Its a small trade-off really, the lobster "endures" like 30 seconds of prolongment of "pain" in exchange for a tastier meal. For animals in general I do not think they have a consciousness and are as Descartes says "automatons", for a comparison of how idiotic "animal welfare" can be, there are people who unironically play vegan lifestyles in minecraft. Besides the lobster was going to be killed and eaten anyways, for it is its destiny to be so, so why does it matter to prolong pain? Especially if there are good outcomes that benefit you, the one whos going to dine?
It is clear God gave us animals for perpetual motion (for what is the difference of peoples walking down streets in an urban area next to that of a praying mantis catching a fly? Both suit their goal of doing what they were programmed to do) in keeping earths ecosystem in tact, and for us to learn from the behaviour of animals (See Aesops fables), and create archetypes/analogie, or even be Gods ourselves and create new beings (see the pug/modern banana).We know this as to our knowledge, no other animal can do what is listed above except humans. Humans are the center of the earth, the only beings with a consciousness.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?