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  • absolutely NO clue on how to cook a lobster! and you cant cook an alrady dead lobster,,,unless you really want to be very sick!

  • its said while the lobster is still alive...

  • YOu forgot the water -.-'

  • the crab would pinch you if you tried to rip it arm off.Just buy a dead lobster.You are inhumane to rip it off.RUDE!

  • WTF That guy ripped the lobster apart like it was no damn big deal. DAMN!

  • Doesn't rubber bands contain chemicals that leech out when heated?

  • Lobsters scream, or so I was told by my grandmother lol.

  • WTF why does everybody keep the rubber bands on when boiling lobster?!?!?

  • that's not how you cook a lobster

  • Ok to all you "animals have feelings" people, do you go around looking for videos on how to cook lobster just to shove your agenda down people's throats. Animals eat other animals alive in the wild, so are you going to go preach to them about how cruel it is? Go find a how to video on vegetables, and avoid the others.

  • Wasn't I stupid for not expecting a bunch of paragraphs about animals feelings

  • Even though I don't like meat and rarely eat it, I'm not one of those 'activists'. Eating meat is fine, it's human nature and I understand the appeal even though it doesn't appeal to me. But this, people, is pure animal cruelty! I don't care if it 'tastes better', you can't do that to an animal! End its suffering before pulling it apart! >:D

  • @bltsdsubbie Do you think that any other animal of this world would stop and think about the feelings of the animal it's about to eat? NO! They hunt and eat LIVE prey. We, last I checked, are the only animal species of this world who cooks its food. Sure, I cringed when I saw a live lobster being ripped apart, but a bigger part of me was like "That'll be good with butter"! Get over your self-righteous views. I denounce animal cruelty but this is cooking as it's been done for years.

  • @Chulva How is this being self-righteous? And of course I know animals eat meat and so do humans! I thought I made that clear enough! I'm just saying, put it in ice water or something so it goes to sleep before you rip it apart! I'm not saying people should stop eating lobster. And did you know that stress affects the taste too? And the 'it's been done for years' is a lame excuse. Things change.

  • great now you kave a lobster that taste like rubber bands

  • GIVE IT A FUCKEN REST!!! THIS IS A HOW TO COOK A LOBSTER VIDEO!!! Do you think the chef was thinkin'..."I'm gonna try to torture this lobster as much as I can!" No!!! He just took it apart and threw it in the boiling water. Done. We're human, we need to eat! 4 seconds of pain the humane way or 9 seconds of pain the way he did it. I don't even think the lobster fucken cared how he died!!!

    GIVE IT A FUCKEN REST!!!

  • man that is not the way to do it ....man how can you kill these animals pulling the claws and the tails without boiling them...you have to cook them as a whole...man you guys are disgusting.... jeez...you're a disgrace to cooking lobster... go f**k yourself

  • @kagome2690 I know. But still other place do that.

  • he just tore it apart alive wtf

  • THIS IS SO CRUEL! you're suppose to put them in warm water until they fall asleep then turn up the heat! If you did that they wouldn't feel a thing.

  • My mom used to work at a restraint and the cookers cooked live lobster's and they put theem in the scorching boiling water and as the put them in their the lobster's screamed so loud, it sounded like a kettle full of steam it was a horrifying sound. Not to mension as they boiled them they tried to climb out so their claws were like graping the sides of the pot, and they scratch in the pot wich was really gross because they were just scratching the metal pot. It was pretty redonculous

  • @LadyGagaLover86

    That really was steam, not them screaming,...

  • CRUSTACEANS DO FEEL PAIN - RECENT SCIENTIFIC STUDY SHOWS: Just GOOGLE -> msnbc lobsters and crabs feel pain OR Just GOOGLE -> cnn crabs feel and remember pain OR Just GOOGLE -> guardian crustaceans feel pain OR Just GOOGLE -> the straight dope lobsters feel pain PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT BEFORE WRITING THEY DO NOT FEEL PAIN! PLEASE DO NOT STEAM, BOIL OR GRILL THEM ALIVE... WATCH MY VIDEO THAT INFORMS ABOUT THE MOST HUMANE WAY OF KILLING CRUSTACEANS.
  • OH NO THERYE BOILING THE ROCK LOBSTER NO!!!! U FOOLZ U FOOLZ!

  • Can you replace the lobster with coworkers?

  • oh good ripem up live basterds

  • you will need:

    A lobster

    NO SHIT YOU NEED A LOBSTER, WHAT ELSE WILL YOU BOIL, YOUR PENIS?

  • @thatsnazzyappleguy LOL, so true...

  • I agree with the guy underneath me please like this and the other guy

  • did he just break apart the lobster while it was still alive? cruel :(

  • @NubianBarbie91 so what

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    ive seen tons of "how to " vids from how cast..wonder if they will make a vid on my topic xD

  • CRUSTASTUN! This kills crustaceans in 5 secs with electrical shock...Please do not torture animals like this any more...They are beautiful and do not have to die like this...Do not be evil please just to eat a meal...These animals are showing how humane we are...and obviously if we boil them, steam them to death, or grill them while they are alive...it is so sad...please have some love in your heart....at least give them the chance to die without pain...BUY "CRUSTASTUN" PLEASE....

  • That's a sick recipe.

  • to all you douche talking about inhumane, how about watching this and tell me which is more inhumane. /watch?v=YfEKjrF_5XQ if you kill something to eat then it is alright. those fuckers that killed all millions of bisons back in the day for sport and left the indians to starve, those people can go to hell.

  • Tearing it apart when it's still alive? If you do that, I'm gonna tell you, you are going to hell...

  • Is it possible to cook a lobster when it's already dead? I never try lobster before, but I'm not capable enough to throw it alive in the boiled water. I love meat but when it doesn't move when I'm frying or boiling it.

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  • It is kind of messed up pulling it apart alive. The best way personally to me is to smash its head so its instant and the lobster doesn't tense up when it hits the boiling water.

  • He fucked that lobster up... i thought it was dead for a second ripped its claws off and pulled it apart in half with his bare hands. I'm so hungry for lobster right now.

  • ummm did they pull that thing apart while it was still ALIVE!? WTF!?

  • lobsters need the same rights as normal animals get. give them a painless death at least.

  • Haha i need a stovetop to cook a lobster

  • Never seen Lobster ripped apart and then cooked. Interesting video but I prefer to cook them whole then separate. Little more humane that way.

  • Man shellfish have it tough in this dude's kitchen! Reminds me of Judge Dredd where the robot rips that guy's arms off

  • you have to bite the head off THEN tear off the claws and tail. so the lobster doesn't feel any pain while you are tearing it apart. it's more humane

  • dude, plants are living creatures too. eating without killing something is unavoidable... try eating rocks

  • Sorry but KILLING that lobster is animal abuse! You can't just rip its head off like that because that will kill it and plus it has feelings like all animals.

  • @JesusChristRulesYOU HAHAHAHAHA

  • animal torture >.< theyre still alive and u kill em ripping them apart!

  • @smellycathome That's the only way really...

  • Rip off the claws While the lobster is still alive- WAIT WTF?

  • @lopy666 LOL thats what I said...Also When cooking a Lobster I never heard of ripping it apart!

  • im a meat eater but this is just inhumane. there are humane ways to kill animals

  • :0 wtf those lobsters must feel aloot of pain!!!!! can they kill it?

  • @KILLJOY341 Nope, that's the only way with out ruining the meat...

  • @Peonardon no u have to cut the back of the lobsters head dummy

  • subdue them on ice then chuck 'em in salted boiling water whole, 8 min for 5or6 in a pot that size shown, hes cruel, stupid chef

  • My mom makes great lobster soupppp

  • I find it easier to freeze the lobster first and then cook them whole but thats just me.

  • yo that lobster got owned dog.

  • this video is completely wrong...

    you don't twist it's claw off while it's alive? if you're not going to kill it alive, at least boil it alive..

  • lol nothing like having your torso and hands twisted off while you're alive, and the correct way is khonsuthecat's way

  • are yuo mental?

  • Take Lobster apart while its still living is like a cannibal removing your limbs before he eats you alive... whats wrong with these people lobster is meant to be boiled whole

  • No way would I EVER take the lobster apart. Just throw the whole lobster into boiling water. Boil for 8 min + add 1 min for every lb of meat. So (2) 1.5lb lobsters would take 11 mins. This includes the time for the water to come back to a boil.

  • My mate just told me (hes a Professional chef and trained in Paris - which i guess means hes good?) that this video is utter bollocks

    Lobster is cooked whole, in boiling salt water and time is dependant purely on the size / weight

    From a personal point of view and even a meat eater I think pulling a living creature apart, and throwing it back on the sink, is even more "sadistic" than killing it quickly in boiling water.

  • @chapmasi thats what i thought too i think it is inhuman to do something like that just think about if they pulled of your arms and well we dont have a tail so.... one of our legs i guess

  • @chapmasi Watch other videos where they cook lobster whole in boiling water and there's still people complaining that it wasn't humane. There's no pleasing you animal-coat-protesting, PETA-participating, animal-loving vegans!

  • @chapmasi yeah i agree with that i read somewhere you can put them to sleep in the freezer then put them in a pot of boiling water with the lid on is that any better?

  • @iceyqueeen22 Yea that's what they do in his restaurant.

  • @chapmasi As a chef in training I can back this up. Its best to throw it in live.Unlike humans, lobsters have a very small nervous system, so they won't feel much. And breaking it apart causes water to get into the shell, not only getting rid of all the good juice and flavor in the meat, but also getting water in the shell and making eating it an even bigger mess. It's best to take a live lobster and simply boil it whole in hot water without seasoning.

  • "remove the claws and tail. twist them off while the lobster is still alive"

    this is why i don't eat lobster

  • @80smoviesguy i know right , i cant bring myself to do it ..... and this is completly wrong you can just boil them live without cutting shit off , and rubber bands add rubery flavour.

  • @80smoviesguy An uncle of mine is a chef who quickly kills them by jamming a knife right through their head, so they're at least dead before getting boiled - but I'd still never eat it, I don't like the taste and I'm a vegetarian XD

  • DAAAHHH DAHHH DAHH STOP RIGHT THERE WOMAN, YOU FUCKING SUCK AT BOILING LOBSTERS. Correct way.

    You will need a pot, salt, water, a stove (duh), a lobster, and patience.

    Bring the salt water to a boil, and drop it in!

    You wanna let the lobster boil in the water 10-15 minutes/per 1.5 lb of lobster, to my understanding, after this is done you are to insert a knife where the tail starts and cut it through the middle and pre-crack the knuckle and the pincers, (optional) serve with hot melted butter

  • Wrong, wrong, wrong! No seasonings - no decapitating of lobsters!!

    Take a large pot with enough room to cook 4 chicken lobsters -those are 1 - 1 1/4 pound lobsters.

    Fill pot about 1/3 with water and put the live lobsters into it. Put a lid on the pot, turn heat to about med-high. This will put the lobsters to ''sleep'' before they cook.. Cooking should take about 10 -15 mins from the time the water gets hot..it should not get to a rolling boil. Lobsters are done when they are bright red.

  • LOL tyvm i love you too!

    but still..you make yourself look more like an e-thug than a real badass...

  • dude you make yourself look more like a wimp in real life than a tough guy

  • SERIOUSLY.

  • You're 19 years of age and you can't spell, you're trying to start an argument with someone on youtube and you're lying about the size of your "ock" under a video about how to cook a lobster.

    GET LAID DUDE.

  • Is what you're saying ment to make me laugh? Because it worked. Judging by your spelling, you're not old enough to get your dick hard anyway, so I won't take anyone offence about what you said about my mum.

  • I'm not with PETA; but this is f**king disgusting. Tearing the thing apart when it's still alive; how the hell can people be that cruel.

  • "Twist them off while the lobster is still alive"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WTF is wrong with you. Kill the fucking lobster before you start breaking it apart you cruel idiot.

  • ah?? How are you supposed to break them like that while they are still alive...? Isn't it difficult...?

  • Wow that was really messed up. I'm mad at how jolly the voice over lady said "twist them off while the lobster is still alive"

  • it does seem inhumane but lobsters have no cerebral cortex, so they cant feel any pain

  • jasn, what a load of B.S. You know absolute zero about that. I guess some ignorant idiot told you that, and you just chose to believe it blindly without ever trying to see if there are any facts to support it not feeling pain.

  • why not let them burn to death ?

  • why not marinate them in sheep shit or human sperm?

  • This is pure foolishness. You cook them whole, without the goddamn rubber bands.

  • this must be the womens guide lol

  • lol

  • Dismembering it while it's still alive. Sounds good to me! (if you're a cruel bastard).

  • I'm not bothered about killing animals, I've shot my share of rats and birds and I love meat and fish. But ripping a lobster to peices and slinging it into a bowl while its still alive. Thats not kool.

  • your right hats not cool thats amazing

  • I want to add this.... NOOOOOO this thing is wrong. I live in New England and have lobster all the time and you dont need to break the lobster into a million pieces and cook it separately, you cook it hole.

  • haha typo. Not hole, WHOLE.

  • I agree with you on that comment. You do boil lobster whole. I would instead of using water, I use Gatorade with seasoning, like Old Bay, and bay leaves.

  • Ok,

    I generally do not comment on much of anything but this video is pure nonsense. Cooking a lobster depends ENTIRELY on weight. It is 9 minutes per POUND, and 3 minutes every pound after that... SILLINESS THIS IS, AND TOTAL MISINFORMATION. Oh yeah, and all yo gotta add to the water is a tiny bit of oil and vinegar.

  • poor lobster.

  • How come?

    Animal die all the time without the help of humans.

  • kantosquirtle.... your ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! We should stop eating animals altogether. And I say we don's stop there! Lets make all the animals stop eating each other, even though its natural for them to do so as well as us. Dumb ass. If you are for not eating animals, your for the destruction of this planet.

  • People obviously don't understand the way nature works. If you don't want to eat meat, good for you...but stopping carnivorous animals from hunting for meat is obsured. How are Lionesses going to feed their cubs?? Grow potatoes and whip up a stew??

  • @XFunkWizardX nice

  • What the hell! RIp a lobster apart while its still alive and the leave it on the counter? Come on man. If you are gonna kill something at least, try not to let it suffer Yeah. Rip my ass and my limbs of and leave me here to reflect a coupple of minutes, life is good when you pause and think for a moment. Sick man.

  • Oh ya and your priests rape kids what can u say about that? Men of the church rape lil boys not even girls it makes Christianity seem organized and it is an organized religion it is an opiate of the masses u r brainwashed I've been to churches and u guys call Muslims and Jews non beilevers who need to be coverted? And in their religion it states to respect and love other people And religions?!? go rape a child

  • I can say that there has been sexual sin within the Church since Paul's Epistles. Christian truth is NOT disproved by a failure to act upon it. Yes, Christians are bound to spread the Gospel to our brethren as act of love and charity. Why is that wrong?

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  • are you retarded?

  • They eat lobster.......

  • To prepare a lobster you will need:

    -A live lobster.

    -A warped coscience.

    -An insensitivity to animal suffering.

    -A disrespect towards God's design.

    Regarding the comment by Raadzilla, I was not aware that pain needed to be made manifest by tears to be sincere, or that all animals are to be judged by an inept understanding of a shark's eating habits. Thank you for enlightening me. I'll go torment a fuxking lobster now.

    I am not a vegetarian, but I am a Christian.

  • hahahahahhahahahaha thats fucking gey

  • Oh please go read your bible. What do u call the crusades? People killing people because their not Christian? I call that warped CONSCIENCE go fuck yourself and eat some damn lobster u tree hugger

  • I will read my Bible tonight, thank you! I call the Crusades very unfortunate, and indeed the result of a warped conscience. Yet that certain Christians are immoral in no way undermines the authority of the Holy Church. Why would it?

    I'm not terribly fond of "damn lobster," really.

  • lolz treehugers are gay

  • Every video I've seen so far about preparing lobster has comments from idiots trying to shove their vegetarian lifestyle down people's throats. It's like they don't expect people to get angry at their comments. I'm going to eat delicious lobster and there isn't a goddamn thing you asshats can do about it to convince me to stop! :)

  • omfg i so totally agree with u i hate how vegetarians try to force belief

  • Fuck ya!!!! Honestly slaughter is disturbing but we would all starve u dumbasses!!! Grow up be human u gotta do what u gotta do to survive and u can't be basing things all on god u fucking idiot

  • President Obama is a super Christian but that nigga prob eats lobster every night!!! He doesn't give a fuck how it's killed as long as it's fuxking delicious ... I wonder if not having sex till marriage has something to do withu being so uptight about lobsters? Maybe ur dating a lobster?? I d k but u gotta shut the fuck up about lobster death because it's quite amusing that's why u ALL watched this u all wanted to know how to kill a lobster so shut the fuck up

  • To kill a lobster ur gonna need

    1. A big dick/ or a dank vagina

    2. A chainsaw

    3. And a nice jacuzzi for the lobster

  • I have critiques of Mr. Obama as a Christian, but those may pass. Again, to demonstrate that one Christian is immoral does not invalidate Christianity. Yes, my love of lobsters and love of chastity stems from the same source: my love for God's design, which does not place crustaceans or women as toys.

    I watched this video because I wanted to know just what it looked like, for the same reason people visit regions of abject poverty, not to enjoy it. Do not judge inner motives.

  • If we would all starve without meat, how do vegetarians survive so long?

  • O___________O"

    That...poor...lobster....

  • this is bullshit. dont follow their "method."

  • ok: thats not how u boil a lobster. That is how u dismember and make a fancy schmancy rinding meal out of lobster. Being from Portland, maine and my roomate works the wharf when the lobster boats come in we ate lobster 3 times a week. U dont need to rip the lobster in pieces while its alive. U simply place the lobster in the pot and boil it till red. after, pluck the tenticles, crack that shit open and enjoy the tasty lobster! melted butter or garlic for added flavor

  • Did......he.....just rip apart a live lobster? That's a little sick. That's just one of the list of reasons I don't like lobster

  • lobsters are disgusting. jsut eat fish. lobsters are for lower classed people man.

  • I am from Maine and this is bizarre. What you do : Take whole live lobsters (they must be frisky - the more they move the better they will be) They should be chix - 1 to 1 1/2 lbs. Lay them into a deep pot with enough water to cover them halfway. Don't add salt or other seasonings to them. Set the heat to medium high and cover the pot. Slow heat puts lobsters to sleep. After around 10 - 15 of heat, they are ready to eat. Be sure to pull down the back of the tail to remove the sand vein

  • Pussys it is graphic but u asked for it when u clicked to watch so don't be a pussy when it comes down to it

  • Listen u fucking morons who don't know shit

    Lobsters are not humans, 1. they are on the bottom of the food chain so fuck em sharks would not ever hesitate to eat your ass 2. The fuxking rubber bands have NOTHING to do with taste in fact I want u to take them off so the lobster claws your Ass and snaps your finger off since he's about to die anywYs he'll do whatever it takes to survive 3 they don't feel pain there fuxking lobsters moron do u see tears come from

    There eyes?

    Go hug a tree

  • lolz funny

  • How would u lyk it if we pulled off ur limbs and ate them!?!? God :(

  • ok at 1:01

    you do need to remove the rubber bands

    rubber has chemicals in it that will become mixed in with the food like almost any other material, like plastic; if heated

  • I admit, I'm not for or against animal consumption. I like food. But the "while it's still alive" part is a bit much.

  • yeah man and he did it with his hands.........not like a knife decapitation thats fast..........still delish

  • Reading this after Watching District 9 leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

    Oh well, lobsters are fucking delicious.

  • step 2:

    "Twist them off while the lobster is still alive"

    Are you out of ya damn mind?

    Kill it first, use a knife and split the head...

    Lame instruction video...

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  • i dont know why you guys are all fightin about Lobsters when there are humans being tortured. I mean, yeah we don't wanna torture a lobster, but when you consider how humans are still being torture...are lobsters really that important?

  • ahem, lobsters are much stupider than us human therefore, lobster = food , humans eat food and when you freeze them in your freezer for 3 or 4 hours they won't feel a thing. mmmm delicious !

  • umm isent dead boiled lobster poisonous?

  • not true, its a myth.

  • what a shitty video

  • So guyve007 "Where's your video"?

  • ouch...

  • ok....to all the vegans whining why would you watch a video about boiling a lobster.....

  • A restriction of diet and tolerance for torture have no relation.

    To spell it out more clearly for you: a "carnivore" can eat humanely eat lobster by simply stabbing it first in the back of the head (killing it instantly) before boiling it.

  • This is in-humane, but who am I to say that...

  • Sorry original poster but this video is so WRONG! I also spent a good many years in N.S. and this video isn't the real deal. Remove the bands as they can ruin the taste of the meat. Lobsters should be cooked whole as`the body contains the tomalley and the legs offer meat. Cook a 1.5 lb lobster 11 to 12 minutes at a rolling boil. (2 tbs of salt per gallon of water. Forget he bay leaf.) I cooked 75lbs of lobster last weekend and all 50 came out great.

  • wow cheer up its the foodchain...

  • Is there any part of a lobster that has to be cleaned after its cooled or before it's cooked?

  • A 2007 study at Queen's University, Belfast, suggested that crustaceans do feel pain

  • Lobsters can shed a claw stuck between aquatic rocks or lose it to predators and move on like it never happened. These guys have insect-like nervous systems people.

    Marine biologists everywhere note that they can respond to external stimuli like a cricket or grasshopper can, but certainly not the physical/psycho pain mammals can feel. Those reactions in boiling water are responses to external stimuli, not agony, an escape mechanism, if you will.

  • Nonsense. A human would never feel agony without an external stimulus or extreme lack thereof. I.E . a HUMAN placed in boiling waters reaction to the boiling water such as sceaming, flailing, scuttling are responses to that external stimuli, not to agony. Besides a human in agony would not behave all that differently being boiled alive than a lobster. We are more sophisticated than a lobster but both share pain. All biologists agree on that.

  • and what can you tell me about the similarities in the NV system that we share SOOOO much in common with a one-step-over-insect organism? Can we lose an arm and walk away indifferent? that's nonsense.

    similarities you say...external responses to stimuli, not psychologically processed pain like you imply...are what lobsters feel

    I have a thing for insects and crustaceans, building them homes and wierd stuff as a small kid, but lobster cruelty is proven-wrong forgone conclusion.

  • I agree....the people who say lobsters can feel like humans can aren't exactly researching the facts....

    I love animals...but boiling a lobster is a long, seemingly torturous process, when it's really not!

  • We must remember that lobsters have evolved to to lose their legs and live, while humans have evolved to lose their hair and live. Comparing what lobsters can physically accomplish to what humans can is irrelevant.

    Perhaps your idea is that lobsters do not feel pain at all? Pain bypasses the brain altogether. The lobster's legs are boiling, and those neurons communicate directly to the mouth to produce a scream.

    Lobsters are not humans and feel differently, but they still feel pain.

  • No....my idea is that the processes that occur in humans are much more complex than an invertebrate who's one step over an insect's NV system, or doesn't even surpass that.

    If a human lost a leg, there would be visible signs of agony(obviously). In lobsters and insects, you hardly see that at all. I never said regeneration proves they can't feel pain. I said they couldn't care less.

    Pain asymbolia is thought to occur(tho not proven), where it is felt, but not negatively emotionaly..etc.

  • Ppl have come up with all types of justifications for their cruelty over the years. Hitler "scientifically" justified the killing of jews by calling them undermensen (subhuman), Americans killed plenty of natives with a similar excuse and then once again blacks. I have read that crustaceans do have nociceptors and it makes sense that it would. Pain is a very efficient way for animals to protect themselves from damage. A lobsters rxn in a pot looks a lot like pain to me....

  • one peculiar thing you pointed out caught my attention when you compared insect like animals to human being. Do you know why Hitler and medievel conquerers justified killing certain people? it was propoganda-induced delusions that caused that. There was no factual basis that it was harmful.

    But there is evidence that points to the fact that lobster do not "suffer" like many like you would want to believe. Subjective pain (ie. suffering), is not always the same as receptor pain that is avoided.

  • Lobsters have nervous systems and brains that process pain. A lobster suffering in the same way as a human is a ridiculous notion. No one claimed they "suffer" as humans do. They do feel pain when they are boiled alive. Physical pain. Thats what the nerves are for. AGAIN: Lobsters have a nervous system. What for? A sense of touch and an ability to feel pain: which they do! This is a fact. They are not human but they feel pain. Wake up! The sun doesn't revolve around the earth.

  • Exactly! that kind of pain they feel is not or at least shouldn't be analogous to mammals because of the psychological processes that are so different. Sure primitive pain receptors, like that of a large insect to escape danger, but the idea of feeling pain as suffering in lobs is not realistic.

    Why do I need to wake up? YOu just proved my point. Thrashing in a hot pan often invokes visions of cruelty and torture, but it's no more than a fried insect.

  • The term "suffer" you introduced is way too subjective and humanly imposing to attempt to assign or unassign to a lobster. The fact that it's a "lowly" insect thrashing in the pain doesn't do anything for your argument as it still has a nervous system and will feel great pain as a result.

    What is "cruel" or not is ultimately subjective and for each individual to evaluate. For me its very clear, and based on the objectivity of the ability to feel pain or not.

  • well in that case, boiling a lobster wouldn't be any more cruel than boiling a grasshopper alive. It shouldn't cause any more controversy.

    In the same way, since a lobster can't interpret pain the way mammals let alone high vertebrates can, there is little issue on whether it's "humane" or not. If your gonna argue that a lobster feels Great Pain, then what? The pain isn't interpreted psychologically into the feeling of torture that a human being would feel.

  • Lobsters do indeed have a nervous system, however the brain is an integral part in the nervous system as well. Lobster have a brain about the size of a grasshopper, even though the nervous system exists within the lobster, it's brain is too minute to process pain, it is instead used to help motor skills, i.e. moving.

  • lol lobsters don't feel pain when they are being boiled.

  • LOL, this is so wrong... I used to live in Nova Scotia and my dad was a lobster fisher.

    for one the rubber bands are supposed to come off before you boil, if not you get the taste of rubber bands in your meat.

    Second your supposed to cook it whole cause the body of the lobster keeps juices in and the insides of the lobster flavor the meat.

  • I don't know anyone that cooks lobster this way. My guess is this kitchen is trying to save pot space, that's all.

    They are always cooked whole, without the freakin' rubber bands on, then taken apart AFTER being cooked. There is plenty of meat in the body (where the legs attach) so this method is wasteful.

  • twist the claws and tails off alive? thats so cruel to the lobster, what if some1 twisted another persons arms and legs off while still alive?

  • so the lobsters are trapped in tiny cages and shipped for miles, then rubber bands are squeezed onto thier claws their put in a tank where they have to walk on top of each other only to have thier limbs twisted of and then boiled alive? wow that is cruelty!

  • and like they were born to eat us too, i'm refering to lion, tiger, bears, and many more