtered, yet they have the absolute gall to criticize Peta for painlessly euthanizing an animal out of altruism. Your average person hasn’t had a single critical thought in their life.

I’m not thrilled with how PETA does a lot of things, but they’ve done 100000x more good for animals than the average person. The people who make fun of them/attack them the most are overcompensating for their horrific treatment of animals.

Lobsters are one of the main reasons I adopted a vegan lifestyle. It’s one of the cruelest things we do, boiling them ALIVE.

R14 didn’t read the article he posted.

R18 You went vegan because of LOBSTERS?

You're an idiot.

I suspect she (like me) doesn’t give a fuck.

Like Clinton, lobsters feel your pain.

I'd rather have crab.

In the end, who really fucking cares if lobsters feel pain or not.

They’re LOBSTERS!

Oh no she ate a meal that tons of other people eat every day in coastal New England. Burn her!

I can’t believe Cynthia Nixon invented eating lobster.

PETA is absolutely exhausting. I tend to eat more vegetarian but whenever they raise a stink I want a turducken with a side of pork-beef meatballs.

Most chefs kill their lobsters with a knife stroke to the head before they boil them.

I don't much care what PETA thinks one way or the other about anything. They've always been nutcases who are incapable of nuance in argument.

Yeah, I ate a fucking lobster, I eat pussy, too!

This guy raised a supermarket lobster and named it Leon. I've watched a couple of episodes and it does make you ambivalent about boiling lobsters alive. People should just kill them with a knife before putting them into boiling water.

Haven’t had a good lobster in a long while. All this talk is making me crave one.

the Lobster Number

Leon's an interesting guy. I love Brady's minifilms about Leon and the two cats.

Oh, please!!!!! Oprah’s been eating snapping turtle and black tuna for years and PETA hasn’t said a damn word. Reverse racism anyone?

R14 Bullshit. Those are the same kind of studies that deny animals feelings in general. Being boiled alive hurts. We're just telling ourselves that what what we regularly do to animals doesn't so we're okay with letting fish suffocate en masse or boiling lobsters etc. Everything that doesn't with our self-image we try explaining away, telling ourselves "Oh it's just a reflex". Pure speciecism. It's not about anthropormorphizing animals - it's about realizing we're not that different.

I hope she took the leftovers home for lobster sandwiches on raisin bread.

R4, this sounds worse. Fill the pot with a lid and bring to a rolling boil. They are gone as soon as they hit the water.

Did she add prunes?

Careful r38, that thing still lurks here.

Cynthia Nixon is exhausted... and exhausting!

PETA is for pussies.

Allton Brown suggests putting them in the freezer which numbs them. Then you can use the knife.

Even my pets are sick of PETAphiles.

PETA needs to be dumped into the wild and see how animals treat them.

I don't like freezing them. I don't think it's necessary and it only prolongs their suffering.

1. Make sure the pot is tall and has a tight lid.

2. Fill at least 2/3rds with water. Add a handful of salt, as this raises the boiling temperature.

3. Keep on the lid until last minute to trap heat. Boil furiously.

4. Add the lobster and replace the lid. It should die instantly.

I hate doing it. That's why I get my lobster meat pre-steamed. I even hate that sound live mussels make in the fridge opening and closing their shells. Those I do cook myself; it's silly but it just seems morally less objectionable to kill them than lobsters.

R45, I may be wrong here and, it may be an old wives tales, but I've heard that lobsters scream/let out a high-pitched noise when dropped into boiling water.

As for Alton's tip, you don't put them in the freezer for 10-15 minutes; it's supposed to to 'put them out.' However, when I Googled that, it says that freezing them and then putting them in boiling water could revive them.

This thread has taken an unpleasant turn.

[quote] Allton Brown suggests putting them in the freezer which numbs them. Then you can use the knife.

I think freezing is also a form of suffering. I'd just run a knife through the head before dropping into boiling water. People think Alton Brown knows all.

I don't like lobster enough to bother with any of this. Let 'em stay down there at the bottom of the ocean, as far as I'm concerned.

The only little crustaceans I'd bother with are shrimp and I'm sure they don't enjoy death either, but they're smaller and more bug like to me.

What a fucking phoney

How did she become an actress much less a sex symbol on Sex and the City? She looks like a homely version of Dave Foley in drag.

Dave Foley in drag

SHOOT THEM

JUST FUCKING SHOOT THEM IN THEIR LOBSTER BRAINS

END THE MADNESS

I think since she's so sanctimonious about EVERYTHING it's a bad look.

LOL! r54