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It's the same old "if it's not cute and fluffy and it doesn't have cute, big, sad eyes it doesn't matter if it suffers."
You can see the same thing in zoos. Tigers, bears and primates get nice big, beautiful cages.
Fish get a small tank.
Shrimp get a tank so slim that the shrimp can't even turn, so it's always perfectly visible. (As seen in the Haus des Meeres in Vienna)
It's way worse, if it's not a human or a pet it doesn't matter. We are indifferent to death not affecting humanity.
And to be fair, we don't even care about the death of most humans.
"...It's ok to eat fish 'cause they don't any feelings..."
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I can think of a very cost-effective way to eliminate this pain entirely.
I find this somewhere interesting.
Kind of dovetails with that apparently "open question" in people's minds regarding if animals feel pain.
That has always troubled me... to see articles over the decades with titles like "scientists find out pigs and dogs can be happy".... Like no shitttttt.
I would have liked to know how the pain exactly was measured. Perhaps I'm not wearing my glasses but I didn't see that anywhere in the article.
But it was curious to see that suffering of animals is measurable in a quantifiable way,. Ig?
I have no question as to whether animals feel pain, but I do question whether fish experience pain on any level comparable to mammals. Fish lack the very nerves that carry pain in mammals and completely lack the part of the brain that registers mammalian pain. (Yes, they have nociceptors, I get that.)
Read a great article on the subject where scientists gathered from around the globe, like a Michael Crichton novel, to try and answer the question, as it was relevant to a new law in Germany.
They did not conclude, one way or the other, but one item caught my attention.
Ever kept fish? They will swim around, fight, fuck and eat, even with the most grievous of injuries. Mammals OTOH display every symptom of depression. They don't move around, eat, pursue sex, etc.
suffering of animals is measurable in a quantifiable way
Was hoping to see how they measured that. Amoeba react to negative stimuli, all life does so, or it won't be alive for long.
These estimates are based on a comprehensive review of existing research to assess the intensity and duration of pain and distress experienced by the fish.
And I learned nothing.