[adolph]

And inversely, "Consider the Lobster"

Even in the harsh penal environment of early America, some colonies had laws against feeding lobsters to inmates more than once a week because it was through to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats.

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

[nkrisc]

To be fair, the first person to look at a lobster and think to eat it must have been desperate.

[adolph]

For sure. Then that early gourmand saw a snail, and frog legs, the. Turned around and saw their own dog.

Afterwards was reincarnated as Anthony CookingShowEatAnythingDude Bourdain.

[RF_Savage]

Not grinding them into paste whole certainly helped sell them as suitable for human consumption.