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Food Kills

Food Kills This is a poetry exercise, write down what´s comes into your mind....lobster. What the Hell? A red crustacean on a bed of lettuce with lemon and mayonnaise sauce sprinkled with parsley. Can one taste agony? Dipped alive in boiling water unheard screams, a long tool to retrieve, white meat from claws. Am I a surgeon now? The lobster catcher is not guilty of anything he just catches sells them, but cannot afford to eat them.... He has a lobster pet at home, it is sort of brown and lives in tank, calls it Charlie but he says nothing, this trader of food for the rich.

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Date: 11/17/2013 8:45:00 AM
I have never eaten lobster, not because I am not a sadist. I just don't like it. How do I know? I can't stand looking at it. Scalding anything alive is not a good thing. How cavalier to claim it doesn't hurt no matter the scientific back-up.
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 11/17/2013 5:33:00 PM
but a scientist in boiling water, then he will know how it feels

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