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Immediate ban on boiling crabs and lobsters alive is called for after disturbing study (www.earth.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/vegan@slrpnk.net

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Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We're just gonna keep making more unexpectedly disturbing discoveries that would have also been the intuitive guess of any empathetic two year old.

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. Lots and lots of people, especially when I was younger, would go on about how "animals" (non-humans) can't experience pain or emotion. 30 years of evidence to the contrary later, fuck 'em.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

It wasn't until the (late) 1980's that there was universal acceptance that baby human's felt pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies

Its not better that this was the case, but it's a little more even-handedly stupid.