c) The traditional method for cooking a lobster, boiling it alive, raises the question of whether or not lobsters feel pain.
a) This cooking technique (and others, such as storing the live lobster on ice) is used to improve humans’ dining experience.
d) However, if lobsters are capable of feeling pain, these cooking methods raise ethical questions for chefs and lobster eaters alike.
b) Now a device called the CrustaStun has been invented to electrocutes a lobster, rendering it unconscious in less than half a second, after which it can be cut apart or boiled.
