Tuesday, 13 February 2007

• "Did you Know?" of the Week

  A lobster with every piece of meat extracted from the shell, raw and fully intact, including the leg muscles:

  

  Did you know we have the technology to do this and it's actually approved as humane?

  "The animals are locked inside the tube, alive, and the pumps whir and the water pressure is compressed around the lobsters to three times the deepest trenches in the ocean. The lobsters die, of course -- just think what the pressure on your ears is like when you dive a few feet underwater.
  
  At the same time, all the muscle flesh inside the lobsters conveniently separates from the shell. For the first time in human history, people have finally devised way to extract the meat of a lobster without cooking it."

  Source: http://www.secretlifeoflobsters.com/blog/2006/06/how-to-kill-lobster-redux.asp

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