Why has it been generally assumed that invertebrates can’t feel pain?
Like why would we not assume they CAN until we have reason to think otherwise? And we have evidence to suggest some can. Like, lobsters that are boiled alive are full of stress hormones versus those given humane euthanasia before cooking. Just for a single example.
Even if you wanna argue their pain is “different” than a vertebrate’s, why does that really matter? Inverts, like any animals, respond to having their body damaged by moving away from the cause. They know, on some level, that their body is being damaged and they need to move away. Even if it’s not on a conscious level, they avoid things that hurt them. That’s kind of an important part of not dying as a wild animal!
Even if their response is less equivalent to “Oh fuck, that hurts” and is more like “Oh my god, I’m so stressed, my bodily integrity is being compromised”, I’ll ask again –
Why does it matter if their pain isn’t the “same” as ours? Why is the concept of pain in invertebrates such an offensive notion to suggest?
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It looks like tumblr now automatically converts png files to jpg – if you have a fairly “clean”/simple digital art style that gets wrecked by jpg artifacts, you’ll want to put transparency somewhere in the image – tumblr will leave pngs with transparency alone (a single pixel border of transparency around the image works and is pretty non-intrusive).
Incidentally twitter has done this for a while, the same method of fixing it works there.
I’ve been doing this on twitter for months now; literally just adding a tiny border of transparent pixels is enough. .jpg does not support transparency, so adding it to the image forces Tumblr to maintain the .png file in order to maintain the transparency.
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