Do You Feel The Pain...of FISH?
June 14th 2009 18:13
If one has ever had reason to lose their sanity, this would be a good time to do so. In a new I-don't-give-a-crap study, my tax dollars helped fund the fish MAY feel pain as much as humans study!
So if you like to fish you might have a visit from the Petards and the other animal loving, vegetarian freaks. A great article about the whole thing is here.
Whether fish or other animals feel pain or not is irrelevant, because in nature there is always a life and death struggle. You can't blame man on acting on his natural instinct of finding food. What if a higher predator eats the fish, does it feel less pain than if man caught it and ate it? What about the fish's survival from birth when predators are all around it, if eaten does it feel pain?
Keep in mind that the more offspring an animal species produces, the less will survive. We can't unbalance nature, sort of speak. Fish lay hundreds of thousands of eggs because many will be devoured or killed in some way. Remember that when streams and lakes are stocked with local fish by DECs, there is an underlying rule that it is for fishing.
The whole thing about this study is that it will twisted towards man as the ultimate culprit. We are omnivores and fish have always been in our diet.
Yes, an animal feels pain. The prey is well prepared to face death in a blink of an eye. A study that has been forgotten was one that stated that a predatory animal gets a morphine affect when a predator captures it. In today's world prey animals are surviving at a higher rate than the predator can control. If you totally exclude man, that would mean a higher population of an uncontrollable parasite.
It's time for me to end this opinionated diatribe. I actually am a naturalist and love nature, ecology, conservation, etc. But I see too much emphasis put on blame man for natural outcomes!
So if you like to fish you might have a visit from the Petards and the other animal loving, vegetarian freaks. A great article about the whole thing is here.
Whether fish or other animals feel pain or not is irrelevant, because in nature there is always a life and death struggle. You can't blame man on acting on his natural instinct of finding food. What if a higher predator eats the fish, does it feel less pain than if man caught it and ate it? What about the fish's survival from birth when predators are all around it, if eaten does it feel pain?
Keep in mind that the more offspring an animal species produces, the less will survive. We can't unbalance nature, sort of speak. Fish lay hundreds of thousands of eggs because many will be devoured or killed in some way. Remember that when streams and lakes are stocked with local fish by DECs, there is an underlying rule that it is for fishing.
The whole thing about this study is that it will twisted towards man as the ultimate culprit. We are omnivores and fish have always been in our diet.
Yes, an animal feels pain. The prey is well prepared to face death in a blink of an eye. A study that has been forgotten was one that stated that a predatory animal gets a morphine affect when a predator captures it. In today's world prey animals are surviving at a higher rate than the predator can control. If you totally exclude man, that would mean a higher population of an uncontrollable parasite.
It's time for me to end this opinionated diatribe. I actually am a naturalist and love nature, ecology, conservation, etc. But I see too much emphasis put on blame man for natural outcomes!
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