Show insists lower animals know little about pain according to an article by dr harold jackson 0 of the zoological department 0 of london university a lobster Is not hurt by throwing it into boiling water any more than a telephone instrument ment Is pained by being banged on the floor ile he claims that pain Is an entirely relative terra term and except tor for ourselves our near relatives and possibly the most artificial domestic animals it does not exist in the m meaning ean we give the word pain in most lower animals acts as a sort of burglar alarm which has no feeling of itself but gives notice that something de definite 8 Is wrong and can probably be set right by certain a standardized a actions 0 a s if animals really had the sensitive feelings that are sometimes attributed to them what a horrible agony life in natural conditions would be for them what nonsense it Is to talk about the agony of a lobster being plunged alle into bolling boiling water while canned lobsters are largely used today there Is still a demand for the fresh lobsters which waith are shipped alive and are conveniently killed by putting jn in boiling water a process which celanges cl ange the green shells to au an attractive attract ivo red |