Lobster Pain

Do lobsters feel pain when plunged into boiling water? I don't know. And frankly, I don't care, but Tony Yaksh does. He's doing research at the University of California at San Diego to answer that exact question.

I suspect that the lobster dies so fast that it doesn't have a chance for any significant nerve response, unlike the trout you pull out of the water and immediately slit from its anus to its head. Even as you scrape the guts out with your Buck knife, that trout opens and closes his mouth in some sort of curdling silent fish scream. You know he's in pain.