PSA: Crabs and Lobsters Feel Pain

[Yuzu]

For decades there has been a myth that crabs and other shellfish cannot feel pain. This has justified barbaric behavior like boiling them alive and cutting off their legs while they are still alive. Humans inflict unimaginable pain on hundreds of billions of other animals without a second thought, yet whine when they experience the smallest discomfort or inconvenience.

https://www.earth.com/news/crabs-lobsters-crustaceans-feel-pain-calls-for-immediate-ban-on-boiling-them-alive/

https://www.science.org/content/article/crabs-feel-pain

https://animalclock.org/

[NW/RL]

Messaggio originale di JPOW:

Humans inflict unimaginable pain on hundreds of billions of other animals without a second thought, yet whine when they experience the smallest discomfort or inconvenience.

Obviously

[Disgruntled Cuttlefish]

Sure, I agree with the point of the initial post I guess (if it's true, I didn't click the links yet), which I wouldn't doubt at all. Not one bit. However, it's difficult to say that shellfish and animals like that have the same amount of awareness that mammals and birds have. Same with the crazies who compare fish to mammals and birds, sometimes its folks who don't even care about animals but just are pushing that "species bias" BS like how Neil DeGrasse Tyson expresses. Not saying OP is suggesting that or anything.

[Lime]

Messaggio originale di ghost:

Prove to me that they feel pain, you can't. They only looked at behaviors and chemicals. Worthless fake science.

your entire post is a result of behaviours and chemicals, but nobodies doubting you can feel pain.

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Messaggio originale di Lime:

Messaggio originale di ghost:

Prove to me that they feel pain, you can't. They only looked at behaviors and chemicals. Worthless fake science.

your entire post is a result of behaviours and chemicals, but nobodies doubting you can feel pain.

Maybe you should doubt it, because there's no proof. It's just an assumption.

[A͓̽p͓̽o͓̽t͓̽h͓̽e͓̽o]

At the end they are food to us.

[Fake]

Messaggio originale di A͓̽p͓̽o͓̽t͓̽h͓̽e͓̽o:

At the end they are food to us.

Everything is food. . . . if you're brave enough.

[Angel]

Not going to lie, I knew they felt pain. It's just that they are also delicious.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

yeah but they taste great.