Do lobsters feel pain? #shorts #science #SciShow

Emma Dauster: Writer
Attabey Rodríguez Benítez: Script Editor
Luke Rosener: Fact Checker
Bonnie Meyer: Managing Editor
Savannah Geary: Editor, Associate Producer, Host
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[ono]

Aliens probing humans: "Don't worry, humans don't feel pain like we do."

[jackf]

“Would you rather be stabbed in the face, or boiled alive?”

Sir, this is a Wendy’s…

[ruecumbers]

Honestly, respect to the chefs that play it humanely safe.

[martlettoo]

I guess I just have "don't boil living things alive" as one of my general rules. I know, weird.

[Case]

Doctors used to think babies didn’t feel pain, so they performed surgery on them without anesthesia. That continued into the mid NINETEEN EIGHTIES.

Edit: for those doubting the veracity of this, just google something like “babies surgery without anesthesia”. The first result for me was an article from Harvard School of Medicine. It begins with: “It was a centuries-old notion that had profound ramifications for medicine: Infants, especially those born prematurely, felt little or no pain.” There are lots of other articles stating the same as well.

[pokepreet]

I feel like pain is so evolutionary advantageous to all species that it's probably safe to assume they feel some sort of pain cuz a species that didnt feel pain wouldnt be on the planet that long

[xsamthingelse]

I know that Gordon Ramsay explained that cutting through the head before boiling is more humane like that because it quickly kills it and it feels the less pain possible

[zobugz]

doctors used to believe that women and babies couldnt feel pain for a embarrassingly long time 😭

[Kouu]

People used to think babies didn’t feel pain

[r.fo.]

I always cut my lobster before boiling and everyone should too. It’s not that hard and even if it may or may not make a difference, it’s just more humane

[EmpererDevian]

Use to work at Red Lobster (not as a chef) and it literally takes 2 seconds to make sure those guys go out before they even realize something is happening. No reason not to do it humanely.

[CristianNavia]

I saw a cartoon of two giant lobsters about to throw a human baby into a boiling pot and one says to the other "don't worry, it's just the air escaping their bodies"

[lvbboi]

"Chef, turn off my pain receptors"

[gangatalishis]

takes 5 seconds to kill it with a knife, no reason to be cruel even if it doesnt feel pain.

[tobyatlas]

Regardless of whether or not they feel pain, they definitely know they're dying slowly which is terrifying. If you're gonna kill a lobster, do it quickly.

[Lalalalalalalall]

Remember that before doctors thought babies didn't feel pain so they didn't use anesthesia.

[lordvess]

The ol' "one foot chef knife to the cranium" always makes sure my conscience is guilt free and my lobster is not boiled alive.

[charlesmoody]

I'm pretty sure anything living feels some kind of discomfort when boiled alive I think that's a little obvious if you ask me people just want to not feel as bad that's just my opinion

[Kevin]

Yeah, the belief that lobsters can't feel pain just feels too convenient to me.
Sounds like something we would tell ourselves specifically to assuage guilt for boiling something alive.

[saidchammas]

Always cut the head (straight down the middle is the way to do it). If there's a possibility that they do feel pain, then why risk making them suffer that pain for the last seconds of their lives? It's literally just one extra step.