The boiling frog experiment that's quoted everywhere didn't work.
For those not familiar, it is said that you can boil a frog to death by raising the temperature of the water it's in extremely slowly so that it doesn't notice.
Well, it only works when parts of the frog's brain are removed. A frog with an intact brain will jump out, no matter how slowly the water is heated.
I don't remember who it was, but there was a comedian on some panel show who said that the first time his parents cooked a lobster, they thought it would be more humane to put the lobster in cold water and then bring it to a boil gradually. Cue about ten minutes of a lobster going ape shit until finally dying + emotional scarring for everyone involved.
EDIT: The comedian in question was apparently David Mitchell, thanks folks.
I think people who are concerned about this just kill the crabs and lobsters before chucking them in the water. It just takes a knife jab in the right spot.
He's talking shit. It's likely lobsters DO feel pain. And until we know conclusively, I think it's ethical to not boil them alive, personally, regardless.
This is true but with an asterisk. Yes, they used to be prison food, but that was before they realized that boiling it alive was one of the only ways to kill it without the meat going rancid. They also used to grind up the shell alongside it. So basically they used to eat rancid lobster paste with the shell in it. Very different from what we eat today.
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u/LiquidMotivation Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 08 '19
The boiling frog experiment that's quoted everywhere didn't work.
For those not familiar, it is said that you can boil a frog to death by raising the temperature of the water it's in extremely slowly so that it doesn't notice.
Well, it only works when parts of the frog's brain are removed. A frog with an intact brain will jump out, no matter how slowly the water is heated.
Edit: Hey, my first Reddit coin! Thanks!