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human
ELI5: Why is cooking live lobster or crab not considered animal cruelty?

I've seen this at quite a few restaurants, stores, and on television. Why are cooks allowed to cook them alive without repercussions?
gpt
If boiling a lobster alive was animal cruelty, then poisoning cockroaches would also be animal cruelty.

Why do people care about lobsters, but not other arthropods with practically identical nervous systems? Because lobsters are big, and people who don't know anything about biology think bigger = more complex.