Not according to an article I just read in The Week
It reads:
Lobster lovers can crack open those claws without guilt. Despite all their thrashing around in the cooking pot, it's highly unlikely that lobsters and other crustaceans feel pain, says a Norwegian government study. Scientists at the University of Oslo examined the pain capacities of crustaceans and other invertebrates and found that their primitive nervous systems appeared incapable of registering pain. the death throes of the lobster are probably an instinctive "escape mechanism," nota conscious reaction to pain, researchers tell the Associated Press. Animal activists have long claimed that it's agonizing for lobsters to be dropped into boiling water and cooked to death. Buth the Norwegian study supports previous findings that lobsters lack the brain capacity to process pain. "It's a semantic thing," says biologist Mike Loughlin. "No brain, no pain."
It reads:
Lobster lovers can crack open those claws without guilt. Despite all their thrashing around in the cooking pot, it's highly unlikely that lobsters and other crustaceans feel pain, says a Norwegian government study. Scientists at the University of Oslo examined the pain capacities of crustaceans and other invertebrates and found that their primitive nervous systems appeared incapable of registering pain. the death throes of the lobster are probably an instinctive "escape mechanism," nota conscious reaction to pain, researchers tell the Associated Press. Animal activists have long claimed that it's agonizing for lobsters to be dropped into boiling water and cooked to death. Buth the Norwegian study supports previous findings that lobsters lack the brain capacity to process pain. "It's a semantic thing," says biologist Mike Loughlin. "No brain, no pain."