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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This Spotless Cheetah was photographed in 2012 and, according to experts, the last one like it was documented in 1921. The images were taken by wildlife photographer and artist Guy Combes at the
Athi Kapiti Conservancy in Kenya. Combes heard rumors of the cat and searched an area of 100,000 acres for days for a chance to photograph it. He managed to get within 50 meters of the animal and watched it for a while before a serval appeared and the cheetah took off after it. Wildlife experts believe that the genetic mutation that this cheetah had would help it thrive in the wild as other species may believe it to be a lion.
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