Mod Note: This is a split thread from Boiling Crabs & Lobsters. Boiling animals alive is cruel. Killing crabs and lobsters immediately before cooking is very easy, and avoids unnecessary pain. Why not do it?
I'm not sure they have emotions or verifiable pain centers, which would negate the concept of "pleasure" and "pain". They are mostly stimulus and response. Besides, they are just big grasshoppers that live in the ocean. Call me evil, but I don't give a shit of bugs feel a little pain or not. ~String
How the hell should I know. I can't afford lobster. I saw someone on the TV doing it. It involved a big pin.
Of course lobbies have feelings so don't boil them. You put them into a state of suspended animation before cooking... Put 'em in the fridge for a while. This shuts them down painlessly. Now, if you want them to taste their best, boiling is well down the list. Lightly grilled on the Barbie with a smear of fresh garlic and a dash of lime. Or sashimi... Yummo!
Is string is wrong about lobsters being big grasshoppers? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Grasshopper Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Lobster I may have got these the wrong way round. They just look so similar.
what did you think emotions and pain centers are? Stimulus and response mechanism of course! Lobsters do scream when boiled alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ei6RpZ9gSk
Grasshoppers, Crabs, Lobster, etc. are all related as Arthropods, i.e. with hard exo-skeletons. Some people call em "bugs", which is a generic term for anything small and crawly (including slugs or worms, which are not arthropods.
Everything with an exoskeleton is a "bug" to me. They are simplistic creatures, with a brain smaller than pea. Stimulus and response. Little more. No emotions. Just sex and food. Drop'em in a pot of boiling water and cook the buggers. Yum. ~String
Yes, we suck for not caring about the non-existent pain that a emotion-less bug doesn't even feel while it gets boiled in water. ~String
It's doubtful that you would know what they feel and not. And the fact that you don't see it as important whether they feel pain or not, is rather astounding since it would mean a change in legislation in what concerns animal rights. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29915025/
Those findings, the ones you posted, are also very much in doubt http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6968620/ns/technology_and_science-science/ I'll continue gorging myself on their boiled flesh until we know for sure! ~STring