Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn’t fully understood before.
We’re just gonna keep making more unexpectedly disturbing discoveries that would have also been the intuitive guess of any empathetic two year old.
This. Lots and lots of people, especially when I was younger, would go on about how “animals” (non-humans) can’t experience pain or emotion. 30 years of evidence to the contrary later, fuck 'em.
It wasn’t until the (late) 1980’s that there was universal acceptance that baby human’s felt pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies
Its not better that this was the case, but it’s a little more even-handedly stupid.
“We need more research to find less painful ways to kill shellfish,” Dr. Sneddon urges.
It’s sad that this is the takeaway and not “let’s not eat these creatures that experience stress and pain”
“It’s time to eat the bugs!” -Omnivores when confronted with any new challenges to animal ag.
He’s saying we need a less shellfish way to prep this food.
Imagine we banned things because they harm living beings.
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THEN WE BOMB VENEZUELA.
That’s not how I remember those Sabaton lyrics.
Understandable. Have a very freedom day!
“This is awful, but what can we do?”
er, I can think of a simple thing to do about it…
It’s ok to boil crabs because they don’t have any feeeeelings
Something in the way!
I love to get in a hot tub and gradually turn up the temp to dangerous levels. It’s not painful… it’s dangerously comforting. I only read the article not the study, but I wonder if the study examined the effect of slow boiling (like the euphamism “boiling frogs”).
The article has this:
This is awful, but what can we do?
The first step is acknowledging that these animals might experience pain similarly to how we do.
With that understanding, industries and regulators can work towards implementing more humane methods of handling and killing crustaceans.
Restaurants and home cooks alike can adjust. Rapid chilling at 32 °F for 20 minutes puts many crabs into torpor; specialized devices such as the CrustaStun deliver a quick electrical jolt that ends consciousness in under a second.
So it makes sense that a restaurant would use a commercial device to do it quickly. And I guess most home cooks are buying dead crustaceans. But some grocers have a tank of live ones. I have never bought seafood like that. Do they give it to you live or do they kill it in the store before purchase?
The ultimate question is whether consumers “need” to toss these animals into boiling water, or if they can put them in moderate water and slowly bring it to a boil. Or if the research shows that it’s relatively painless.
I am sorry, as im not smashing you with references, etc., but they do feel that shit. Science is so slow, but a web search can get there - I mean, bees play, nematodes sleep, etc.
Also, the frog thing isn’t true, but Dantes Peak didn’t help that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). Damn that acid lake…
But some grocers have a tank of live ones. I have never bought seafood like that. Do they give it to you live or do they kill it in the store before purchase?
They give it to you live. My middle school home ec teacher thought they killed it for you, brought home two live lobsters and the only pot she had that they’d fit in was a glass one. She watched the poor things scrambling at the sides of the pot as they boiled alive. She didn’t buy live lobster again. Then she told the story to her home ec students, every year.
The ultimate question is whether consumers “need” to toss these animals into boiling water,
You were so close
*euphemism
Have nonrof you ever cleaned a crab? You put the body over a small metal bar and hit the shell to “split” the crab then flip it and pull the legs from each side off. They are alive during that too.
Why would they be alive after you cook them? You don’t crack and clean a crab before you cook it. You do that after you cook it.
People split the crab right on the docks after catching them sometimes.
Yep, I just watched the video, had no idea people could be this ****ing ******.
You can clean it before you cook it. Here is a video of the method that many do in the PNW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENZ2KEUrx50&t=90
JFC, I stand corrected. He’s just going to toss out what most around the world consider delicacy! Cruelest preparation possible. I don’t get it at all. Fuck this guy.
