I have been sent a cutting from The Times, accompanied
by some pungent comments to which I can take no excep- tion. The essential sentence, which reaches me underlined, runs : ." Boil two small live lobsters." That unadorned in- junction appears under the cross-heading, "Lobster a la Newbury," and with the introductory affirmation "This is a specially delicious recipe." It may be ; and boiling live lobsters may be a delicious process, except for the lobsters. I know, of course, that I shall be told (a) that lobsters cannot feel, (b) that they feel positive pleasure in contact with boil- ing water (just as that self-sacrificing and public-spirited animal the fox does in the run for his life against out- rageous odds), and (c) that there is no other satisfactory way of killing lobsters. I can only say as to (a) that I should want decisive scientific evidence before I believed it, and as to (c) that if that is true I am for letting lobsters live.
JANus.
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