Study suggest lobsters don't feel pain

Lobsters probably do not feel pain, according to a new study that stirs up a long-simmering debate over whether the creature suffers when it is being cooked.

Study suggest lobsters don't feel pain

Lobsters probably do not feel pain, according to a new study that stirs up a long-simmering debate over whether the creature suffers when it is being cooked.

Animal activists for years have claimed that lobsters are in agony when being cooked, and that dropping one in a pot of boiling water is tantamount to torture.

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