Life without lobster, my dear. I just can’t imagine it.

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Winning support for Animal Rights was never going to be easy. We live in a conspiracy of misinformation which suits almost everyone, because it allows people to be speciesist, which in turn allows them to indulge in animal foods.

            While vegans are trying to defend abused animals, non-vegans are trying to do the opposite, by ‘not giving a damn’ about them. The educated food lover might wriggle out of the ethical quagmire but they keep sinking back into it each day, by cooking their bits of dead animal and practising the dark art of ‘animal cuisine’. It sounds quite respectable; it helps cooking enthusiasts to apply their sensitivity to the aesthetics of food, overriding the ethical side of it (the provenance of  those foods). It emphasises ‘food quality’ (nutrition or taste experience) in order to downplay the origins of animal foodstuffs.

For most people their pleasure is in indulgence. They think about it, savour it, salivate over it - the omnivore gastronome drools over food all day. The wealthy gastronomes indulge themselves in all the exotic delicacies without a single thought given to the animal behind what they’re eating; their favourite fleshy foods must not be given up lightly. Life without lobster is unimaginable.