I got my Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall River Cottage Fish book out last night which actually I had never read before, many think he is a t0sser but he is a big conservationist and petitions animal rights and welfare.

He states "lobsters are less sophisticated creatures than crabs if you can imagine such a thing, and as such they do not have anything you could really call a brain. So the officially sanctioned way of killing them is less technical than it is for crabs, and involves no anatomical precision. They should simply be placed alive in a freezer for about 2 hours, until they are almost, but not quite, frozen - this will render them completely comatose. They can then be dropped into a pan of rapidly boiling seawater or saltwater."

They're certainly weird things, they actually p1ss from their head which is used to frighten off other males, and to attract females. When a female is ready to breed she moves in with the male and sheds her hard shell, this allows the male to climb aboard and impregnate her. Then when she is ready to leave she grows back the hard shell again, and she can carry the males fluid around inside her for a year until she decides to fertilize herself.

Think you made all that up B-B!

Far too ridiculous to believe, and next you'll be telling us that they can chuck of a claw, and just grow a new one!

'And some fell upon stony ground'. 

catch and release i hope

Right now, a poor innocent lobster is about to get boiled alive and you guys are concerned about a few smiley's!