Phil wrote:

> Peter Aitken wrote:
>
>> "Phil" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> Is no one even going to mention cruelty?
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>> Sure, let me.
>>
>> Since no one has ever shown a shred of reliable evidence that
>> crustaceans feel pain or suffer in any meaningful way, you should
>> not be concerned with issues of cruelty when cooking or eating
>> them.
>
>
> As a lobster is a highly evolved sentient marine creature

"Highly evolved?" Little too vague a criterion to take seriously. Not
biologically defensible without specific definitions.

> capable of walking in all those legs, catching prey, evading
> predators and making lobstery love, the idea that it cannot feel
> pain is as stupid as it is wicked.

Ants do all that stuff, too. And they even manage to work as teams.
Not evidence for being "highly evolved." Look at centipedes.

Anthropomorphizing is a logical flaw.

If you have evidence, not merely conjecture, pop it out. Or back it
out. I once heard a hollywood type inveighing against eating animals
by saying the cow behind her had a "noble brow." I said I wouldn't eat
that part. She said some bad words.

Pastorio