CRABS AND LOBSTERS FEEL PAIN UPON BEING BOILED ALIVE : SCIENTISTS CALL FOR A BAN

I have this idea that creatures of the sea have only recently been understood to be animals.  What I almost never eat is sea food.  Siren

EARTH COM : SCIENTISTS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE BAN ON BOILING THEM ALIVE

Excerpt: Dr. Lynne Sneddon, a zoophysiologist at the University of Gothenburg, believes it’s time we reconsider how we treat these animals.

“We need to find less painful ways to kill shellfish if we are to continue eating them. Because now we have scientific evidence that they both experience and react to pain,” she says.

Excerpt:  Until now, the idea that crustaceans feel pain was mostly based on observational studies.

Researchers noticed that when crabs and lobsters were exposed to potentially harmful stimuli — like electric shocks or acids — they would touch the affected area or try to avoid the danger in subsequent encounters.

This behavior led many to believe they might be experiencing pain.

But the team at the University of Gothenburg took it a step further. PhD student Eleftherios Kasiouras led a study where they measured the activity in a shore crab’s brain using EEG-style recordings.