Research That Finds Fish Feel Pain Could Lead to Major Changes in Fishing Industry
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Washington Post] by Tim Carman - May 25, 2018
Fish feel pain.
Read that sentence again: Fish feel pain.
The idea that fish suffer runs counter to almost everything Americans have been taught about creatures of the sea. That their brains are not complex enough to experience pain. That their behaviors when stressed — such as wriggling violently on a hook — are just unconscious reactions, disconnected from the suffering of sentient beings. That they’re, more or less, unfeeling little meat sticks that ...
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