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Old 07-20-2004, 04:35 PM  
Ross
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Originally posted by garett
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.
Oh right, thanks for putting me right.

Sucks then that this happens. I personally don't eat sea food.
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