I Would Die 4 U

You have just finished ordering your meal at your favorite seafood restaurant. Eagerly anticipating the arrival of the butter-soaked animals, you casually sip from your Stella. Finally, you see the tray coming out from the kitchen. Your brain sends a signal to your mouth, and you begin to salivate uncontrollably. Your mind is well aware that within mere seconds you will be shoving Alaskan King Crab down your swollen gullet.

Greedily, you reach up towards the steaming mass, for a leg that is protruding tastily off the edge of the plate - the plate that is still in the waiters hands. He gives you a disgusted look that you fail to notice, as you are engulfed in the moment.

The red exterior is of no match to your clenching, bending and prodding, and within seconds the meat is cascading out of its protective shell into your fat mouth. A once majestic king of the ocean floor is now on its way to becoming churned up fecal matter, deposited into a poorly cleaned North American toilet. However, this is of no consquience to you since, well, King Crab is really fucking tasty.

Now, your overwhelming lust for the legs of the paralithode camtschaticus begs the question, "would you die for this, fat man?".

Chances are, regardless of your hunger-passion, you would not be willing to risk your life for crab meat. Chances are, your list of life risking endeavours begins with "family", and ends with "50 gagillion dollars"
Well, their are men who are willing to risk life an limb for this creature. Careful now, do not "freak out" crab-man, I am not referring to some smelly environmentalist, on a quest to protect these beasts. No. Quite the oppostite in fact. I am referring to alcoholic, drug addicted fishermen, who are on the fringes of society.
These brave souls risk their lives to trap the crab, and sell them world wide, so that you can shove the meat down into your gizzards.

One can speculate as to why they simply do not construct a machine to fish for these creatures as opposed to putting numerous lives in danger. Is this a classic case of bottom line profit margins versus human lives? Is this another Ford Fiesta like debacle of human dignity? Is the price of a fisherman's life really that low? Sweet fucking lord, I hope not.

Crab lover, you must realize that with every bite of that deliciously butter-soaked Crab meat, there is blood on your hands....But also realize, that you do not really give a shit.

MBW