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To: Cat loving Texan
An animal?

Classification
Lobsters are classified in the phyllum Arthropoda (which also includes shrimp, crabs, barnacles, and insects.) ...

Nervous System
The lobsters nervous system is very primitive. In fact it is most similar to the nervous system of an insect. Neither insects nor lobsters have brains. ...

(From The Lobster Institute)
25 posted on 06/13/2006 7:46:32 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Neither insects nor lobsters have brains. ...

Huh? Does this mean they're Democrats?

37 posted on 06/13/2006 8:05:23 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Calvin Locke

They do have brains actually, I think the marketing folks at The Lobster Institute are streching the truth so more people won't feel guilty about eating our yummy little friends. They are small and primative, but they are a "brain". Food tastes better when you know that it suffered.


91 posted on 06/16/2006 8:58:51 AM PDT by stacytec (Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
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