{"id":749543,"date":"2017-12-14T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749543"},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:47:34","slug":"crabs-and-lobsters-deserve-protection-from-being-cooked-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749543","title":{"rendered":"Crabs and lobsters deserve protection from being cooked alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

JONATHAN BIRCH: <\/strong>\u2018Crabs and lobsters have a tough time at the hands of humans. In most countries, they are excluded from the scope of animal welfare legislation, so nothing you do to them is illegal. The result is that they are treated in ways that would clearly be cruel if inflicted on a vertebrate. This might in part be because they are so alien to us. It is hard to begin to imagine the inner life of a 10-legged, faceless creature with a nervous system distributed throughout its body\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, if you care about animal welfare, you should care what happens to crabs and lobsters. Consider live boiling. The animal often takes minutes to die, during which it writhes around and sheds its limbs\u2026 Crabs are often still, as one recent study put it, \u2018processed in a live state\u2019. \u2018Processed\u2019 here is a euphemism for \u2018carved alive\u2019\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Does any of this matter ethically? For many, the key question here is whether these animals are capable of feeling anything \u2013 whether they are sentient. If they feel nothing as they are boiled or carved alive, then ethical qualms about these practices seem as misplaced as they would be for vegetables. But if they do feel \u2013 if they are sentient \u2013 then they are cruel and inhumane\u2019.<\/em> SOURCE\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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