So just reeling this back to the original question of whether or not Lobsters suffer when boiled.....
Has any sort of empirical testing of any sort been done to provide an answer or is all the discussion based on assumption?
And how did it come about in the first place, and then become accepted as the 'standard', that plunging the Lobster into boiling water (or the Boiling Water Method or 'BWM' as I am now calling it) was the best (or least worst) way of cooking them?
Who was the first person to decide to cook a whole Lobster in this BWM way rather than dispatching it first with a well aimed blow from something most likely rather sharp?
And did the BWM exist beforehand for other shellfish and then was just adopted for Lobster too?
And have any similar decapods been tested to see if they suffer in the BWM too?
I know that there is a common 'survival' cooking method if you are near geothermal vents that you can tie a string around a joint of meat and drop it into the extremely hot water to cook it. Maybe this was something that brought about the BWM for shellfish too?
Has any sort of empirical testing of any sort been done to provide an answer or is all the discussion based on assumption?
And how did it come about in the first place, and then become accepted as the 'standard', that plunging the Lobster into boiling water (or the Boiling Water Method or 'BWM' as I am now calling it) was the best (or least worst) way of cooking them?
Who was the first person to decide to cook a whole Lobster in this BWM way rather than dispatching it first with a well aimed blow from something most likely rather sharp?
And did the BWM exist beforehand for other shellfish and then was just adopted for Lobster too?
And have any similar decapods been tested to see if they suffer in the BWM too?
I know that there is a common 'survival' cooking method if you are near geothermal vents that you can tie a string around a joint of meat and drop it into the extremely hot water to cook it. Maybe this was something that brought about the BWM for shellfish too?