And on another tack
- why do you suppose electrocution is less painful for the lobster? It's pretty damn painful for humans. The electric chair has always struck me as a particularly barbaric thing.
Has anyone made a comparative study? How long it takes to die, type of convulsions and so on? Since they claim to know lobsters can feel pain, they should be able to measure intensity and duration.
Of course, you'd have to kill a lot of lobsters in the tests.
Edit: Fluttermoth, I wasn't thinking about you specifically as a bleeding heart, that was aimed at the people who got the rules about slaughtering sheep changed. Which seem to have caused more suffering rather than less.