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Study concludes crabs feel pain

MindHunter

MindHunter

Member
If I make crabs (I don't care for them as they're usually too much of a hassel to eat), I tend to do one of 2 things. Usually I just toss them in the water then cover the lid (uncle had experience when the thing crawled out and it was a cat-crab show down that I sadly wasn't at his house to see). However, if people object at my house, then I grab a knife and one quick motion straight through it's head/neck area. It still would feel some pain from that, however, no pain from the water. Otherwise, it's in the pot they go.

However, I assume this would apply to crabs, if you got through their head, be sure not to pull of a Mike the Headless Chicken routine. Although it'd die from the water anyways.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Mister_T said:
I'm suprised studies are just finding this out now as well. I've had people tell me that you can hear lobsters scream when you boil them. I wouldn't expect it to be any different with crabs.
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Actually, just to be picky, I beleive it's the steam being forced out of the shell that causes the noise not a scream. However, I still don't understand why so many people seem to think animals don't feel pain. It just absolutely amazes me.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Watchmen said:
I've been crabbing many many times and will go crabbing many many times more. I have no qualms about the way I cooked them before or how I will come them in the future. No qualms whatsoever.
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Lucky for you, you're human. I'm not sure you'd feel the same way if you were a crab.
 
Valjean

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Good point MSizer.
If little green men began swooping down in their saucers and regularly scooping up humans for their restaurants, only vegetarians would have any legitimate cause to complain.

If suffering, freedom or quality of life are not factors in our treatment of other species then the overriding moral principle is pretty much might makes right.

Tit for tat, baby.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Seyorni said:
Good point MSizer.
If little green men began swooping down in their saucers and regularly scooping up humans for their restaurants, only vegetarians would have any legitimate cause to complain.

If suffering, freedom or quality of life are not factors in our treatment of other species then the overriding moral principle is pretty much might makes right.

Tit for tat, baby.
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Amen Brother.
 
MSizer

MSizer

MSizer
Watchmen said:
That's right, sci-fi is necessary to make your point.
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I hoped that maybe by dumbing it down, some others might understand, but apparently not. If you'd like, we could sub in some talking snakes and global floods and some dead people walking around. Would that make it easier?
 
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painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
I've no problem with humans being part of the food chain. (I do have a problem with over harvesting and modern over consumption)

We need serious change to how we treat the oceans.

wa:do
 
Watchmen

Watchmen

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
MSizer said:
I hoped that maybe by dumbing it down, some others might understand, but apparently not. If you'd like, we could sub in some talking snakes and global floods and some dead people walking around. Would that make it easier?
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1. That's an ad hominen.

2. You know nothing about my religious beliefs.

3. Talking about another's religious beliefs is irrelevant to the thread.
 
Breathe

Breathe

Hostis humani generis
This finding doesn't really surprise me, and I don't really care for shellfish in general..

But I believe that we should, no matter what, try to cause as little suffering to something as possible (I feel bad if I squish a bug too!) - especially when we are going to eat it. If a new technique comes out, we should follow that providing it's viable for us to.

Throwing something alive, fully conscious in a pot of boiling water is an awful thing to do. It takes a second to kill them, so why not just do that, then put them in the water?

Just my $0.02 :)
 
jamaesi

jamaesi

To Save A Lamb
tomspug said:
I imagine that a crab would feel much more pain when they are slowly digested alive by most of its natural predators. Wouldn't you say a quick boil is more humane?
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You're kidding, right?

Humans know better than to torture other living feeling things. Should it be okay for me to cut off your limbs as long as I do it quicker than a shark would?
 
iloveislam

iloveislam

Muslim
What surprises me is not the study, but the fact that many people have turned the scientists into gods.

There is no need for a scientific study to be done for a person to realise that crabs also feel pain!

Anyhow this just goes to show how twisted people are nowadays. So if tommorrow a scientist says "penguins also don't feel pain when they are boiled", then the people will say it is a fact now!
 
Valjean

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
iloveislam said:
What surprises me is not the study, but the fact that many people have turned the scientists into gods.

There is no need for a scientific study to be done for a person to realise that crabs also feel pain!

Anyhow this just goes to show how twisted people are nowadays. So if tommorrow a scientist says "penguins also don't feel pain when they are boiled", then the people will say it is a fact now!
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Not so obvious as you'd think, submissive one. Odd as it seems to you and me, a lot of people really believe fish and crustaceans cannot feel pain.
 
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