Most restaurants actually kill the lobster just before boiling. You showed a clip of Gordon Ramsey in the video, but there’s another clip where he shows how to properly prepare and cook a lobster. There’s a sweet spot in the shell around the head/neck region that allows for a quick, easy kill with a sharp knife. Then, after the deed is done, you plop the lobster into the pot and boil away. It’s humane, and a more accurate representation of how most restaurants cook lobster, though there are some who do just drop the lobster in without a second thought.
Any Rebel Well, not the MOST humane way to die for a human, but for an animal? Yeah. Any death that is instant and painless is humane. If you’re trying to say that we shouldn’t eat lobster or whatever, I agree! XD I’m Jewish, so I don’t eat lobster anyways. BUT, any death that is painless and instant is humane.
I always think how hungry did the first person who ate a lobster have to be to eat something that looks like a giant sea bug. Only to find out it’s freaking delicious!
Well I do remember watching an old UA-cam video and it did mention that “Lobsters were everywhere on the coasts once, they were even served as prison food.” So I guess I can see why some person decided “ooo really big sea bug, time to e a t”
To be fair, when I accidentally touched things that are too hot there was indeed no pain involved. The pain is simply too slow. It only comes way after my reflex already made me move away.
True answer is yes. Primitive or not but they have nervous system and pain is one of the most desired inputs it provides. Helps witg detecting danger so creature can avoid it early enough before it become fatal. If lobsters pain is similar to ours feeling is another thing but you can bet it is not pleasant for them. Ofc you cannot say that for 100%, but that is true for absolutly any being outside of your own. There is no real hard evidence you can gather that will claim that dogs feel pain. You can have convicing clues but from scientific point of view there will be no certainty.
Even before I started watching Leon the Lobster videos, I thought boiling a lobster alive was cruel. I now think they very much feel pain. Leon seemed to have delayed movement in his large pincers after the rubber bands were removed and you can still see how deep a crevice the bands made after he molted. Why don’t restaurants pith the brain before they drop it in the water? A skewer jabbed between the eyes and you can scramble their brain. We did that in biology class for the live frog dissection. Better for the lobster and helps keep the bacteria away.
@@snowwfps Yep. Honors Bio Two. Teach put all the frogs in a glass cylinder, dropped in a couple cotton balls soaked in chloroform then handed us a frog. We pithed the brain and started the vivisection. The best part was the heart. He helped us cut it out and put it in petri dishes where we dripped epinephrine and succenylcholine to speed up and slow down the heart. As long as it has fluid it kept beating. That class was freaking awesome!
Hah you watched Brady and Leon the lobster too. Great videos, made me appreciate the creatures more. I still eat them. We've always dropped them headfirst, which does kill them instantly, or bisected their heads before dressing them the rest of the way for a pan or grill.
@@kevins4213 Does it actually kill them instantly? Cause if you drop a human in boiling water, it doesn't kill us right away. And we don't have an exoskeleton.
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On the topic of whether they feel pain, while I can’t be sure about Lobsters, there is considerable evidence that crabs do. Tests using electrical jolts show that crabs will flee from, and avoid, caves where they know they will get a nasty zap. Crabs have also been observed nursing injured legs, spending more time grooming their injured limb than the other, and actively avoiding putting weight on them.
Yeah! That's the type of comments I want to see everywhere. There are tons of people agreeing under every film, but rarely anyone post such cool comment discussing with a video and saying something cool. I love funfacts so thanks! I find this one it very cool.
I was looking for this comparison, I've also read about these experiments with crabs. Lobsters and crabs as very similar so if crabs feels pain so must lobsters.. Maybe he could replicate this experiment with Leon and document it to help millions of other lobsters that are being boiled alive..
this ``they feel no pain!`` excuse is a wile and outright demonic excuse that is also used when talking about circumcising baby boys. 100 percent horse shit, total lack of empathy
@@Hatemx1 They do indeed! Used to love them.. You know something also delicious that in principle don't feel pain? Bivalves, like oysters and mussels.. they would be a better option ethically speaking.
As a waiter in a restaurant that serves lobster, it's customary for our kitchen staff to cut the head down the middle before boiling it. It's more humane AND doesn't allow for bacteria to accumulate
They trash around the pot, but it 's just a reflex response to the boiling water, not a conscious action. We don't know if their primitive nervous system can even feel pain. They certainly don't emit scream in radio wave, but it just because they don't even have the proper organ to do so.
@@tmzygy6413 listen to what the narrator said at 1:18. Bacteria incubation would take place only after few hours. If you first stab the lobster on head and then put it immediately in the boiling water, that would be most humane+hygienic way to devour
I remember back in high school, my mother had a friend and her family visiting from away, and they decided to have lobster for dinner, as a treat for the guests. So we went to the store, stopped by the lobster tank... and saw that one of the lobsters wasn't moving. She immediately notified an employee, and someone came to collect the dead lobster, since they legally couldn't sell it dead for health reasons.
@@XeonProductions not excessive at all those bacteria once develope can contamine other living lobster. whole fishing boat full of lobster have been dumped few dead lobster
C not necessarily, it could just be a common reflex to try to escape to stay alive it doesn’t necessarily mean they feel pain. However they do know when they are in danger otherwise they wouldn’t try and escape. So it’s hard to tell.
@@jonasplett172 which means boiling fears them. Fear is not more different than pain. They fear for the death and try to escape and it is really equivalent to some mental pain.
@@astroace4624 Fear isnt pain. Fear is ur brain telling you get tf out whatever situation your in. and mental pain in a lobster? really... animals dont think in the matter that you or i do, they just exist with the purpose of mating and surviving (as do we, but i believe we found reasons for the meaning behind our existences ).
Wait a min... His whole argument is "if a lobster dies you only have a few hours before the bacteria show up..." . So why not just kill it before dropping it in the pan? I really thought it was going to be something more reasonable.
bananian "pain receptors" are just nerves under to much pressure, they are the same thing, but our brains processes the information differently depending on the force used, this way, an animal can feel but can't be hurt (like spiders), but since a lobster's nerves are under an exoskeleton and are coated outside the meat, as opposed to within, it's likely that they don't feel pain, but we just don't know.
Does a lobster feel pain? “No one really knows” Should have started with that dude. Edit: I think they changed the title of the video LOL now my comment doesn’t make any sense..
@@vavovidnica It´s not right to kill an unborn baby. You can remove a fetus, but that´s only because it does not have a neural network complex enough to allow awareness of itself or it´s environment. Even newborns do not show significant awareness but they are capable of and all it requires is learning. From this perspective it is very safe to say, that it was never alive, because as soon as it could develop awareness it is prohibited to get rid of an unborn.
They're not getting mad at them being boiled. They're mad at them being boiled ALIVE. If they were humanely killed directly prior to the boiling I don't think anyone would be mad.
I can now confirm that my phone is officially spying on me. I was just talking to my partner about this exact topic, 2 nights ago. Asking this exact question. 😱
Justa Sarcasshole that’s not even close to what he said. There’s a misconception that the sound of steam escaping the shells is the lobster screaming. The video was just clearing up that misconception. He also literally said that we don’t know if they feel pain or not. Way to just make shit up dude.
Ryan Reid true lol I don't think it's gonna change the flavor at all and you avoid inflicting to the lobster a way of death that seems straight out of a medieval torture rule book
I can't believe the guy narrating was more concerned about nausea and cramps if you get bacteria from a lobster. Never mind the fact the lobster is dead. Not a thought for the animal. If cramps and nausea really bothers you then here's an idea. DON'T EAT A LOBSTER. Let the animal live instead of thinking about yourself
I’ve always refused to eat them for this reason. Personally, I believe they do feel pain. Like all living creatures, the biological function of pain is to warn something is wrong. If pain wasn’t such a thing, animals would get harmed easily and die without even realising what is going on. Then... go on, lobsters don’t rot in minutes. There is no need to put a completely conscious one in a pot...! They could be stunned or made unconscious, or their nervous system could be somehow damaged so they don’t feel anything, and only then boiled. Exactly like slaughterhouse animals, the law doesn’t allow them to be bled to death before they are unconscious (shot in the head or electro stunned). We should be more respectful to creatures bred or caught to be our food... and avoid unnecessary suffering.
Either way, the Lobster dies before cooking. You can spare it boiling to death by cutting it in half through its head or just boil the whole thing whole.
A lot of fishermen put their fish/lobsters/other sealife on ice before cooking. It helps them fall into a deep sleep that makes it impossible for them to even know what's going on. A quick and painless way to prep.
I agree, thats the best way to do it. Freeze them so that they're unconscious then boil them alive. Saves you from getting ill if you cook it that way, or you can just cut through the head.
funny how u make this moral decision based on the fact that they are boiled alive but are completely fine with the fact that they are killed so u can have the pleasure of taste
A marine biologist was on one of my cooking shows, and he said that if you're worried about the lobster experiencing pain, you should put them in the freezer for about a half hour before boiling them. They go into something like a hibernation when they're in a very cold place.
stvia They go in a hibernation process, don't you know what hibernating means? It means they sleep for a long time, SLEEP, in otherwords they wont even know when or how they get killed
The actual chef answer is don't do this because that affects the quality of their meat. Really, there is a very specific way to cut them which instantly kills them before they 'can feel pain' due to the way you cut them and the location not having nerve endings.
I don't know if Australia actually has laws around boiling them alive, but I do know that killing them first, BEFORE boiling them is standard restaurant practice. They do this by cutting them in two right down the centre in one quick motion and then throwing them into a boiling pot. This is pretty much standard practice around Australia and the islands and is said to be the most humane way of dispatching them.
Odds are they can feel pain. Even if they couldn't, they can tell differences in temperature. It's an extremely uncomfortable experience. Just kill them right before cooking it's NOT THAT HARD
Actually it's very hard to kill a lobster, and stabbing it in the head is pointless. Lobsters and other invertebrates do not have a single brain, but several small things called ganglia. These are about the size of the ball in a ball point pen. An expert in lobster anatomy would be lucky to hit them. In switzerland they use specialist equipment to electrocute the lobster to death before cooking. Stabbing it in the head just causes more suffering.
@@blimpy8263 just because someones brain isnt in their hand doesn't mean you won't kill them instantly by stabbing them in the hand. That's how you sound.
After watching a crawfish PULL OFF IT'S OWN CLAW just to avoid being boiled alive. I think its safe to say they can feel pain and therefore try to avoid it as much as possible.
Lobsters can feel pain, the myth where lobsters can’t feel pain is just to make the person who cooks it less bad but in fact they are more sensitive to heat than us so they feel more pain than if we were cooked alive
Its actually debated in neuroscience. The involved neurologists aren't stupid. Being sensitive and feeling pain are two different things. Did you ever have your reflex pull you away from something before you actually felt why? Thats because you can be sensitive to something and act accordingly, without an actual feeling being involved. Nobody knows weither lobsters feel pain. The only thing we know is that there are people who are delusional enough in their lack of knowledge that they believe otherwise.
@@AliothAncalagon I feel pretty confidant in stating that lobsters do not feel pain - I can go into the neuroscience debate if you want, and why I think one side is ridiculously and obviously off the mark, but the short version is that pain is a relatively complex neurological function, the actual mechanics of which we understand pretty damn well. Animals such as lobsters lack the neurological framework to feel pain, meaning it is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for them to do so, at least using any meaningful definition of the word 'pain'. None of which is to say they aren't still suffering in some way from being boiled alive, though. I don't imagine that's a pleasant experience just by having a body that evolved without a pain response.
I am working as a waiter at a Seafood restaurant as a part time job, the cooks literally keep at least 5 lobsters in tiny boxes for days stored in fridges before then being cooked alive, it is disturbing and absolutely disgusting. This is the "behind the scenes“ experience of "fine" dining.
That's to keep them in a dorment stage. Basically like putting someone into a coma. They don't feel cold like we do. What ends up happening is there entire nervous system detects the temperature shift and goes into autopilot survival mode. Sorta like hibernation. It's probably the most humane way to dispatch a lobster if you stab it in the head before cooking and not boiling alive.
Just by action u can tell that the lobster feels pain or not, i saw one hanging at the edge of a cooking pot with its claws and the other cut off its arm which was in the boiling soup well it seems that the boiling environment is not pleasant for it so it reacts by trying to get away its a corrective measure ig so i do believe they feel pain
I feel like the default shouldn't be "as long as we are not sure that it can actually feel pain, we can boil it alive for our own pleasure." Humanity is fucked....
@@kaijuslayer3334 how is most food not eaten if not out of pleasure. Do you like eating lobster? Then it is out of pleasure. Eating lobster in the western world has nothing to do with survival. It only has to do with pleasure. The nutrients can be easily obtained without boiling a creature alive or eating a creature at all🤷🏻♀️
@@luchan1638 the same could be said about any food, I enjoy eating beef and chicken, does that mean I only do it for pleasure? No I do it because the human body requires the protein the meat provides, That I like it is just a bonus. Besides, If you live on the coast, lobster could be a part of your everyday diet. That being said, there isn't any reason not to kill the lobster before you put it in the pot.
@@sleven1160 that's my point :b. Animal products do not hold a Monopol on any nutrients or vitamines. You can easily find them somewhere else. Unless of course you have to eat lobster or any other animal product to survive because you don't have access to many other food sources. If you like your views being challenged I'd like you to watch the video "a meat eaters case for veganism" by cosmic sceptic or debates on veganism earthling ed has done on the topic. It made me change my point of view on the foods I've been eating since birth
Remember kiddos, killing lobsters with specialized equipment is very expensive and is very hard to maintain, Chef Ramsey has a 3 Michelin star restaurant. Not all places have the luxury of it.
@@thedaboink9202 oh I thought he meant the special equipment that places in Switzerland etc use. It's basically fries the lobster with electricity. But that's weird, lobster brains are spread throughout. One stab to the head shouldn't kill it, at most it might paralyze it.
They absolutely feel pain, I worked in a seafood department for 36 years. Crustaceans deteriorate very quickly once dead. Cooking alive assures freshness. A way to avoid the horrifying boiling alive aspect is to drive a knife point down between the head and the tail, or even better, put them in the freezer a few hours to stun them. Lobsters can live outside of water a few days if kept damp and very cold
They do not, and you have zero facts and evidence proving that their whole nervous system only detects something wrong but they don't actually feels sensory pain like humans do. They do not posses this portion of the brain responsible for this.
In Australia, well at least New South Wales, chefs are banned from cooking live seafood. It was determined, if the move, they a nervous system, if they have a nervous system, they feel pain. Chef's who come here from other nations take the practice of freezing them first to put them into a very deep hibernation before cooking.
There is a reason humans are at the absolute top of the food chain. We can and we will eat what we want. As long as it doesn't endanger the species in terms of it going extinct, then i say fair game. No animal or other species should be treated as valuable as a human life. Obviously i dont want animals going extinct. But a dead cat or lobster is FARRR less of a big deal than a dead human.
Its actually not necessary. Ive seen many lobsters cooked and eaten after being killed "humanely" in videos. the bacteria doesn't reproduce THAT quickly.
But why don't you kill it right before boiling it like wtf is wrong with doing that you can cut slide a knife through its head, and the put it straight into the pan *mindblown*
When I was a child, a family friend came by and said she cooks the best crab. As a kid, I loved crab. Then I saw her putting the crab in the pot and as it’s boiling, the crab was wiggling (like swimming) and I was traumatized and stopped eating crabs for like 10 years.
@Christopher Philip Reyes I’m all for eating animals as long as it’s not barbaric, and the animals don’t feel pain, and we don’t treat them like they do in china where they skin and boil dogs alive
@@Rounderyathecruel China doesnt eat dogs anymore, your racist idea of China is so outdated please stop acting like the country you're living in is any better
Yeah and they may not hear our blood curdling screams and think it’s alright....It’d be like, they don’t feel pain....haha! Thank god im a human and living in this parallel world!
When I was a kid, my mom used to put them in the freezer for 15 minutes before putting them in the pot. She said it put them to sleep and they didn't feel a thing, when I asked. I remember coming home frozen stiff when I was playing outside in -25C, and hot water felt like fire... So I always figured she was making it up.
Putting crustaceans in the freezer effectively acts as a sedative. They are cold blooded animals, so the effectively are unconcious when at freezing temperatures. Its nothing like mamals (humans) coming in from cold weather and hot water warming your skin. Your mom want lying.
Ayesha Ahmareen next banning that will be on the table...its a slippery slope...created from a ridiculous argument. No man should have the say over what another can do. Yet people demand this, all based purely on emotions and sacrificing the logic just to feel better.
Erik Ghostwood and the crew you have to realize, we are not talking about a pointless death like murder. This is the process needed to serve a type of food to hungry people. In my opinion, caring about what your meal felt while it was alive is purely idiotic
I mean, it’s like God (or nature, depending on what you believe in) didn’t want us to eat them cuz he put these “bugs” at the bottom of the deep ocean and put a shell on them
Surprised there was no discussion of the alternative. Instakill cut to the head seconds before throwing the now dead lobster in the pot. It's a quick extra step, that prevents the whole boiling alive thing.
2:21 "What you do hear is air and steam escaping from their shells" reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Hans Moleman was trying to tell Dr Hibbet he's not dead yeat, and Dr Hibbet told Marge "don't mind him, thats just air escaping"
This can't be real. Everything that is living feel pain get the f*** out of here.Just because it can't talk don't mean it don't have a f****** nervous system
this is why i've never eaten lobster , nor crawfish , and I'm from texas , but was originally raised in Louisiana as a kid so yeha i'm an odd southern that doesn't eat crawfish.
If someone gave me the option of dying quickly with a knife to the head or to be boiled alive, I'd choose the former. I guess they can boil you since you don't care.
The point is, Roberta, is that nobody knows if they feel pain. You could treat them as they do (as stated by that British man in the video) but I mean, who knows if they don't feel pain when we chop their head in half? Maybe we can feel a slight pain before death, but do they as well? And I was told that they die almost instantly at high heat anyway... IMO It's the same, just an easier and less gruesome way.
What do you suggest is a less painful way ? Btw I am sure they can feel pain. Pain is one of the most primitive sensations. It helps by telling you that you are in danger (when common sense is not fully present, like in animals with a less developed brain). This should be obvious.
typedef Pain is a naturally modern way of receiving those messages from the brain. The more intense the message, in this case the agony, the better chances of noticing body injures and preventing them to get any worse. Just like the video explained, it is NOT possible to know if lobsters truly feel pain, because they don't show OUR signs of pain. Also we don't speak lobster. They may simply receive brain info telling them that their organism is being attacked, but it doesn't necessarily mean they HAVE to feel pain, agony, stress, sadness... Viruses, bacteria, small organisms in general almost certainly do not feel pain, due to a poor neural system. Pain didn't just pop outta nowhere, it has evolved and upgraded until us, mammals. Lobsters are old as heck, why do they have to have a similar neural system to ours, but not bacteria's?
It actually explains why we boil them. Because of a certain strain of bacteria that thrives on dead lobsters. Not only does it form after only a few hours alot of it cannot be removed by cooking. So it's safer to cook them live. And as for my opinion on the 'morality' thing, i dont think it's realistic we stop at least not right away or all at once. Especially if we arent even sure they FEEL pain.
@@zanrath91 Ok so I know very little about cooking lobsters but I do know for a fact that there is no bacteria (or any organism, for that matter) that could ever survive a boiling. This is simply because the very molecular bonds that form life of earth break at such temperatures. So could you link me to a study/article about this? As for the pain, they obviously won't feel pain the same way we do, buy do have a sensory nervous system so anyone claiming that 'they don't feel anything' is talking out of their ass really.
There's a simple solution to this though, if you wanna eat lobster but don't wanna hurt it, just put it on the table and put a sharp pick of some kind through the back of its head, or use a large knife to quickly decapitate it and then boil it, it's literally that simple. Don't boil living creatures guys
@꧁Charky32꧂•8 years ago Or you know, boiling a lobster kills it way more faster and without pain then ramming a knife through the lobster multiple times before you actually kill it. Plus the spooky lobster bacteria is already inside, so it's more safe to kill all the bacteris rather than having the chance the bacteria colony will grow large enough to be harmful I also want to call you an eleven year old for how gay and naive your comment was.
@@rogaldorn9175 ... lol intellectual with wrong spelling.... you dont ram knife... u stab it at the back of the head and it dies intantly. Cooking it in boiling water will kill it within few seconds... pls dont put your ignorant ass comments in internet tyvm
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Lemuel Hui when animals kill their prey they usually go for a swift quick kill unless ur a snake that's crushing something. either way though boiling an animal alive is messed up. how about I boil you alive and feed you to my pet tiger? same logic sooooo
So why not just kill the lobster immediately before cooking it? That's a practice that many places do follow. If you notice in some of the footage the lobster head has been split down the middle. Though it may move a bit afterwards, that is a dead lobster
Serenity Scratch its a far faster way to kill a lobster. They might not survive "long" in boiling water, but there's no need to cause anything more than the minimal amount of suffering. Boiling alive is definitely not the fastest practical way to end the lobsters life.
Firman N yeah... Not that fast. I have a doctorate in pharmacy. The time between cutting lobster and throwing it in a pot shouldn't be long in any reputable kitchen.
C North I dont think you can even call that being lazy. How hard is it to stab it quickly trough the skull? I can only atribute this behaviour to being mentally deranged
Slime watch gordon ramsay’s video on how to cook a lobster, he kills it in one second and prepares the lobster itself in about 2 minutes (im not sure if the video is shortened to be 2 minutes)
Most restaurants actually kill the lobster just before boiling.
You showed a clip of Gordon Ramsey in the video, but there’s another clip where he shows how to properly prepare and cook a lobster.
There’s a sweet spot in the shell around the head/neck region that allows for a quick, easy kill with a sharp knife. Then, after the deed is done, you plop the lobster into the pot and boil away.
It’s humane, and a more accurate representation of how most restaurants cook lobster, though there are some who do just drop the lobster in without a second thought.
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Well, not the MOST humane way to die for a human, but for an animal? Yeah.
Any death that is instant and painless is humane. If you’re trying to say that we shouldn’t eat lobster or whatever, I agree! XD I’m Jewish, so I don’t eat lobster anyways.
BUT, any death that is painless and instant is humane.
no they dont
Lmao so you think that a knife throught the shell to vital organs would feel any less painful
Awesome, thank you!
Hamza Har Than *boiling alive?!* Yes I think that's less painful 😂😂😂 Dear Lord
I always think how hungry did the first person who ate a lobster have to be to eat something that looks like a giant sea bug. Only to find out it’s freaking delicious!
Kind of like how hungry the first lobster to eat humans had to be to eat a hairless naked monkey.
Well I do remember watching an old UA-cam video and it did mention that “Lobsters were everywhere on the coasts once, they were even served as prison food.” So I guess I can see why some person decided “ooo really big sea bug, time to e a t”
@@Lobsterwithinternet Dang wow super funny
It's weirder how we find bugs gross. We should even like them because they are just so juicy and nutricious
Bruh there's always someone hungry enough
Gordon Ramsay from videos I’ve watched kills the lobster first and then immediately puts it in boiling water. I think he has the right idea.
It's just for another reason idk
Why do you think that
JaxonDouglas ?
JaxonDouglas why
@JaxonDouglas why is that wrong?
I can confirm, I dont feel pain when I touch a stove, my body just moves away as a reflex.
Well you are not a lobster 🦞
Oh then try jumping into boiling water
To be fair, when I accidentally touched things that are too hot there was indeed no pain involved.
The pain is simply too slow. It only comes way after my reflex already made me move away.
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I mean, as I’ve seen a lot, you can just kill the lobster right before boiling it
Yes
As long as it is right when you are about to boil it
@Romeo Angeles listen to 1:20. He said you only have a few hours before those bacteria arrive
@romeo angeles true but you can kill the lobsters immediately and boiled it like an actual human being
@romeo angeles Are you stupid? There's no difference in the taste if you kill before and then immediately boil it
Guy asks in thumbnail : Can lobsters feel pain?
Guy's answer : "Turns out we don't know"
That's the reason I'm here. Click bait done right
True answer is yes. Primitive or not but they have nervous system and pain is one of the most desired inputs it provides. Helps witg detecting danger so creature can avoid it early enough before it become fatal.
If lobsters pain is similar to ours feeling is another thing but you can bet it is not pleasant for them.
Ofc you cannot say that for 100%, but that is true for absolutly any being outside of your own. There is no real hard evidence you can gather that will claim that dogs feel pain. You can have convicing clues but from scientific point of view there will be no certainty.
Just say you dont care about the animals you kill for food
Another click bait
@@gigatrihard8607 so much stupid in this comment.
Even before I started watching Leon the Lobster videos, I thought boiling a lobster alive was cruel. I now think they very much feel pain. Leon seemed to have delayed movement in his large pincers after the rubber bands were removed and you can still see how deep a crevice the bands made after he molted.
Why don’t restaurants pith the brain before they drop it in the water? A skewer jabbed between the eyes and you can scramble their brain. We did that in biology class for the live frog dissection. Better for the lobster and helps keep the bacteria away.
wtf u did a live frog dissection?
@@snowwfps Yep. Honors Bio Two. Teach put all the frogs in a glass cylinder, dropped in a couple cotton balls soaked in chloroform then handed us a frog. We pithed the brain and started the vivisection.
The best part was the heart. He helped us cut it out and put it in petri dishes where we dripped epinephrine and succenylcholine to speed up and slow down the heart. As long as it has fluid it kept beating.
That class was freaking awesome!
Hah you watched Brady and Leon the lobster too. Great videos, made me appreciate the creatures more. I still eat them.
We've always dropped them headfirst, which does kill them instantly, or bisected their heads before dressing them the rest of the way for a pan or grill.
usually when I see someone cook shellfish they kill it then drop it in water. Didn't know that wasnt the standard tho
@@kevins4213 Does it actually kill them instantly? Cause if you drop a human in boiling water, it doesn't kill us right away. And we don't have an exoskeleton.
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On the topic of whether they feel pain, while I can’t be sure about Lobsters, there is considerable evidence that crabs do. Tests using electrical jolts show that crabs will flee from, and avoid, caves where they know they will get a nasty zap. Crabs have also been observed nursing injured legs, spending more time grooming their injured limb than the other, and actively avoiding putting weight on them.
Yeah! That's the type of comments I want to see everywhere. There are tons of people agreeing under every film, but rarely anyone post such cool comment discussing with a video and saying something cool. I love funfacts so thanks! I find this one it very cool.
I was looking for this comparison, I've also read about these experiments with crabs. Lobsters and crabs as very similar so if crabs feels pain so must lobsters.. Maybe he could replicate this experiment with Leon and document it to help millions of other lobsters that are being boiled alive..
this ``they feel no pain!`` excuse is a wile and outright demonic excuse that is also used when talking about circumcising baby boys. 100 percent horse shit, total lack of empathy
@@JessicaMeyer But they taste so good...
@@Hatemx1 They do indeed! Used to love them.. You know something also delicious that in principle don't feel pain? Bivalves, like oysters and mussels.. they would be a better option ethically speaking.
As a waiter in a restaurant that serves lobster, it's customary for our kitchen staff to cut the head down the middle before boiling it. It's more humane AND doesn't allow for bacteria to accumulate
More humane means still very cruel here.
@@NicoHeinrich Killing animals to eat them is just how nature works, at least there are humane ways to go about it.
@@NicoHeinrichnot at all
Meanwhile in an alternate universe:
"Do Humans feel pain when they are boiled?"
They trash around the pot, but it 's just a reflex response to the boiling water, not a conscious action. We don't know if their primitive nervous system can even feel pain. They certainly don't emit scream in radio wave, but it just because they don't even have the proper organ to do so.
Put a lid on the pot and we won’t really know. Just the steam escaping the pot
Well we scream sooo
😂😂😂😂
They do scream when held over boiling water.
Day one of Quarantine: YAAY
Day 7 of quarantine: *Watching lobsters being boiled alive*
Tang Tang i know right wkwk 😂😂
Tang Tang hahaha that’s me rn
Tang Tang yay
*meanwhile 4 months later*
Holy crap it’s been 5 months my god we’re did time go
Gordon ramsay stabs lobster first, then quickly boils them.
Yes but for complete morons they cant do gordon ramsay moves and just put it to boil alive
Humane 100
You have to chill them first really.
A FEW HOURS TO THE BACTERIA SHOW UP TO THE PARTY
@@tmzygy6413 listen to what the narrator said at 1:18. Bacteria incubation would take place only after few hours. If you first stab the lobster on head and then put it immediately in the boiling water, that would be most humane+hygienic way to devour
How to easily accept hell after death is to boil living beings when they are still alive and eat them
As a lobster I can confirm that we feel pain.
😂😂😂
;-;
Aren't you dead
@@priyanshuarora7432 He survived being boiled because he's made of metal. 🤣
Sweet now get in the pot
“Oh they can’t feel it”
Lobsters: “OH MOTHER OF GOD END MY SUFFERING AAAAAAAAAAH!”
good lord
I laughed. I’m a bad person
Is he in AGONY?
Or is it just a natural reflex?
Nah boy he just dancing
*IRAQ LOBSTER!*
Trini in d' house!
Dance til you're dead
I remember back in high school, my mother had a friend and her family visiting from away, and they decided to have lobster for dinner, as a treat for the guests. So we went to the store, stopped by the lobster tank... and saw that one of the lobsters wasn't moving. She immediately notified an employee, and someone came to collect the dead lobster, since they legally couldn't sell it dead for health reasons.
Most likely starved to death.
There was one episode of Kitchen Nightmares where he had them throw out the whole tank because of one dead lobster, seemed excessive though.
@@XeonProductions not excessive at all those bacteria once develope can contamine other living lobster. whole fishing boat full of lobster have been dumped few dead lobster
@@blaz_6762 This was at a supermarket, not a restaurant. I guess I wasn't clear enough about that.
@Tyler Lopes huh?
Fishing would be awkward and quite scary if fish and sorts of marine animals could scream.
Rome Blanchard i would laugh sounds like a comedy movie
Roberto G Dude, 'The Cove' would have you in stitches
yxkes just search "The Cove slaughter scene" into YT and click the first vid
Catfish sorta scream dude.. They make a pretty audible sound...
They probably do at a different frequency...
pretty sure them escaping the frying pan is a clear indication if they feel pain
C not necessarily, it could just be a common reflex to try to escape to stay alive it doesn’t necessarily mean they feel pain. However they do know when they are in danger otherwise they wouldn’t try and escape. So it’s hard to tell.
C you got your ass told
@@jonasplett172 which means boiling fears them. Fear is not more different than pain. They fear for the death and try to escape and it is really equivalent to some mental pain.
@@astroace4624 Fear isnt pain. Fear is ur brain telling you get tf out whatever situation your in. and mental pain in a lobster? really... animals dont think in the matter that you or i do, they just exist with the purpose of mating and surviving (as do we, but i believe we found reasons for the meaning behind our existences ).
@@jonasplett172
Off course they feel pain
R.i.p larry the lobster
Joshua Ortega living like Larry.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Choccymilk boiling like Larry
Joshua Ortega its a sentient being gut ddamn it..
Pinchy!!!
-Homer Simpson
Wait a min... His whole argument is "if a lobster dies you only have a few hours before the bacteria show up..." .
So why not just kill it before dropping it in the pan? I really thought it was going to be something more reasonable.
Chefs: Does it hurt when I boil you alive?
Lobster: isn't it obvious🦀🦀
Chefs: He didn’t clap 3 times let’s go.
That's a crab
It’s the same to say that plants fell pain, yes they do but i don’t care i’ll eat them anyway
@@artsy_izzybears1434 read the video title
@Patrick Laughing At Your Small PP read video title
If you click on the video to know if lobsters feel pain, the quick answer provided here is we don't know
Mohammed Aradi
Why not?
Do they have pain receptors or not?
bananian its not clear
bananian "pain receptors" are just nerves under to much pressure, they are the same thing, but our brains processes the information differently depending on the force used, this way, an animal can feel but can't be hurt (like spiders), but since a lobster's nerves are under an exoskeleton and are coated outside the meat, as opposed to within, it's likely that they don't feel pain, but we just don't know.
Lol Nao
I think It's specific receptors. Therr people who can't feel pain but can still feel hot and cold.
Lol Nao pain receptors are refferred to as nociceptors and they recept pain stimuli not just pressure
Does a lobster feel pain?
“No one really knows”
Should have started with that dude.
Edit: I think they changed the title of the video LOL now my comment doesn’t make any sense..
Clickbait
At thé same Time killing an unborn baby is a right
@@vavovidnica boo hoo
Well if you put them in the freezer they’ll go numb but I don’t know they probably do feel it
@@vavovidnica It´s not right to kill an unborn baby. You can remove a fetus, but that´s only because it does not have a neural network complex enough to allow awareness of itself or it´s environment. Even newborns do not show significant awareness but they are capable of and all it requires is learning. From this perspective it is very safe to say, that it was never alive, because as soon as it could develop awareness it is prohibited to get rid of an unborn.
Never eaten a lobster or crab in my life
Cool story bro
its gross asf
I wanted to taste lobsters lol
@@elimanning6231 Ok zoomer
Me either. Too arachnid-like.
Got this recommended after watching a video where a lobster cut his own claw off to escape the hot pot
Same
Holy shit that's so sad, u got a link? Why would you do that
@Luke Cheung
Here
m.ua-cam.com/video/qOOy01icc40/v-deo.html
Also it’s a crayfish (close to lobster)
Same here
Customer: Gets mad at lobster being boiled
Also Customer:(eats lobster)
I feel like the people who would be upset about lobsters being boiled alive probably are not eating lobster already.
Yeah no, except the people that get mad at lobsters being cooked alive aren't the same people that eat lobster...
Ironic doesn't it ?
They're not getting mad at them being boiled. They're mad at them being boiled ALIVE. If they were humanely killed directly prior to the boiling I don't think anyone would be mad.
Yoshi Go listen to the video, it will explain to you why they don’t do that. All you have to do is press play on the video above
In my opinion, if a living creature can feel threat or scared, I think they can feel pain too.
Better them than me
@@spacebxyfriend I’ll come whoop on you cuz
Even if they don’t, which I’m certain they do, i would still feel a lot better at night
obviously. can't believe it's even a question.
Noone cares
I can now confirm that my phone is officially spying on me. I was just talking to my partner about this exact topic, 2 nights ago. Asking this exact question. 😱
I bet you can't merge a spider, a shrimp , a scorpion and a crab together, oh ..and a cockroach...
Poseidon: hold my beer...
This deserves more likes.
RJ Records Entertainment bear do you mean beer?
Evelyn Sanchez it’s a meme
The funny thing is, I own everything you just listed as pets 😂...minus the shrimp. Theyre just feeders.
Well all those animals you mentioned belong to phylum arthropoda, so they’re very similar to each other.
Only humans can Just say "Since they don't scream, They don't feel pain"
Wrong lol they're nervous system does?
Justa Sarcasshole that’s not even close to what he said. There’s a misconception that the sound of steam escaping the shells is the lobster screaming. The video was just clearing up that misconception. He also literally said that we don’t know if they feel pain or not. Way to just make shit up dude.
Justa Sarcasshole must be vegan
Lobsters just want to be left alone
They are sueing humans for 1000000000 quadrillion dollars
all animals feel pain
Just kill right before boiling like Gordon Ramsay demonstrated in his How to cook lobster video seems like the best option
Ryan Reid *omae wa mou* robatasaru-san!
Ryan Reid true lol I don't think it's gonna change the flavor at all and you avoid inflicting to the lobster a way of death that seems straight out of a medieval torture rule book
When i was in cooking college we put them in the freezer for 20 mins before cooking.
I don't think he kills it. He pierces the nervous system or vertebrae or something so it doesn't feel pain
I'm wrong haha
I can't believe the guy narrating was more concerned about nausea and cramps if you get bacteria from a lobster. Never mind the fact the lobster is dead. Not a thought for the animal. If cramps and nausea really bothers you then here's an idea. DON'T EAT A LOBSTER. Let the animal live instead of thinking about yourself
YES
Lobster: I’m a friendly boi
Boiling pot: I’m about to end this man whole career
XDD, but i think is actually Im about to end this mans whole career
Not just career
They're not charles leclerc
your basically boiling a armored spider
Yep IKR
I’ve always refused to eat them for this reason. Personally, I believe they do feel pain. Like all living creatures, the biological function of pain is to warn something is wrong. If pain wasn’t such a thing, animals would get harmed easily and die without even realising what is going on.
Then... go on, lobsters don’t rot in minutes. There is no need to put a completely conscious one in a pot...! They could be stunned or made unconscious, or their nervous system could be somehow damaged so they don’t feel anything, and only then boiled.
Exactly like slaughterhouse animals, the law doesn’t allow them to be bled to death before they are unconscious (shot in the head or electro stunned).
We should be more respectful to creatures bred or caught to be our food... and avoid unnecessary suffering.
Either way, the Lobster dies before cooking. You can spare it boiling to death by cutting it in half through its head or just boil the whole thing whole.
A lot of fishermen put their fish/lobsters/other sealife on ice before cooking. It helps them fall into a deep sleep that makes it impossible for them to even know what's going on. A quick and painless way to prep.
I agree, thats the best way to do it. Freeze them so that they're unconscious then boil them alive. Saves you from getting ill if you cook it that way, or you can just cut through the head.
I rather boil them makes it taste better
funny how u make this moral decision based on the fact that they are boiled alive but are completely fine with the fact that they are killed so u can have the pleasure of taste
3:17 “...so bullying lobsters alive.”
"... Is not a good idea..."
Hes right, bullying them dead is better
I can't believe we do this
@@getoutnubs don't say we I don't eat Lobster so get it right
LOL
Every animal feels pain, otherwise it couldn't survive.
Not every animal
@@alord80 Yes,ALL!! animals have a nervous system,so therefore they feel pain!! It's basic biology!!
@@iancannon2825 you are wrong
@@iancannon2825 pls don’t reply because i don’t want to argue
*hold up, this ain't no hot tub ?? wh-*
*dies*
lmao these comments got me rolling
Livin' like Larry bois
J J monkaGun
J J i don't want to live like Larry
LMAO
BHAHAHAHAHA
top comment and its about livin like larry
A marine biologist was on one of my cooking shows, and he said that if you're worried about the lobster experiencing pain, you should put them in the freezer for about a half hour before boiling them. They go into something like a hibernation when they're in a very cold place.
It nums there pain
I don't know if freezing them to death is so much better
stvia They go in a hibernation process, don't you know what hibernating means? It means they sleep for a long time, SLEEP, in otherwords they wont even know when or how they get killed
The actual chef answer is don't do this because that affects the quality of their meat.
Really, there is a very specific way to cut them which instantly kills them before they 'can feel pain' due to the way you cut them and the location not having nerve endings.
Griffin Tarampi Cutting them in half vertically is probably the best way to go. That will probably kill most things quickly.
If someone thinks that lobster dont feel pain if they are boiled alive , those people should try to boil themselves to check
I don't know if Australia actually has laws around boiling them alive, but I do know that killing them first, BEFORE boiling them is standard restaurant practice. They do this by cutting them in two right down the centre in one quick motion and then throwing them into a boiling pot. This is pretty much standard practice around Australia and the islands and is said to be the most humane way of dispatching them.
Odds are they can feel pain. Even if they couldn't, they can tell differences in temperature. It's an extremely uncomfortable experience. Just kill them right before cooking it's NOT THAT HARD
ElixR イーサン #savethelobesters 😭😭
Actually it's very hard to kill a lobster, and stabbing it in the head is pointless. Lobsters and other invertebrates do not have a single brain, but several small things called ganglia. These are about the size of the ball in a ball point pen. An expert in lobster anatomy would be lucky to hit them. In switzerland they use specialist equipment to electrocute the lobster to death before cooking.
Stabbing it in the head just causes more suffering.
whyyousobudu just because it has more than one brain does not mean it isn’t dead once you stab it in the head
@@blimpy8263 just because someones brain isnt in their hand doesn't mean you won't kill them instantly by stabbing them in the hand. That's how you sound.
PoopScoop2525 🤦♀️
After watching a crawfish PULL OFF IT'S OWN CLAW just to avoid being boiled alive. I think its safe to say they can feel pain and therefore try to avoid it as much as possible.
Plus they are possibly quite smart.
Crabs do that in the wild. Is not "to avoid being boiled" lol.
@@siqsa9607 they do it to avoid death not just "being boiled alive" obviously...
Why did I laugh so hard that I fell of my chair reading this? 😂
i thinks is quite hard to feel pain when you don’t have a brain and your nervous system is simpler than an insect’s
Lobsters can feel pain, the myth where lobsters can’t feel pain is just to make the person who cooks it less bad but in fact they are more sensitive to heat than us so they feel more pain than if we were cooked alive
Its actually debated in neuroscience. The involved neurologists aren't stupid.
Being sensitive and feeling pain are two different things. Did you ever have your reflex pull you away from something before you actually felt why? Thats because you can be sensitive to something and act accordingly, without an actual feeling being involved.
Nobody knows weither lobsters feel pain. The only thing we know is that there are people who are delusional enough in their lack of knowledge that they believe otherwise.
Wrong. They have a primitive system to detect something wrong, not feel pain like human does. They do not posses this brain function.
@@AliothAncalagonwhatever helps you sleep at night
@@Will777-x5l If lobsters manage to prevent you from sleeping at night, you should put them back in the tank, before going to sleep.
@@AliothAncalagon I feel pretty confidant in stating that lobsters do not feel pain - I can go into the neuroscience debate if you want, and why I think one side is ridiculously and obviously off the mark, but the short version is that pain is a relatively complex neurological function, the actual mechanics of which we understand pretty damn well. Animals such as lobsters lack the neurological framework to feel pain, meaning it is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for them to do so, at least using any meaningful definition of the word 'pain'.
None of which is to say they aren't still suffering in some way from being boiled alive, though. I don't imagine that's a pleasant experience just by having a body that evolved without a pain response.
I am working as a waiter at a Seafood restaurant as a part time job, the cooks literally keep at least 5 lobsters in tiny boxes for days stored in fridges before then being cooked alive, it is disturbing and absolutely disgusting. This is the "behind the scenes“ experience of "fine" dining.
That's to keep them in a dorment stage. Basically like putting someone into a coma. They don't feel cold like we do. What ends up happening is there entire nervous system detects the temperature shift and goes into autopilot survival mode. Sorta like hibernation. It's probably the most humane way to dispatch a lobster if you stab it in the head before cooking and not boiling alive.
So they aren’t fresh .
Stop complaining about your First world problems. People are starving
@@uncleruckus3930 he’s not complaining about his own problems dude lmao
Mate you don't want the humans to get food poisoning
But is it cruel to boil vegans alive?
Tony Fisher naahhhh it isn't cruel nobody likes vegan also boiling them alive is very tasty though
Tony Fisher maybe?
Tony Fisher nah.
Yes it is because their humans.
Tony Fisher have you try using bit spice on them yet?
Why don't you just learn how to speak lobster and ask them?
AMakki7491 They don't have vocal cords or lungs bruh
LOGIC 👆
BestGlaive in the world pretty sure he knew that
Did you not here what he said on 2:16
The Candy Man I hope you are joking. Because his comment was complete sarcasm... If you didnt already know...
Just by action u can tell that the lobster feels pain or not, i saw one hanging at the edge of a cooking pot with its claws and the other cut off its arm which was in the boiling soup well it seems that the boiling environment is not pleasant for it so it reacts by trying to get away its a corrective measure ig so i do believe they feel pain
Boiling lobsters is bad because they feel pain
That's why I don't boil them, just straight out eat them alive.
Mr. Person Humanson ;)
Are you crazy?
I boil them alive all the time. I see no problem with it.
Nolan Chojnacki you missed the joke
superclaw900. Oh crap my bad
I feel like the default shouldn't be "as long as we are not sure that it can actually feel pain, we can boil it alive for our own pleasure."
Humanity is fucked....
It was never for pleasure. It is still the best way to cook lobster. It’s just whether or not it’s worth it.
@@kaijuslayer3334 how is most food not eaten if not out of pleasure. Do you like eating lobster? Then it is out of pleasure. Eating lobster in the western world has nothing to do with survival. It only has to do with pleasure. The nutrients can be easily obtained without boiling a creature alive or eating a creature at all🤷🏻♀️
@@luchan1638 the same could be said about any food, I enjoy eating beef and chicken, does that mean I only do it for pleasure? No I do it because the human body requires the protein the meat provides, That I like it is just a bonus. Besides, If you live on the coast, lobster could be a part of your everyday diet. That being said, there isn't any reason not to kill the lobster before you put it in the pot.
@@sleven1160 that's my point :b. Animal products do not hold a Monopol on any nutrients or vitamines. You can easily find them somewhere else. Unless of course you have to eat lobster or any other animal product to survive because you don't have access to many other food sources. If you like your views being challenged I'd like you to watch the video "a meat eaters case for veganism" by cosmic sceptic or debates on veganism earthling ed has done on the topic. It made me change my point of view on the foods I've been eating since birth
Agreed
I just kill it right before boiling. Seems more humane.
Peter Liotta yeah so does Gordon
lmao i like your profile pic
Don't kill it ! Leave it alone and go vegan ! That's something more than humane
Randika Mendis How about no
Randika Mendis stop forcing people to turn vegan, it’s our life, it’s our diet. we’ll respect your choice and you respect ours too
Do you kill every crawfish before cooking? Why should lobster be any different
Here's your lobster with a side of unnecessary suffering.
Here's your checkmark a side with free likes on your comments
@@jo_lar507 don't hate the player hate the game
@@Apalapse 👍
Ok thanks I will enjoy the meal 😋
Just the way I love it.
Chef Ramsey kills his lobster before cooking
Remember kiddos, killing lobsters with specialized equipment is very expensive and is very hard to maintain, Chef Ramsey has a 3 Michelin star restaurant. Not all places have the luxury of it.
pretty sure its just cus he kills it (with a knife) and cook it immediately but aight
@@thedaboink9202 oh I thought he meant the special equipment that places in Switzerland etc use. It's basically fries the lobster with electricity. But that's weird, lobster brains are spread throughout. One stab to the head shouldn't kill it, at most it might paralyze it.
Chef Ramsey just cut their head before cooking. Do we know if its really dead and dont feel anything after?
@@Umigamingz id assume so if its head has been split in two
Personally I boil lobsters because I hate them and their way of life
Lmfao 😂😂
That's funny and cringy
Sigurd Torvaldsson comment of the week
lmao why did this make me laugh
Dude mee too.
They absolutely feel pain, I worked in a seafood department for 36 years. Crustaceans deteriorate very quickly once dead. Cooking alive assures freshness. A way to avoid the horrifying boiling alive aspect is to drive a knife point down between the head and the tail, or even better, put them in the freezer a few hours to stun them. Lobsters can live outside of water a few days if kept damp and very cold
They do not, and you have zero facts and evidence proving that their whole nervous system only detects something wrong but they don't actually feels sensory pain like humans do. They do not posses this portion of the brain responsible for this.
This sounds better.
Title: Can lobsters feel pain?
Me: *_OBSERVE_*
Good one
Larry!
Yeajmh this is the stupids question ever.....
In Australia, well at least New South Wales, chefs are banned from cooking live seafood. It was determined, if the move, they a nervous system, if they have a nervous system, they feel pain. Chef's who come here from other nations take the practice of freezing them first to put them into a very deep hibernation before cooking.
But you can have an abortion up to the date of delivery
@@scottydu81 don't think that is legal in Australia, if it is, it would 1 or 2 states only.
Save to say it’s full of dumbos first release deadly 🦠
Why I actually stated "well at least New South Wales"
You don't freeze them, you just leave them in the fridge for a while.
I am happy there is a good amount of people saying you should not boil them alive. It is horrifying to be boiled alive
Yeah it was a bad experience for me when I was boiled alive can confirm
Indeed getting boiled alive is a very unplesant experience
@@AmericanVangaurd same here. Hate when that happens!
Yum yum yum boiled lobster
There is a reason humans are at the absolute top of the food chain. We can and we will eat what we want. As long as it doesn't endanger the species in terms of it going extinct, then i say fair game. No animal or other species should be treated as valuable as a human life. Obviously i dont want animals going extinct. But a dead cat or lobster is FARRR less of a big deal than a dead human.
Its actually not necessary. Ive seen many lobsters cooked and eaten after being killed "humanely" in videos. the bacteria doesn't reproduce THAT quickly.
But why don't you kill it right before boiling it
like wtf is wrong with doing that
you can cut slide a knife through its head, and the put it straight into the pan
*mindblown*
Sunny shah thank you
Chris no, thank you
Oh I see what you did there...
Who gives a shit
Str8UpSavage762 the thousand lobsters painly killed
Can you feel it now Mr. Krabs?
copied someone elses comment
Enrique Galindo Mr. Crabs is not a lobster
It's krabs can you read
Larry the loster
Enrique Galindo thank u
The vibrio bacteria is found on the flesh of decaying shellfish. then why do we only boil lobsters alive but not shrimp and other shellfish?
You can end it before chucking it in if you want.
Also mussels and other clam types are boiled alive
Why not kill the lobster humanely right before boiling it is the real question
It isn't as fun that way.
+ziljin Did You See The Other Reasons?
X O do you think lobsters care about the suffering of the other animals that they pinch chunks off of to eat?
The hubris to think that pain is anything else than a reflex response to danger.
When I was a child, a family friend came by and said she cooks the best crab. As a kid, I loved crab. Then I saw her putting the crab in the pot and as it’s boiling, the crab was wiggling (like swimming) and I was traumatized and stopped eating crabs for like 10 years.
My grandma put a lobster in and it started wiggling
@Christopher Philip Reyes plants are also living things 🤔
@Christopher Philip Reyes I’m all for eating animals as long as it’s not barbaric, and the animals don’t feel pain, and we don’t treat them like they do in china where they skin and boil dogs alive
@@Rounderyathecruel China doesnt eat dogs anymore, your racist idea of China is so outdated please stop acting like the country you're living in is any better
@@Rounderyathecruel what do u mean that animals don’t feel pain???
Please don't boil lobsters alive. Or even eat us.
We hold grudges very, very easily.
Yes, Glorious Lobster Emporer.
* munching on lobster meat
“Uh, sure thing”
Hail the Emperor of the Lobsters!👑
I'm gonna to red to red lobster despite never eating a lobster...ill do it just to spite you.
With claws that big ; no doubt.
It’s all fine when someone boils a lobster alive
But when I do it with people everybody has a problem with it
-just a turtle
Hmm, I don't dislike veganism but this isn't a good way to promote it.
Typical turtle. 🙄
Why do you quote yourself in your own comment?
@@thiccspidey2127 because turtle
@@thiccspidey2127 hes trying to be a fUni MonKe
every living thing can exprience pain
if anything can experience joy
if anything is eating something or taking diet from something
Wait ... so Larry must be half boiled since he’s red but still alive
Thats his tan
Bruh-
@@MrChukinorris Since when do lobsters tan i-
@@adalovelacestan4640 It's spongebob, there is underwater beaches
@@MrChukinorris i mean, still lol
Parallel universe they boil us alive
1 sub with One video
And they will say that we don’t feel pain so it doesn’t matter.
I hope that they eat us as deliciously as we eat them.
Yeah and they may not hear our blood curdling screams and think it’s alright....It’d be like, they don’t feel pain....haha! Thank god im a human and living in this parallel world!
This universe : we've done that too 😕
(Example : middle ages, Europe, popular torture technique)
Chuck Norris eats lobster then drinks boiling water
Why is this so underrated
Patrick Pizarro A Chuck Norris joke. How original.
the water vaporizes instantly on contact with Chuck Norris
@@miipmiipmiip Chuck Norris once uppercutted a zebra and turned it into a giraffe
When does Chuck Norris leave the bar? When Haku walks in.
When I was a kid, my mom used to put them in the freezer for 15 minutes before putting them in the pot.
She said it put them to sleep and they didn't feel a thing, when I asked. I remember coming home frozen stiff when I was playing outside in -25C, and hot water felt like fire... So I always figured she was making it up.
Mom lied lol
Putting crustaceans in the freezer effectively acts as a sedative. They are cold blooded animals, so the effectively are unconcious when at freezing temperatures. Its nothing like mamals (humans) coming in from cold weather and hot water warming your skin. Your mom want lying.
This is NOT living like Larry
Dank Matter any spongebob reference is a good reference
Dying like Larry
Dank Matter 😨....
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Agreed, should be banned, especially serving it alive. Even Gordon Ramsey said you could just stab it in the head before putting it in
Rugby latest News that causes pain too??
But its a quick death rather than being bolied.....
Ayesha Ahmareen next banning that will be on the table...its a slippery slope...created from a ridiculous argument. No man should have the say over what another can do. Yet people demand this, all based purely on emotions and sacrificing the logic just to feel better.
circusboy90210 would you rather have your nervous system shut down in half a second or boil your flesh
Erik Ghostwood and the crew you have to realize, we are not talking about a pointless death like murder. This is the process needed to serve a type of food to hungry people. In my opinion, caring about what your meal felt while it was alive is purely idiotic
Has anyone else noticed how people pay big money to eat sea bugs
I mean, it’s like God (or nature, depending on what you believe in) didn’t want us to eat them cuz he put these “bugs” at the bottom of the deep ocean and put a shell on them
lord dankius memeious 2 if u read the bible, we cant actually eat it... But i don't think most people follow the bible
ya eeww icant eat shrimp or anything looks like it. Theyre gross looking
Rare stuff cost more
Gregory Shane I read the bible, and I can assure you, we can eat them.
Surprised there was no discussion of the alternative. Instakill cut to the head seconds before throwing the now dead lobster in the pot. It's a quick extra step, that prevents the whole boiling alive thing.
Takes longer to serve customers that way
@@Jollyjose251 only a few seconds more.
@@Dr.Gehrig Only for one Lobster, what I’m talking about is multiple
@@Jollyjose251 so get help. Assembly line it for what, 20 seconds, cool.
@@Dr.Gehrig They need the other chefs to be doing other jobs
2:21 "What you do hear is air and steam escaping from their shells" reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Hans Moleman was trying to tell Dr Hibbet he's not dead yeat, and Dr Hibbet told Marge "don't mind him, thats just air escaping"
No lobsters were harmed while making this video.
Ishan Kethes shiiiiiiiiiiit .
Actuuuuaaaaalllyyyy... who’s gonna tell them?
Yeah right lol
We know
Technically, the video was made my obtaining old clips, so those lobsters were long dead when this video was being made.
Lobster: trying to escape hotpot of death
Humans: hmm im not sure if it feels pain...
I wonder...
* starts throwing people into boiling pots of water *
This can't be real. Everything that is living feel pain get the f*** out of here.Just because it can't talk don't mean it don't have a f****** nervous system
@@oneluv9546 no consciousness so idc
They ain't sentient beings dumb dumb
@@benitoquevedo4843 I beg to differ.
this is why i've never eaten lobster , nor crawfish , and I'm from texas , but was originally raised in Louisiana as a kid so yeha i'm an odd southern that doesn't eat crawfish.
Do it like Gordon he kills them seconds before he boils them. It's the best of both worlds.
Roberta Trevino they die either way lol doesn't matter how we do it tbh.
If someone gave me the option of dying quickly with a knife to the head or to be boiled alive, I'd choose the former. I guess they can boil you since you don't care.
The point is, Roberta, is that nobody knows if they feel pain. You could treat them as they do (as stated by that British man in the video) but I mean, who knows if they don't feel pain when we chop their head in half?
Maybe we can feel a slight pain before death, but do they as well? And I was told that they die almost instantly at high heat anyway... IMO It's the same, just an easier and less gruesome way.
As the video and you state, we don't know. So why not just kill them fast instead of wondering if they feel pain as we boil them alive?
because it doesnt matter.
They are shellfish the most they feel is probably what happens to the exoskeleton.
why cant just kill lobsters before boiling them quickly after taking from tanks in a less painful way
What do you suggest is a less painful way ? Btw I am sure they can feel pain. Pain is one of the most primitive sensations. It helps by telling you that you are in danger (when common sense is not fully present, like in animals with a less developed brain). This should be obvious.
typedef Pain is a naturally modern way of receiving those messages from the brain. The more intense the message, in this case the agony, the better chances of noticing body injures and preventing them to get any worse. Just like the video explained, it is NOT possible to know if lobsters truly feel pain, because they don't show OUR signs of pain. Also we don't speak lobster. They may simply receive brain info telling them that their organism is being attacked, but it doesn't necessarily mean they HAVE to feel pain, agony, stress, sadness... Viruses, bacteria, small organisms in general almost certainly do not feel pain, due to a poor neural system. Pain didn't just pop outta nowhere, it has evolved and upgraded until us, mammals. Lobsters are old as heck, why do they have to have a similar neural system to ours, but not bacteria's?
Lots of chefs already do that. Take it from the tank, pierce the brain, boil. Not all do but a lot.
+prasad ramesh
The real question is, why can't you eat something else?
Xrystofer Soule he could but he wants lobster.
4 minutes to say “idk”
It actually explains why we boil them. Because of a certain strain of bacteria that thrives on dead lobsters. Not only does it form after only a few hours alot of it cannot be removed by cooking. So it's safer to cook them live. And as for my opinion on the 'morality' thing, i dont think it's realistic we stop at least not right away or all at once. Especially if we arent even sure they FEEL pain.
@@zanrath91 Ok so I know very little about cooking lobsters but I do know for a fact that there is no bacteria (or any organism, for that matter) that could ever survive a boiling. This is simply because the very molecular bonds that form life of earth break at such temperatures. So could you link me to a study/article about this? As for the pain, they obviously won't feel pain the same way we do, buy do have a sensory nervous system so anyone claiming that 'they don't feel anything' is talking out of their ass really.
i'm just quoting what the video says.
There's a simple solution to this though, if you wanna eat lobster but don't wanna hurt it, just put it on the table and put a sharp pick of some kind through the back of its head, or use a large knife to quickly decapitate it and then boil it, it's literally that simple.
Don't boil living creatures guys
to let them know, in their last moments, that they lost the war
lmao
their*
Apollo The Impaler nerd...honestly I'm surprised I missed this, good catch
So why not just kill it right before u boil it? This makes no sense fr.
Because it will die when you boil it. Nobody has time to do that extra step
@꧁Charky32꧂•8 years ago Or you know, boiling a lobster kills it way more faster and without pain then ramming a knife through the lobster multiple times before you actually kill it. Plus the spooky lobster bacteria is already inside, so it's more safe to kill all the bacteris rather than having the chance the bacteria colony will grow large enough to be harmful
I also want to call you an eleven year old for how gay and naive your comment was.
@@gherwinpacheco8617 your* comment shows how stupid you are
@@gherwinpacheco8617 didn't you die in someone else body LMAOOO
@@rogaldorn9175 ... lol intellectual with wrong spelling.... you dont ram knife... u stab it at the back of the head and it dies intantly. Cooking it in boiling water will kill it within few seconds... pls dont put your ignorant ass comments in internet tyvm
I love what the last person stated. Always error on the side of caution when it comes to ethics.
Err on the side of caution is the phrase.
I’ve never thought about it this way but I actually like “error” better.
@@fvcrobert6944 The issue is that "error" is a noun. You can't error. It's not an action you can take. _Err,_ on the other hand, is a verb. So you _can_ err, you can't error, just like you can leave but you can't leaf.
@@fvcrobert6944 You can't just decide you like your misheard version better, that's not what he said
It makes zero sense to not kill the lobster right before you boil it.
dont see why they cant be killed just before being cooked
ri lee they do idiot
Some people kill it then boil it
why so serious? So why is the vid all about boiling them alive if they kill them before boiling
Bacteria will build up and could make you sick
Men....
Its a male thing guaranteed.....
Im a Male.
Sometimes, I forget how cruel we actually are.
LM10 Ru Reh boiling lobsters makes us cruel?
Jan Rosas Nvm
+Jan Rosas yes
Its nature. Most predators in nature eat their prey alive and I don't see you complaining how a lion is cruel
Lemuel Hui when animals kill their prey they usually go for a swift quick kill unless ur a snake that's crushing something. either way though boiling an animal alive is messed up. how about I boil you alive and feed you to my pet tiger? same logic sooooo
Is this the dark web
get back in the pot
Oof no
its two blocks down past the abortion clinic
Why my family?
Egg With Legg this is the best comment I’ve seen in the 5 years I’ve been on this app
That lobster's split head and slowly rinsing it with water is such a stomach churning clip
This is why Chefs in Europe kill the lobster before boiling it.
Boiling them alive is unethical.
And creepy.
You go ahead and eat it dead before cooking, I'll send you a "get well" card when you're in the hospital. 😂
@Oritra Kar They kill the lobster right before boiling it.
How are the few seconds of it beeing dead gonna cause you diarrhea?
Eating animals overall is sick and disgusting
@@oneel3859 I mean almost every animal does it.
So why not just kill the lobster immediately before cooking it? That's a practice that many places do follow. If you notice in some of the footage the lobster head has been split down the middle. Though it may move a bit afterwards, that is a dead lobster
Cory M you can do that, but it's not really any better than just boiling it right away
Serenity Scratch its a far faster way to kill a lobster. They might not survive "long" in boiling water, but there's no need to cause anything more than the minimal amount of suffering. Boiling alive is definitely not the fastest practical way to end the lobsters life.
Serenity Scratch Serenity Scratch Ofcourse it is. Why would you let an animal have so much pain while you can also end it quickly?
Bacteria can multiple faster then you thing...
Firman N yeah... Not that fast. I have a doctorate in pharmacy. The time between cutting lobster and throwing it in a pot shouldn't be long in any reputable kitchen.
Many chefs actually kill the lobster right before cooking. Only lazy chefs don't bother, and I wouldn't want to eat a lazy chef's food.
C North I dont think you can even call that being lazy. How hard is it to stab it quickly trough the skull? I can only atribute this behaviour to being mentally deranged
Slime watch gordon ramsay’s video on how to cook a lobster, he kills it in one second and prepares the lobster itself in about 2 minutes (im not sure if the video is shortened to be 2 minutes)
C North e
Shut up
The end result is the same. You dont really care. Stop lying to yourself.
Answer is “we don’t know”
There you go, saved you 4 mins of your life