Whole cooked lobsters in pot of water - Ozgur Coskun/Getty Images It's time to make like David Foster Wallace and consider the lobster. They were once so common in the waters of New England that local ...

If you’ve ever heard a lobster’s scream as it’s cooked alive in boiling water or recognize the sound of claws hammering at the plate glass and steel of an oven door then you may have worked in a ...

Anyone who has ever been in the same room as a lobster boiling knows the distinctive sound of its scream as it’s cooked alive. The sound is not actually a scream — lobsters do not have vocal cords — ...