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Old 07-20-2004, 04:26 PM  
garett
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Originally posted by Ross
To be honest tho cruelty to cats is a little different to eating a lobster. One being lobsters feel nothing when cooked alive. They die quickly and also I remember reading something about them not feeling the pain.....Anyway, eating cats - in Scotland is unheard of - is totally different to Lobsters
This is way off topic. But that's actually a myth that lobsters don't feel pain. In fact, one very important thing to note is that lobsters don't have a shock system that will turn off pain receptors like humans do when experiencing extreme trauma .. so a lobster, in theory, feels more pain, or least for a longer period of time, being boiled alive than a human would.

It's recommended that chefs take a knife and jab it into the back of the lobsters neck to quickly and humanely kill it before putting it in the water.
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