Can lobsters feel pain?

kek'd

To let it pass away peacefully.

Swiss are such pussies just throw it in.

I like you.

this. killing the animal "humanly" is incredibly hypocritical

So are you. So you wouldn't care if I boil you alive?

inb4 "humans aren't animals" insanity

No.

This is absolutely true. Let me spell it out for you mathematicians, physicists, etc. who dominate this board now.

Lobsters are not what is known as a "vertebrate". This means they do not have a "central nervous system" like most mammals, fish, and other vertebrates like lizards do. A lobster has a decentralized nervous system, which means it does not have a "brain". It's ability to "think" is shared by different nerves and neurons located in different locations throughout the body. You could say its entire body is it's brain.

As for whether or not they feel "pain", well definitely not the way humans or other vertebrates do, but it's been argued even plants show a "pain response". It would stand to reason that yes they do feel stimuli from their enviornment that they would act to avoid. But do they process that mentally, do they remember that uncomfortable feeling? Studies show that yes they do. Whether this is a conscious feeling they are actively aware of or a simple knee-jerk response, we may never know.

On the contrary, veal (which is baby cow) is chained from birth so as not to develop muscles to keep the meat tender. It's generally believed that the stress and suffering in cows specifically makes their meat taste better, not worse. You could say that "all the shit secreted to their blood" might improve the taste. Of course that probably depends on the person.

Creatures in our kingdom have an avoidance mechanism for damage. Stimulating this mechanism causes the organism to behave in a non-statis manner which can always be interpreted as distress. There is no need to cause an animal distress if it can be avoided, so give it the benefit of the doubt and kill it outright and definitely.

Smaller body just makes the feel all that bigger user...