Alice had crabs for dinner a couple nights ago.  A vegetation – I did not partake.  Sawyer was steaming the little guys and I was reminded of the time Andy, Casey and Randy went crabbing at Kemah.  I had pretty much given up meat and was almost a total vegetarian when they caught  a mess of Blue Crabs in Clear Lake by our home.  I told them I just couldn’t clean them live and would just chunk them in the boiling water to cook.  Do you know when you toss something live in boiling water it screams?  Well it does!  Crabs or what ever?  There I was with a huge pot of boiling water and I threw those live crustaceans in.   Crab legs were flailing, little voices hollering, and I am cramming a lid on the pot trying to not hear or see the entire thing.   As soon as all the blue crabs were in the pot, lid on, silence from within, did I realize they were dead.   Within an instance their poor souls are scurrying up my arms and pinching me.  It was quite a metaphysical visual and at that point I became a total vegetarian.

I know I have told this story to many of you and some of you think I am unrealistic in my belief  about animal souls.  But believe me they have souls.  You really shouldn’t kill them or eat them.  They will come back and haunt you or in my case pinch you.  Don’t really like the whole thought of it.  I just send them to animal heaven, when I see dead animal on the road or in the market.  I have a huge “road kill” animal heaven awaiting me when I get there.

Dead animals.  Think about that, what do you believe?

“You shall not kill or murder!”  One of those commandments, Moses found.  Poor old Moses and his ten commandments God gave him on a stone tablet up on a mountain.   Ever really thought about that one?  Don’t kill or murder, killing an animal is murder.  Take it seriously and don’t kill anything, including animals.  At least don’t make excuses if you do.