@The Observer wrote:
Tosh!
Leading chef Gordon Ramsey explains exactly how to kill live lobsters and how it makes him feel. “You always feel better after killing something. I do… stab the head off a lobster. You feel all the better for it… God knows how many I’ve killed… plunge them into boiling court bouillon, and their tails flip up and they scream and you can hear their claws scraping on the sides, and I got great pleasure out of that.” (The Independent Magazine, 12th October 2003).
The Shellfish Network say that when lobsters are placed into boiling water they ‘behave wildly, whipping their tails and trying to escape’. Death can take anything from 15 seconds up to 7 minutes.
It is a myth that lobsters gradually fall unconscious if the water is slowly brought to the boil. Lobsters who have not first been transported or confined will shake, tremble, struggle and flip violently as the temperature is increased.
You try sitting in a bath of water and gradually raise the temperature to boiling point and see if it is humane :lol:
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ive done lobsters an crabs in college an we just put them in cold water an heat it gradually they just fall asleep, better than plungin em into scolding water an hearin em screamin for ages