The fact that the animals will die regardless is somewhat irrelevant in my eyes. I don't need to eat them, just because they died... that's like saying, "Well, people are still going to make bombs... so we may as well buy em!" No - even if something is happening, you don't have to partake in it if you choose not to. And I can only speak for myself when I say this: I don't believe there is a "humane" way to kill an animal. You're still taking an animal's life when you get down to it. Well, first of all, comparing it to bombs? Eating is obviously nessicary (and owning bombs isn't), and I'm not saying its neccicary to eat them just because they died, I'd eat them because they taste good and are beneficial to eat. Yeah sure, you can eat plants or whatever, but hey? I don't really like the taste, you only live once, we're higher on the foodchain, why not eat it? I'm not saying you have to partake in it, I was just saying that they're dead anyway, you can't do anything about that, at least their death is being put to a good use. And honestly the fact that an animals life is lost doesn't worry me at all, if you find taking an animals life by boiling it to death equal to an instant death, so be it. The thing about doing it humanely is the animal wouldn't even know what was going to happen to it, and it won't have anytime to realise it was dying. Something like a cow wouldn't have the brain capacity to be aware what was going on. Ugh, did I even make sence there? It's pretty late and I'm really tired.