Why do you have to boil crabs alive?

I think most people feel that by boiling live crabs, they are insured the greatest degree of freshness and quality and the least amount of unwanted bacterial growth. Once a shellfish has died, bacteria starts to grow (the kind that can make you ill) and the quality starts to degrade (eventually, to unacceptable levels). read more

What is sure is that people eventually pay for all the pain that they cause in the world, and if you are boiling crabs alive, you are going to pay for that after your death, if you don’t pay for it before that. You don’t get away with anything in this world. The idea that you might get away with committing acts of cruelty is simply a delusion. read more

because if you kill them days before you cook them they wont be freash crabs and if you try to kill them they may lose their shape. Unfortunately, it's necessary in order to have the meat taste the way we all expect. The best way to keep them from suffering is to put them in the freezer first. read more