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I've read a BBC article reporting on findings by Oxford University researchers who say that lobsters don't feel pain when they're boiled alive. They have nerves but the scientists (biologists who are paid to understand things I don't,) say that the peripheral nervous system doesn't really interpret pain, just provoke a fight-or-flight response in the few seconds it takes for them to succumb to the high temperature. I'm pretty sure that fish are more highly evolved than lobsters, but I can't say for sure that they feel pain in the same sense that we do. They're still animals and meat in my mind.