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."

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Re:Actually, vegetables do scream when picked

[sumdumass]

You need to study up a little on the subject. Alleviating the over burdening regulation and costs associated with socialism isn't corporatism.

The problem lays with the carrot and the stick. One side only believes in the stick and expects to be able to beat industry into their idealist compliance. The other side believes in using the carrot to move the beast closer to compliance and then using the stick only when that fails. The carrot in this instance would be tax incentives and subsidies that you would consider corporate welfare. The more we take action that places a cost on business, the more business moves outside our reach. The so called welfare attempts to displace that costs until it can be built into the pricing structure. In a free society, no business has an obligation to stay in a specific place so to see the benefit from it remaining there, you need to have as little artificial impact through regulation as possible. This isn't being fascist in any reasoning of the word. However, if you only look at the surface and don't understand the principle of the actions, you will even fail to see the electric is out because you didn't pay the bill, not because something else caused it.