Yeah, WhyNot linked to the study which appears to show they do feel pain.
Frankly, anyone who accepts evolution shouldn’t be surprised that something as useful as the ability to sense pain and react evolved fairly early in the development of life. It’s not like we’d assume it sprang fully-blown into existence when the first Cro-Magnon reached Europe.
No vaporization without representation?
Most vegetables are trying to stay alive, too. Many plants have quite an arsenal of self-defense.
But pain makes them tastier! Studies have shown the the yummiest, juiciest steaks come from cows that have been slapped around and teased before being slowly strangled with a silk stocking.
I was watching Martha Stewart ages and ages ago and she instructed us to add a cup of vodka to the water because (it’s been so long I forget - something like it relaxes their muscles so they don’t curl up?) Then as an aside she added “Besides, if you were going to be boiled alive you’d want a drink first too.”
Has PETA issued an encyclical on this?
Seriously, you are talking about a large insect that happens to taste delicious (with butter and lemon)-I don’t concern myself much with lobster’s feelings.
Besides, in the wild, they are likely to be eaten by…another lobster!
That sounds a lot like the plot of a porno I watched once.
Just so long as you cut the rubber bands off them so it’s more of a fair fight.
What would Dr. Zoidberg say?
He’d say WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP
(V)( ;,; )(V)
MY MOTHER WAS A SAINT!!
I have a personal policy of not considering the feelings of anything with mouth tendrils.
You have heard of Spam, right?
Oh wait, you said delicious.
Vat meat doesn’t sound very appetizing.
Cthulhu, it’s what’s for dinner.
In R’lyeh, dinner eats you
We’re gonna need a bigger pot
i’m here all week 
Soylent Spam is made of pig people!
It’s got a few bugs to work out still.
Boomtown, outside Reno, has an “All You Can Eat” Lobster buffet.
I mowed down about 8 of those critters one night. Didn’t bother me one bit! Who I felt sorry for was the poor woman they have dressed in the Lobster costume. Jeez, that must be embarrassing!
Boiled alive is nothin’.
Soft-shell crabs have their faces sliced off, then their lungs (gills) ripped out, then they’re cooked, alive.
Although, really, is that so different than the end they’d meet if they were caught by a seagull, or an otter, or an octopus, or any of the other zillions of things that will rip a crab apart to eat it? Well … except for the boiling part, but at that point, do they even really care?