Cause everybody hurts....sometimes.
Posted on 03/27/2009 10:37:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A favored method of preparing fresh crabs is to simply boil them alive. A longstanding related question: Do they feel pain? Yes, researchers now say. Not only do crabs suffer pain, a new study found, but they retain a memory of it (assuming they aren't already dead on your dinner plate). The scientists say its time for new laws to consider the suffering of all crustaceans. The study involved using wires to deliver shocks to the bellies of hermit crabs, which, being hermits, often take up residence in left-behind mollusc shells. The crabs that were shocked scampered out of their shells, "indicating that the experience is unpleasant for them," the scientists concluded; unshocked crabs stayed put. Another test was run to see what would happen if a mild shock was delivered, one just below the threshold that would cause the crabs to leave home. These mildly shocked crabs, along with crabs that had not been shocked, were then offered a new home. The typical reaction: They'd go inspect the new shell. Significantly, those that had been shocked were more likely to pack up and move to the new residence compared to those that hadn't been shocked. "There has been a long debate about whether crustaceans including crabs, prawns and lobsters feel pain," said study researcher Bob Elwood of Queen's University Belfast in the UK.
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As for me, I only eat Jihaddi crustaceans. Those little buggers are only too happy to die, most time they throw themselves into the pot in an attempt to splash you with the scalding water.
I know of some restaurants that will put them in their walk-in freezers. They stay alive a day or two.
Yeah, probably a multi million dollar hunk of pork from the taxpayers.
Uhhh... you’re a little low...45 million +
“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
Very Buddhist of you, though I’m not sure I agree. Life has episodic pain, but equating life to pain...
I thought you may, but some here don’t.
Not me. The Dread Pirate Robert.
Sorry it was a WAG.
“If I believed in aliens, I’d be nervous. :D If I don’t believe in them, they can’t hurt me, right?”
But remember...
The Alien book “To Serve Man”... is a COOKBOOK! — (Old Twilight Zone reference)
Old Bay or J.O.?
Boil half in Old Bay and the other half in J.O.!
“Do you knwo what solent green is?”
Yeah, ground-up Chinese political prisoners.
Solent Green was one of the best movies ever. To bad there aren’t more people who have seen it.
Probably done out of the necessity of fitting a crab in the boats tea kettle, but many of us landlubbers do the same as, supposedly, it tastes better.
And the problem with this is????
ROFL!!! I love that costume!
Heh...I think I saw that one in the original...
But, it’s just a show. B&W. Not real. Fiction.
I’m safe.
And you know this how?
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