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Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain
tritonman writes "A new scientific study suggests that crabs can feel and remember pain. From the article: '"More research is needed in this area where a potentially very large problem is being ignored," said Elwood.
Legislation to protect crustaceans has been proposed but it is likely to cover only scientific research. Millions of crustacean are caught or reared in aquaculture for the food industry.
There is no protection for these animals (with the possible exception of certain states in Australia) as the presumption is that they cannot experience pain.'
Perhaps soon there will be a study to determine that vegetables feel pain as well, then all of the vegans will only be allowed to eat rocks."
But you'd have to ask a vegetable if it feels pain.
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The Crab People are not going to be happy about their weakness being discovered.
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I don't believe its selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish.
What is this "girl" creature you speak of?
What about the pain I would experience not being allowed to eat sweet, delicious crab?
I guess ill have to be careful when I pick them off my bush...
The lobster might behave as we would, but I can guarantee you that the lobster is much, much tastier. Speaking of which, I think I need to go for some Lobsterfest tonite!
There happen to be two main criteria that most ethicists agree on for determining whether a living creature has the capacity to suffer and so has genuine interests that it may or may not be our moral duty to consider. One is how much of the neurological hardware required for pain-experience the animal comes equipped with--nociceptors, prostaglandins, neuronal opioid receptors, etc. The other criterion is whether the animal demonstrates behavior associated with pain. And it takes a lot of intellectual gymnastics and behaviorist hairsplitting not to see struggling, thrashing, and lid-clattering as just such pain-behavior.
Except there's a third criteria: is the animal tasty enough to disregard the other two criteria.
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Of course vegetables feel pain.
I have heard from those that eat bush meat that it is unlike anything else.
You're doing it wrong
Listen up, brothers and sisters Come hear my desperate tale I speak of our friends of nature Trapped in the dirt like a jail Vegetables live in oppression Served on our tables each night This killing of veggies is madness I say we take up the fight Salads are only for murderers Cole slaw's a fascist regime Don't think that they don't have feelings Just 'cause a radish can't scream {Refrain} I've heard the screams of the vegetables, scream scream scream Watching their skins being peeled, having their insides revealed Grated and steamed with no mercy, burning off calories How do you think that feels, bet it hurts really bad Carrot juice constitutes murder, and that's a real crime Greenhouses prisons for slaves, let my vegetables grow It's time to stop all this gardening, it's dirty as hell Let's call a spade a spade, it's a spade it's a spade it's a spade I saw a man eating celery So I beat him black and blue If he ever touches a sprout again I'll bite him clean in two I'm a political prisoner Trapped in a windowless cage 'Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips By killing five men in a rage I told the judge when he sentenced me "This is my finest hour I'll kill those farmers again Just to save one more cauliflower" How low as people do we dare to stoop Making young broccolis bleed in the soup Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes Set potted plants free, don't mash that potato, ah I've heard the screams of the vegetables scream scream scream Watching their skins being peeled fates in the stir fry are sealed Grated and steamed with no mercy you fat gourmet scum How do you think that feels leave them out in the fields Carrot juice constitutes murder V8's genocide Greenhouses prisons for slaves yes your compost's a grave It's time to stop all this gardening take up macramé Let's call a spade a spade it's a spade it's a spade it's a spade All we are saying is give peas a chance.
If the scientists played any Final Fantasy games, they would know that casting "Lightning" on crabs hurts them, and hurts them much more than fire spells. ...Damn, you can tell when it's late afternoon on Friday when I start making retarded posts like these.
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Except there's a third criteria: is the animal tasty enough to disregard the other two criteria.
Well thank goodness humanity isn't tasty enough to meet that criteria.
And seriously if anyone wants to disagree, don't kid yourself. You are not very delicious.
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Typed like someone who has never tried baby meat. Mmmm....
Very tender, but oh so hard to get.
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Some of my favourite meals are Vegetarians.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
That's funny... I didn't know PETA's camps in the middle of the forest had internet.
Yeah, but that's just because of the defiance.
Mmm... Popplers.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
How many humans have you eaten? How did you cook them?
Perhaps you are using the wrong spices.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
But...but...he heard the lid rattling!
What else could possibly cause the lid on the pot of boiling water with a lobster inside to rattle like that?
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I've been reading Slashdot for many years and I've seen a lot of comments about grits, but that one's new to me.
Democrats too. The only difference is the babies that Republican politicians eat have been born first.
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Obviously the water was in pain as it was thrashing about trying to get away from the heat source. That's not steam, those are the precious souls of billions of water molecules you just tortured and burned alive!!!
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Except there's a third criteria: is the animal tasty enough to disregard the other two criteria.
That reminds me of something my daughter told me while driving past a cow field when she was 4 years old.
"Cows sure are cute daddy... It's too bad they taste so good. Can we have steak when we get home?"
Bigger, and shorter tails. Americans are often fatter.
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Neither crabs nor lobster if you chase them will take into consideration what you might do next. they just scoot "away" even to the point of bouncing off random objects as they flee. It's clear when you see them that they are not "fleeing" so much s just moving their tail quickly.
I understand your point of view, however, here is video proof of a crustacean performing risk/reward analysis and as a result taking assertive action in order to prolong it's life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVJAAhoYrw
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