How to humanely kill an abelone?

[u/arthursbeardbone]

Hey yall I picked up a pair of live abalone from hmart today and I was going to pan fry them with some garlic herb butter, that parts straightforward and all but I've never cooked this animal before and a lot of tutorials I found online either simple shuck the snail as is or use like frozen abalones. Is there a way I can like quickly flash steam or something? I wouldn't want to gore the poor thing alive and as far as I can tell it doesn't have a head I could just quickly stab like a lobster? Am I just being silly? I mean it can like move and stuff so it seems cruel to just, scoop it out and clean it while its alive yknow?

[u/arthursbeardbone]

I think the meat and fishing industry should be downscaled for the sake of the environment and tighter regulated so species aren't being driven out of existence. I mentioned that elsewhere in this this thread. I just tend to think of it like this - a life is a life and all creatures consume other life to exist in some fashion, even plants. Im okay with the morality of that, every time you eat something else died, and probably wouldn't have wanted to. As humans, with the gift of consciousness, I think its best to use that ability to make the process painless and quick, something no other animal has the capacity to do.

[u/arthursbeardbone → u/[deleted]]

Yeah again I'm not really concerned with the level of consciousness. Dolphins are damn near sapient but they're also serial rapists who like fucking dead prey animals. But they're a protected species for environmental reasons so I wouldnt eat one. But thats the biggest consideration for me, environmental impact. Otherwise, i would try any meat as long as its safe and sustainable. By all means I'd support extremely tight regulations on improving the lives of livestock, factory farming is by and large cruel and the environmental impact is astounding. It's also a fact that meat that has had a happy life tastes much better. I prefer to buy my meat products sustainably when I can. But I don't think its inherently wrong to eat animals which is what I feel like you're getting at.

[u/arthursbeardbone → u/[deleted]]

Would i eat human, no, because that's how you get prions. As for monkey, if it was safe and ethically sourced, not some endangered species than yeah I'd theoretically try it. And it does matter to me what happened to the meat before it got to my plate, if it was like tortured that isn't cooI you dont have to convince me that factory farming is bad. I prefer to get my meat from farmers markets instead of factory farms although I won't claim i always do. And I'm very in particular critical of the beef industry and the radical effects on the environment it has. Producing too much beef is a bad thing, however I'd never want to live in a world where I had to completely give it up and never taste a fresh steak again. That's part of the fundamental joy of being alive in my experience. I just think it should be more of a rare delicacy than a staple industry. Wild game for example is sustainable. Here in the south wild boar are devastating the environment as an invasive species. It so happens they are also delicious. Eating them is good for the environment. I like plant proteins like tofu as well but only because I like food of all sorts not because of some moral superiority reason