[drt1]

What next, pain killers for fish bait, humane fly traps, etc.?

[Izzy Dunne]

dropping one in a pot of boiling water is tantamount to torture.

Yeah, but they take FOREVER to cook if you drop them in lukwarm water.

[TXBSAFH]

They do not feel pain, particularly if you have the heat up on the water.

[kjam22]

suggests lobsters and other invertebrates such as snails and worms probably don’t suffer even if lobsters do tend to thrash in boiling water....

Pretty funny statement. It's saying "don't believe what you see and observe. Just listen to what I say"

[TRY ONE]

PETA:

1) Poor, poor lobsters feel pain when cooking!

2) An 8 1/2 month fetus does NOT feel pain when speared in the head with scissors, then had its brains sucked out!

[L98Fiero]

Life is pain and Lobster tastes good.

[JCEccles]

Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin has written a book that in one chapter offers an intriguing look into the the question of animal pain, based on current research. She takes care to distinguish between lower-brain reflexive pain, which most if not all animals have, and frontal cortex subjective pain which it appears that most animals either lack entirely (such as fish) or have to only a limited degree compared to humans with their massively developed forebrains.

What animal activists are doing is projecting their own intense human feelings of subjective pain and suffering onto lobsters and crabs, which are essentially primitive brain stems attached to claws and feelers. This is an emotional argument, not a rational one.

[OldSmaj]

...dropping one (lobster) in a pot of boiling water is tantamount to torture.

Hey, the louder it screams, the better it tastes, right?

Hey, PETA, I don't care!

[eclectic]

Of course they feel pain, but the immense satisfaction they must derive from being consumed by a higher intellect should offset their suffering

[Deguello]

Some Researchers were studying the habits of insects and focused on the grasshopper.

They pressed a button and a loud horn would sound and the grasshopper would jump.

One-by-one, they removed the legs from the grasshopper and then pressed the button for the horn and each time the subject would jump.

When the last leg was removed and the horn blasted, the grasshopper just laid there. They tried again to reafirm the reaction and it was they same...no movement.

They concluded that when all the legs of the grasshopper are removed, it goes deaf.

[Jack of all Trades]

I'll bet it stings a little bit when you lay one on its back, split in in half and fill its guts with stuffing though.

So what? It's a giant edible sea-bug.

[Terriergal]

What next, pain killers for fish bait, humane fly traps, etc.?

Probably. And then after that it's pain killers for lobsters that have the secondary effect of poisoning the omnivorous humans that dare to eat them. Peta's problem with meateaters would then be solved!

[FormerACLUmember]

Off topic horrible joke: What goes "woof, woof, woof, boom."

Answer: A toy poodle in the microwave.

(Three PETA lurkers just had strokes.)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hurray! Now I won't feel guilty when I order my "Happy Family" Chinese take-out which is chock-full of all sorts of sea-faring critters! (Not that I did in the first place...)

I wish I could afford lobster. I'd eat it every day just to p*ss PETA off. I used to live on the beach (literally) in San Diego, CA. I've boiled alive my share of soft-shell crab, so I've done my part! ;)