I'm posting this because no one else seems to be.
For those who don't know, balut is a way of cooking eggs with ducklings in them who are almost ready to hatch. Unless the unhatched ducklings have no consciousness whatsoever (which I doubt is the case), this is torture.
I'm pretty much bitching about balut because there's an international food store that has a lot of great stuff you can't find anywhere else nearby, but they also sell this horrible duck egg, so I feel like a fucking ass hole every time I shop there, which isn't very often anymore.
And no, I don't support the live boiling of shellfish either.
