Do Lobsters and Crabs Feel? We’ve Had the Answer for Years | Science and firsthand experience both point to sentient sea life
Do Lobsters and Crabs Feel? We’ve Had the Answer for Years
The way lobster is thrown into boiling water seems the depth of depravity to me. There has to be a more humane way to do it if people must have lobster. It really makes me sick, its just an absolutely evil thing to do to another living thing like that, even setting aside the food arguments
It is very easy to kill crustaceans before boiling them, yes.
Snipping right between the eyes with some kitchen shears cuts their brain in half, killing them instantly
That's to get the pretty red shell. Worked at Red Lobster and we'd flip 'em over and split from the brain down. We'd only boil them alive if a customer requested it. Only saw that once.
This, but also they taste nasty. Why would I want to eat a bottom-feeding sea bug?
I'd caution readers to be aware of our tendency to anthropomorphize animals. Whatever crustaceans feel, it's not remotely close to what we experience as pain. Even "higher" animals like fish lack the part of the brain where pain hits us.
A fish can be swimming around trailing its guts, still eating and mating, chasing rivals. I've seen it in my aquariums. A mammal with a broken bone exhibits clear symptoms of depression, won't eat, fight or fuck. I've had a lot of broken bones myself. Know how you know it's broken? You can't move it.
And consider, even an amoeba will react to negative stimulus. That's baked into evolution.
Having said all that, I have a great deal of empathy for even something silly as a locust. Killed a lot of animals over the years that were hurting and mortally wounded, can't bring myself to ignore suffering.
(Now someone will shout that I don't think animals can feel pain. Go on. Get it over with.)
This is the kind of poisonous thinking that makes articles like this seem like a revelation to people.
Namely the idea that in order for animals to "suffer" it's only valid if it's similar to the way humans suffer.
You have a poisonous mindset, I'm sorry to tell you.
Namely the idea that in order for animals to "suffer" it's only valid if it's similar to the way humans suffer.
They didn't say that at all.
How insane would it be to find out that a living creature with a nervous system cannot know its own suffering?
Hubris
Mostly ignorance and selfishness. The majority avoid connecting the dots whenever the truth is inconvenient. They need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
"God created all for us to enjoy. Why would he instill within it the sense of self with which to suffer?" Is a paraphrased response I've received when posing this question to a few friends.
Ah yes, that good and just world they keep insisting exists
Idk same reason he gave us suffering?