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Pennyaline[_3_]

wrote:
> wrote:
>> Do lobsters have feelings? The reason that I axe is that on a cooking
>> show recently(Mike Smiths') a live lobster was steamed to death. It
>> was put into a pot with a little water and then covered and the heat
>> turned on. Did this lobster suffer for a long time?
>
> They have senses for sure, just like we humans who rule the earth. I
> suspect they also can sense impending death - a necessary item for
> survival and evolution. But I am not knowledgeable about lobsters. I
> cannot eat them any more unless it is packaged meat and I don't see the
> claws and eyes. They are being depleted too much in the wild also? I
> may have read that there is a problem there too.
>
> I have a feeling that being put into a pot and steamed to death is not
> a way to go.
>
> Too reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition.

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.