How hard is it to decapitate the animal before boiling??
Pretty hard consider how the lobster head is non-existent and it frontal extremities (eyes mouth, ect) are just extensions of it thorax.
How hard is it to decapitate the animal before boiling??
How the hell should I know.
I can't afford lobster.
I saw someone on the TV doing it.
It involved a big pin.
Erm.. chickens are not mammals though
So you can't just sever it beneath where the brain is located??
the only legal way to kill a cray in Australia is to lay it flat on a chopping board with its head towards you, place a knife point down just between its eyes and drive it through the brain and imidiately cut the head in half. It is a criminal offense (animal crulty) to kill by boiling.
no its not. LMAO
and you would know how? Were you an Australian chef in a Seafood restraunt when the changes to the laws were brought in? No you wernt, I was
orleander, the best way for live crabs and fish is to put the into a freezer. its like going to sleep for them.
and how many people are taught where it is? How many might just slice off the face, leaving the brain? Or only cut the brain in half?
orleander, the best way for live crabs and fish is to put the into a freezer. its like going to sleep for them.
I'm not sure they have emotions or verifiable pain centers, which would negate the concept of "pleasure" and "pain".
They are mostly stimulus and response.
Call me evil, but I don't give a shit of bugs feel a little pain or not.
And crabs and lobsters are not bugs.
Erm.. chickens are not mammals though
. . . . which might crawl around just like a chicken does when you chop of its head . . . .
. . . . both these animals have significant motor control functions in the spinal column/lower brains, though more so for the lobster.
This is a common misconception. Birds have a reflex center in their spinal column that can control the wing muscles in an emergency. When a bird is startled, the wings start flying before the brain has a chance to pick a direction, giving a head start in avoiding danger. Domestic chickens can't quite fly, but their wings generate enough lift to drag them along the ground. This gives the illusion of crawling, but it's not the legs that provide the motion.
People who keep their pet parrots indoors, but aren't vigilant about trimming their flight feathers, are routinely heartbroken on the day when the combination of a loud noise and an open window sends their bird out into an unfamiliar milieu. By the time he can get control of his wings he's two blocks from home and has no idea how to get back.
In mammals and birds these ganglion clusters are easily relegated to the name "reflex center," compared to the size of the brain. In the lower animals the comparison is not so overwhelming.
mammals and crustaceans are A LOT different.
uncontrolled movement of it lower exterminates,
True bugs are an order (Hermaptera) of insects. They are identified by mouthparts that have been shaped into a proboscis, which they use to puncture plants and feed by sucking their sap. A few species have adapted to feeding on the blood of animals, including bedbugs and also water striders, the only truly aquatic insects.
The word bug is used loosely in vernacular language to include all insects, and even more loosely to include arachnids (spiders, ticks, scorpions, etc.) and myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, etc.)--i.e., all land-based arthropods (animals with exoskeletons).
The word is used even more loosely for any microorganism that causes illness, due to their resemblance to insects when viewed under a microscope. From the sense of causing damage it has been transferred to software defects, and from the sense of being tiny it has been transferred to covert listening devices.
The one thing it has not been generalized to is crustaceans--the class of aquatic arthropods--although the Aussies apply it to a few local species of lobster. Birds and mammals are qualitatively different from the three other classes of vertebrates (reptiles, amphibians and fish) by being endothermic or "warm-blooded". This unique metabolism gives us the ability to generate much more energy than the exothermic or "cold-blooded" animals. In addition to having more powerful musculature (a dolphin can make gumbo out of an equivalent-sized alligator), this also gives us larger brains. NOTE TO PHYSICISTS AND CHEMISTS: Biologists use the terms "endothermic" and "exothermic" exactly opposite to your custom.
Humans tend to intuitively classify birds with mammals: fuzzy warm-blooded animals that nurture their young. But in fact we're both more closely related to the reptiles than to each other.
How big are we talking?Tangentially, a couple of months ago, the Spud Empress was half asleep and complained of having something meaty crawl across her belly. Naturally I resisted any lewd remarks and presumed she was dreaming.
It happened again and being an empathetic sort of chap, I brushed it off again ( metaphorically, that is).
Later I felt something moving on myself and slapped it away, we have some pretty big spiders about and that would not be completely unusual.
Later still I felt something very crawly under my back.
I woke the Spud Empress and asked her to turn on the lamp and look at what was under my back when I sat up. Sure enough a massive centipede was to be found and I caught the fucker in a glass then took it to the kitchen and boiled the kettle, poured a jar of steaming water and introduced the centipede to it's demise. It did turn a lovely shade of pink and I have to admit for several moments I seriously considered eating it. It looked just like a tasty morsel from the ocean and the retribution would have been sweet.