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To: Cat loving Texan

Um, Lobsters do have nerves and do feel pain. They just don't react to temperature-based pain the way that you do (aversion response).


17 posted on 06/13/2006 7:35:56 AM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Kirkwood

"They just don't react to temperature-based pain the way that you do"

I pitty you if you don't curl up their tail and hold it that way until they quit kicking when you stick their heads in the water.

I saw an idiot just drop one in a pot one time and the thing almost emptied the pot of boiling water with it's tail.


73 posted on 06/13/2006 12:45:04 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Kirkwood

No, lobsters do not feel pain. Their central ganglion is rudimentary at best. I spent 2 years studying lobster neural anatomy at Woods Hole, and wrote an even half-dozen peer-reviewed papers on the subject.

And then I became a lobsterman!


95 posted on 06/18/2006 5:11:58 PM PDT by capt.P (Hold Fast! Strong Hand Uppermost!)
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