[capt_noonie]

I boil live crabs and lobsters all the time and I have never heard the "scream". I don't really have a problem with boiling them live, bc I so appreciate their meat, and not only that, but I save their shells for stock later as well. Additionally, I am one of the few who eat the brains (the tamale), the roe (if I'm so lucky to get some), the water they are boiled in gets strained into the stock, etc, so I waste nothing. I think it's terrible for people to kill a lobster and just eat his tail and claw meat. What a waste.