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If crustaceans feel pain, there are ethical and animal welfare implications including the consequences of exposure to pollutants, and practices involving commercial and recreational fishing, aquaculture, food preparation and for crustaceans used in scientific research.
Evidence of the capacity for invertebrates to experience nociception and pain has been widely studied in crustaceans. [28] In the crab Neohelice granulata, [Note 1] electric shocks delivered via small holes in the carapace elicited a defensive threat display. Injection of morphine reduced the crabs' sensitivity to the shock in a dose-dependent ...
Simon Knutsson and Christian Munthe argue that from the perspective of virtue ethics, that when it comes to animals of uncertain sentience, such as "fish, invertebrates such as crustaceans, snails and insects", that it is a "requirement of a morally decent (or virtuous) person that she at least pays attention to and is cautious regarding the ...
Scientists called for humane ways to handle crabs, lobsters, and other shellfish in the kitchen after showing for the first time that crustaceans indeed feel pain.. Boiling lobsters and crabs ...
Whether crustaceans are capable of feeling pain is a topic of ongoing scientific discussion and debate. It has been argued that because crabs can autotomize their claws, manual declawing along natural fracture planes might not cause pain.
Whether crustaceans as a whole experience pain or not is a scientific debate that has ethical implications for crab dish preparation. Crabs are very often boiled alive as part of the cooking process. This section is an excerpt from Pain in crustaceans § Opinions .
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Pain is a complex mental state, with a distinct perceptual quality (nociception), but also associated with suffering, which is an emotional state. The existence of pain in crustaceans is contentious and a matter of scientific debate. DrChrissy 17:17, 14 March 2016 (UTC)