Do lobsters feel pain?

[Purplehood]

I am in favor of hunting. Let me get that out right up front. But I needed to say that to preface what I say next....

I don't see how any pain a lobster might feel is even an issue. I can't imagine that being shot through the heart and lungs is without pain for the animal we shot while hunting, and yet we don't concern ourselves with these things. As anyone who has ever shot a hog or a white tail knows, and animal can sometimes drop dead instantly upon being hit, or it can run 50 or 100 yards and die more slowly. We try to make it quick, but we're not always successful, and not much sleep is lost over whether an animal drops dead right there, or whether it runs before expiring - so long as we don't have to tramp around too long trying to find it.

A lobster dropped in a pot of boiling water certainly feels something like pain. But it's pain is also over within a second or two, which is less time than we usually expect it to take when shooting a large mammal. It can take longer than 2 seconds for a steer or a hog in an abattoir to die. So I ask, why do we even worry about it? If we consume animals, then pain is an unavoidable part of that consumption. The only way to truly avoid it is to not eat it.

I choose to eat it, and I accept all the consequences that come with eating it, including the probability of some pain for the animal I consume. If I couldn't live with that, I would be a vegetarian.

+1

You do realize if you become a vegetarian, there are studies that show plants are affected by you stealing their offspring and eating them. :)

I can hear it now, "Peas don't do that!".

[The Annoyed Man]

I am in favor of hunting. Let me get that out right up front. But I needed to say that to preface what I say next....

I don't see how any pain a lobster might feel is even an issue. I can't imagine that being shot through the heart and lungs is without pain for the animal we shot while hunting, and yet we don't concern ourselves with these things. As anyone who has ever shot a hog or a white tail knows, and animal can sometimes drop dead instantly upon being hit, or it can run 50 or 100 yards and die more slowly. We try to make it quick, but we're not always successful, and not much sleep is lost over whether an animal drops dead right there, or whether it runs before expiring - so long as we don't have to tramp around too long trying to find it.

A lobster dropped in a pot of boiling water certainly feels something like pain. But it's pain is also over within a second or two, which is less time than we usually expect it to take when shooting a large mammal. It can take longer than 2 seconds for a steer or a hog in an abattoir to die. So I ask, why do we even worry about it? If we consume animals, then pain is an unavoidable part of that consumption. The only way to truly avoid it is to not eat it.

I choose to eat it, and I accept all the consequences that come with eating it, including the probability of some pain for the animal I consume. If I couldn't live with that, I would be a vegetarian.

+1

You do realize if you become a vegetarian, there are studies that show plants are affected by you stealing their offspring and eating them. :)

I can hear it now, "Peas don't do that!".

Well, there is little or no chance of my becoming a vegetarian. To the peas: I CAN'T HEAR YOU ..... LA LA LA LA LA NA NA NANNY NA NA!

[terryg]

I am in favor of hunting. Let me get that out right up front. But I needed to say that to preface what I say next....

I don't see how any pain a lobster might feel is even an issue. I can't imagine that being shot through the heart and lungs is without pain for the animal we shot while hunting, and yet we don't concern ourselves with these things. As anyone who has ever shot a hog or a white tail knows, and animal can sometimes drop dead instantly upon being hit, or it can run 50 or 100 yards and die more slowly. We try to make it quick, but we're not always successful, and not much sleep is lost over whether an animal drops dead right there, or whether it runs before expiring - so long as we don't have to tramp around too long trying to find it.

A lobster dropped in a pot of boiling water certainly feels something like pain. But it's pain is also over within a second or two, which is less time than we usually expect it to take when shooting a large mammal. It can take longer than 2 seconds for a steer or a hog in an abattoir to die. So I ask, why do we even worry about it? If we consume animals, then pain is an unavoidable part of that consumption. The only way to truly avoid it is to not eat it.

I choose to eat it, and I accept all the consequences that come with eating it, including the probability of some pain for the animal I consume. If I couldn't live with that, I would be a vegetarian.

[Tamie]

According to the video, boiling a lobster quickly is more cruel than freezing it for 20 minutes. How does she know?

[anygunanywhere]

Some things are meant to eat, and some things are meant to be eaten. Sometimes things that eat other things are eaten.

I consider myself as an apex predator, meant to consume vast quantities of various animal species from land and sea.

Whether or not the animal I consume felt pain or not has never mattered. Whenevr I actually was involved in dispatching the animal I tried my best to do so humanely as possible. That is our responsibility.

If a lobster ever manages to grab my arm in a reverse hold and toss me into the pot instead of vice versa, power to it. I guarantee I will scream like a twelve year old girl and it will be heard as the lobster tries to hold the lid on the pot.

Anygun

[tauruspt145]

A good looking lady who likes to freeze then stab lobsters to death I would rather be dropped in lava then frozen and stabbed to death.