Sooner or later the Animal Rights nut bars are going to grab this and run at the Lobster industry.... well lets get it straight. I DON'T CARE!!! They can scream all they want when I drop them in a pot of boiling water I'm still going to 'pig out' & enjoy every mouthful. Now 3 minutes in a microwave is entirely different ... thats just plain cruel.
Blow for fans of boiled lobster: crustaceans feel pain, study says
Sensitive chefs, avert your eyes now. An investigation into the most contentious of kitchen dilemmas has reached its unpalatable conclusion: lobsters do feel pain.
The question of crustaceans' ability to experience pain has become an unlikely obsession for some scientists. Over the past few decades, the question has been batted back and forth as fresh evidence comes to light. Two years ago, Norwegian researchers declared the answer was a firm no, claiming the animals' nervous systems were not complex enough.
The latest salvo, published in New Scientist today, comes from Robert Elwood, an expert in animal behaviour at Queen's University, Belfast. With help from colleagues, he set about finding an answer by daubing acetic acid on to the antennae of 144 prawns.
Immediately, the creatures began grooming and rubbing the affected antenna, while leaving untouched ones alone, |
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