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No, it is not necessary to kill the oysters. In freshwater pearl farming approx 32 pearls can be obtained at a time and then the mollusk is re-nucleated. Saltwater pearls can produce one pearl at a time and during a life span it can give 4-5 pearls. After that most of the time it is left in the water to live at its own.

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Yes, you have to kill the oyster before taking out the pearl it has formed.

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If oyster can feel pain is not scientifically proved, but it does react to irritation.

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Oysters do not die when their pearls are harvested. The pearl is kept there because it gets stuck, until someone picks it up the pearl.

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Oysters must be cooked alive or eaten alive.

Don't worry, though, oysters cannot feel pain.

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