tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post8724971002935649949..comments2023-11-22T04:27:07.521-06:00Comments on glen brown: You're such stupid gits!gbrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1797875972831999598.post-9906941727485868792019-05-20T07:40:41.362-05:002019-05-20T07:40:41.362-05:00"Industry wants to claim that animals don'..."Industry wants to claim that animals don't feel pain so they can use efficient but cruel methods of slaughtering and butchering and doing God knows what else to them. This denial also opens the door to cruel, sometimes fiendishly cruel, experiments on animals. This perspective was the norm until the '70s when Peter Singer published Animal Liberation and over time philosophers and people generally came to accept that animals feel pain and should be treated kindly. Now industry can hire a semanticist or a brain scientist who will testify that animals know nothing of pain as we experience and discuss it, and deny the general fact that they feel pain. Anyone who works with animals, domesticated mammals and birds in particular have no doubt that they feel pain and suffer even though they cannot say it. The behavioral evidence that animals feel pain is compelling. Moreover, neural science has proven that the human nervous system had deep evolutionary roots and is not significantly different than the other higher mammals. These people who deny that animals feel pain are monsters. (Read the book Animals Like Us, a collection of studies showing that animal nervous system and basic sensibilities are not so different from those of Homo sapiens). Sorry for being wordy. Reading that the numbskull Tories who have sold the UK down the river with Brexit are voting that animals don't feel pain makes my blood boil"-Professor Kirill Thompson.gbrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435049339082622611noreply@blogger.com