Fish cannot feel pain say scientists
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Racism in the fish world can be cruel. Many people dont realize it but there is segregation amongst fish. They usually seperate the "albinos" from the "normal" colored fish. Oh and dont even get me started with the that have diseases. People just throw them in another tank to start "treatment" to "cure" those poor fish.
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University of Guelph scientists have found that they do feel pain. I'm not sure of the paper for it, I no longer have access to the library but I remember my animal behaviour and welfare professors talking about it.[/QU +1There are so many different studies saying they do.
University of Guelph scientists have found that they do feel pain. I'm not sure of the paper for it, I no longer have access to the library but I remember my animal behaviour and welfare professors talking about it.[/QU +1
Tons. Also, tons that say they don't. I think they feel pain, but just regard it differently than mammals. Since many are opportunistic feeders, they're going to try to eat, even if they've been recently hooked. I also think that the people conducting the studies are innately biased because they can more easily empathize with a mammal's pain.
I could see your point on this, given how most people will cringe or somehow be affected when a dog yelps or they hear an animal suffering. However, I'd rather go with they do feel pain and process/regard it similar to how mammals do, and treat them as such; rather than say that they don't, and people use that as an excuse to treat them as what I would view, very cruelly with no regards to their well being/if they are in pain. Rather be safer than sorry in my book.
The thing is, it shouldn't be dogma whether or not fish feel pain. Most aspects of science in general, if properly done, shouldn't be entirely dogmatic. But as far as I know and as far as many scientists know, there's pretty good evidence for the fact that fish feel pain and respond to it. Being animals and being vertebrates and having a few other significant mutual traits with humans, it's likely that the ability to feel pain is one of those mutual traits. There's many other ways to support the argument for their sentience but that's just one . . .
Completely agree. Plus just because a different organism shows pain differently, maybe by flopping around and gasping, instead of screaming/crying like an animal, doesn't mean they can't feel pain. Just means they show/handle it differently.
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Mine has long since done so. Find an article on MSN or Yahoo. Read the comments. Proof that Idiocracy is coming, and that's a sad thing.
