Posted on 03/27/2009 10:37:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A favored method of preparing fresh crabs is to simply boil them alive. A longstanding related question: Do they feel pain? Yes, researchers now say. Not only do crabs suffer pain, a new study found, but they retain a memory of it (assuming they aren't already dead on your dinner plate). The scientists say its time for new laws to consider the suffering of all crustaceans. The study involved using wires to deliver shocks to the bellies of hermit crabs, which, being hermits, often take up residence in left-behind mollusc shells. The crabs that were shocked scampered out of their shells, "indicating that the experience is unpleasant for them," the scientists concluded; unshocked crabs stayed put. Another test was run to see what would happen if a mild shock was delivered, one just below the threshold that would cause the crabs to leave home. These mildly shocked crabs, along with crabs that had not been shocked, were then offered a new home. The typical reaction: They'd go inspect the new shell. Significantly, those that had been shocked were more likely to pack up and move to the new residence compared to those that hadn't been shocked. "There has been a long debate about whether crustaceans including crabs, prawns and lobsters feel pain," said study researcher Bob Elwood of Queen's University Belfast in the UK.
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Looks like a crab cleaning course. Dig in.
I will just butter them up a little and it should deflect their pain.
Oh, well. They feel pain, I’ll thank them for their sacrifice before I dip them in butter.
I’ll toast their sacrifice with a glass of beer!
Boiled alive or chewed alive. That's really about the only two choices the crabs got.
Do you knwo what solent green is?
Of all the important things scientists could be researching, they’re researching this.
I just wonder if the crabs have any concern at all for the pain of their prey when they tear anything they catch apart one chunk at a time?
These animal rights activists are just plain silly.
Thank you for sharing...I hope my posts never offend anyone, but in these ominous times, I use humor quite often, just to keep myself from crying all the time...LOL. You’re husband sounds like a GREAT person. God richly bless you and him.
Yes, thats why I said what I said.
This is what evolutionary thinking will get you...
we’re nothing special, just happened to evolve the way we are out of the same goo as the crab did.
People of this world are so lost...
Aw quit yer crabbin, ya libs.
Oh, but these were mild shocks, don't you see. Mustn't upset the sensitive class; they might cry.
J.O. No question.
If the crabs realize how yummy they are,
they’d not mind the bit of pain involve -
a little like getting an ear pierced...
“Of all the important things scientists could be researching, they’re researching this.”
Libtards only do research on things that try to make you feel guilty then miserable just like them.....I don’t give a crap! Waiter, more crab legs!
Thank you
Very very good point. Don’t waste your time trying reason with libs, though.
I prefer cocktail sauce with extra horseradish. Drawn butter works better with lobster.
If the crabs realize how yummy they are,....
Guess what happens to a body when crabs find it in the water? Also, crabs eat each other.
Put live blue crabs in your refrigerator or freezer.
This numbs them and kinda puts them to sleep. Also, you won’t get as many loose claws.
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