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 alive has ...

Crabs can feel pain when they are boiled alive during conventional food preparation —- as do other shellfish like lobsters, according to a new study. Zoologists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ...

Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

Crawfish, crawdads, and crayfish all look the same, but there's one difference that has more to do with the person preparing ...

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg are the first to prove that painful stimuli are sent to the brain of shore crabs providing more evidence for pain in crustaceans. EEG style measurements ...

Chefs and adventurous home cooks are to be banned from killing lobsters and crabs by boiling them alive as is traditional under a Labour animal welfare crackdown. A new strategy issued today says that ...

Boiling lobsters and crabs alive will be banned after a Labour animal welfare crackdown on the traditional way of preparing the shellfish. A new strategy led by Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds ...