Store sells shrink wrapped crabs...alive

[Catherine]

That is a good article. I don't know why we ever thought crustaceans can't feel pain. I suspect it is because we want to treat them badly and we don't want to feel guilty about it.

In theory we treat mice and other animals better, but lab animals are subjected to many painful things. Animals used for fur are treated horrifically.

But we don't package live mammals for food and display them in a store.

Reptiles are often skinned alive and left to die which can take days. Again this is not done in public.

We know it is wrong to cause so much suffering to an animal so we hide it. Crustaceans are considered so low that they didn't think they needed to hide their pain.

I am glad people complained. We need to be constantly on watch for animal abuse. Our complaints do get results.