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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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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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.