28/11/2024
Lobsters are killed either by slicing them in half, or by boiling them alive. Contrary to claims made by seafood producers, lobsters do feel pain, and they suffer immensely.
Most scientists agree that a lobster’s nervous system is quite sophisticated.
Like humans and many other animals, lobsters do have nociceptors - these are the primary system through which pain is created in animals.
Lobsters may even feel more pain than we would in similar situations. “The lobster does not have an autonomic nervous system that puts it into a state of shock when it is harmed. I think the lobster is in a great deal of pain from being cut open [and] feels all the pain until its nervous system is destroyed” says invertebrate zoologist Jaren G. Horsley.
Image with kind permission from Vegan for the Animals. f.t.a