Science indicates that lobsters are interesting animals who, like all animals, have the capacity to feel pain. Lobsters have pain receptors and other neurological structures that sense and respond to negative stimuli, and they may suffer more intensely than other animals because their brains don’t have pain-dulling mechanisms as ours do. Aside from having pain receptors, lobsters also clearly act as if they feel fear and pain when they are taken from their underwater homes, held captive in crowded tanks, and eventually dropped into boiling water. As the truth about lobsters emerges, more people are now realizing that boiling a lobster is no better than boiling a cat or a dog.

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