Do Lobster's feel pain?

[phg]

That's the unanswered question on which Whole Foods decided to base its decision to quit selling live lobsters:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_bi_ge/live_lobsters

Personally, I think they were just trying to appease some of their more fanatical vegetarian customers.  I suspect that lobsters don't bring in any great amount of profit....

[Woolly Bugger]

I never have bought a lobster from a supermarket...

I go here to eat lobster....

http://www.mainefreshlobster.com/

[Silver Creek]

That's the unanswered question on which Whole Foods decided to base its decision to quit selling live lobsters:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060615/ap_on_bi_ge/live_lobsters

Personally, I think they were just trying to appease some of their more fanatical vegetarian customers.  I suspect that lobsters don't bring in any great amount of profit....

Pain is different than sense of touch since pain is the brain's interpretation of touch. Pain is a higher brain function and is located in the neocortex. Fish and lobsters do not have a neocortex, ergo they do not feel pain.

When we hook a fish, what does it do? It pulls against the hook. If we were to put a look through our lips, what would we do? We would meekly follow the pull to reduce the pain. The behavior of the fish to being hooked shows that what it feels is not pain as we humans know pain.

http://www.cotrout.org/do_fish_feel_pain.htm

http://www.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalwelfare/Fish%20pain/Pain.htm