3 Lobsters feel pain. ... Zoologists have found that lobsters and other crustaceans don't have this ability to go into 'shock' so when they are exposed to cruel procedures (such as having their claws or 'tail-meat' torn off or being boiled alive) — theirsuffering is prolonged. Are lo...
Opponents of lobsters and crabs being boiled alive say there are now more humane killing methods. There are also ways of stunning the animals into unconsciousness that have little impact on food preparation.
Lobsters can still be boiled aliveDAMIEN HENDERSON
Anyone who has ever boiled a lobster alive can attest that, when dropped into scalding water, lobsters whip their bodies wildly and scrape the sides of the pot in a desperate attempt to escape. In the journal Science, researcher Gordon Gunter described this method of killing lobsters as “unne...
Call it a victory for the cephalopod and decapod lobby (itcould preventlobsters from being boiled alive in the U.K.), but it’s also true that the court of public opinion already backed this more liberal definition of sentience. The welfare bill, whichwill halt most animal exports, wa...
most of the controversy surrounds the lobsters and crabs. They are usually killed for food preparation by either being boiled alive or physically torn apart while alive. Both methods, were they to happen to a person or a dog, even a chicken — would be unthinkable to a reasonable person. ...
“I don’t know how many lobsters are boiled in Switzerland per year, but it’s probably quite a small amount compared with the billions upon billions of crustaceans that are used each year in the human food chain,” he says. Related articleA lobster cruise: The luckiest catch in Maine ...