While Still Alive Shocking newspaper reports indicate that fish and lobsters are being served alive at a restaurant called Heat at 1507 N. Sedgwick Ave. in Chicago, Illinois. Other eyewitnesses were horrified to see lobsters' tails ripped off while their still-feeling bodies were placed alongside the severed limb on a plate.
Scientists confirm that fish and crustaceans, like all animals, feel pain.
Anatomically, physiologically, and biologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals. Michael K. Stoskopf, department head at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University, found that fish exhibit the same basic responses to painful stimuli that mammals do. Please also let the restaurant owners know that you will never patronize their establishment until these cruelties are permanently eliminated.