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Originally Posted by MSD
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.
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Hey, that's pretty cool. Either way, I'm sure lobsters would rather not be boiled. Provoking a fight-or-flight response is enough to convince me.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
This thread is proof that TFPers will post about anything.
The title may have well been 'is water wet'. Odds are we would have 3 pages of responses just the same.
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Yes, even down to the Jews saying that water is wet except when Moses parted the Red Sea.
Nice observation.
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