Crustaceans feel pain

[Will E Worm]

Blow for fans of boiled lobster: crustaceans feel pain, study says.

Sensitive chefs, avert your eyes now. An investigation into the most contentious of kitchen dilemmas has reached its unpalatable conclusion: lobsters do feel pain.

The question of crustaceans' ability to experience pain has become an unlikely obsession for some scientists. Over the past few decades, the question has been batted back and forth as fresh evidence comes to light. Two years ago, Norwegian researchers declared the answer was a firm no, claiming the animals' nervous systems were not complex enough.

The latest salvo, published in New Scientist today, comes from Robert Elwood, an expert in animal behaviour at Queen's University, Belfast. With help from colleagues, he set about finding an answer by daubing acetic acid on to the antennae of 144 prawns.

Immediately, the creatures began grooming and rubbing the affected antenna, while leaving untouched ones alone, a response Prof Elwood says is "consistent with an interpretation of pain experience". The same pain sensitivity is likely to be shared by lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans, the researchers believe.

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I said this before. :hatsoff:

 

[Namreg]

we already had a thread on this a couple of days ago, and this was on news sites months ago.

 

[Will E Worm]

we already had a thread on this a couple of days ago, and this was on news sites months ago.

:tongue: It was on AOL today, so I looked it up. :hatsoff:

 

[Namreg]

no problem, just as an FYI.
here's that other thread:
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=288128

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

i'm still gonna eat them

 

[BlueBalls]

I might as well make the same joke.

And they itch like hell!!!

[ba dum dum tshhhhh . . . ]







Doesnt work as well with the word "crustaceans" in the title ...... DAMN!!!

 

[Namreg]

krustacean:

 

[Skyraider22]

Then it really sucks to be a lobster or crab that good stuff,the last three days someone from Freeones has told me some I did not know:thumbsup:

 

[Namreg]

something else You Might not know: unlike what you see in certain youtube videos, lobsters don't scream when you throw them into the boiling water... they can't since they have no vocal chords.

 

[yaheem]

Good for them, fucking underwater spider freaks. Delicious underwater spider freaks. Mmmmm Eeeeek!!! ARACHNOPHOBIA STRIKES!!!!

 

[assholebythedoor]

anyway, I think i'ts beautful how lovers can reunite after that long.