Lobsters do feel pain - all animals do.
Next time you are cooking, I dare you to dip your finger in boiling water for even a couple of seconds. You probably won't be able to - because it's excruciating.
Yet, most people have no problem dropping a live creature into a pot full of boiling water for 20-30 mins because 'it tastes so good'.
Frankly I could never live with myself if I put an innocent creature through such unbearable agony - yet most people have no problem with it. Why is this and will it ever change?
Next time you are cooking, I dare you to dip your finger in boiling water for even a couple of seconds. You probably won't be able to - because it's excruciating.
Yet, most people have no problem dropping a live creature into a pot full of boiling water for 20-30 mins because 'it tastes so good'.
Frankly I could never live with myself if I put an innocent creature through such unbearable agony - yet most people have no problem with it. Why is this and will it ever change?
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I have problems with this practice. There are more humane ways to kill them off than to drop them in boiling water while they are alive. I've been sorely tempted to 'liberate' every last lobster in the tank at a seafood place. But honestly, what would that do other than get me in a lot of trouble? Perhaps land me in the 'odd news' section of the AP, but that is hardly one of my life goals.
Strangely enough, I do eat meat. I just can't eat anything that looks like an animal, has toes, has a thumb, etc, etc. The rules I set for myself for meat eating make me basically a vegetarian. It's the 'oh, yuck!' or 'how terrible!' factor for me, however, rather than a 'save the animals' kind of thing. I tend to avoid meat products I know are produced in particularly cruel ways and I buy my cheeses, etc, only from small producers to minimize the suffering. Small local producers tend to treat their animals much better than the large producers. We need extremists on both sides of an issue so the rest of us can find a middle ground. So while I do occasionally eat meat, I also give generously to animal rights causes and groups.
Why do some peple have no problem with this practice? Well, they lack compassion/don't care is my first guess. My second would be they simply don't realize ALL animals do feel pain and do suffer. Many people rather wrongly think that fish and crustaceans cannot feel pain. The ability to feel pain is one of the requirements for survival as a species. It's a warning signal to the brain, no matter how tiny and primitive that brain may be, that there is something dreadfully wrong. Any successful species will have the ability to feel pain. Where some people got such a silly idea that highly successful species such as fish and crustaceans cannot feel pain is simply beyond my comprehension.
Strangely enough, I do eat meat. I just can't eat anything that looks like an animal, has toes, has a thumb, etc, etc. The rules I set for myself for meat eating make me basically a vegetarian. It's the 'oh, yuck!' or 'how terrible!' factor for me, however, rather than a 'save the animals' kind of thing. I tend to avoid meat products I know are produced in particularly cruel ways and I buy my cheeses, etc, only from small producers to minimize the suffering. Small local producers tend to treat their animals much better than the large producers. We need extremists on both sides of an issue so the rest of us can find a middle ground. So while I do occasionally eat meat, I also give generously to animal rights causes and groups.
Why do some peple have no problem with this practice? Well, they lack compassion/don't care is my first guess. My second would be they simply don't realize ALL animals do feel pain and do suffer. Many people rather wrongly think that fish and crustaceans cannot feel pain. The ability to feel pain is one of the requirements for survival as a species. It's a warning signal to the brain, no matter how tiny and primitive that brain may be, that there is something dreadfully wrong. Any successful species will have the ability to feel pain. Where some people got such a silly idea that highly successful species such as fish and crustaceans cannot feel pain is simply beyond my comprehension.
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