Do fish have feelings too? It's a slippery question for science

Do fish have feelings too? It's a slippery question for science

Source: daily mail

3/8/2010

To many, the notion that we should care about the suffering of fish seems absurd.

For most, fish amount to little more than swimming protein, a healthy food to be plucked from rivers and seas.

But, as a disturbing new book shows, scientists are now confident that fish, once symbolic of dumb, primitive stupidity, do not only feel pain, but have a complex emotional life, too.

Indeed, as the book's author says, there is 'no logical reason why we should not extend to fish the same welfare considerations that we currently extend to birds and mammals'.

Do Fish Feel Pain? was written not by a militant vegan, but by a dispassionate marine biologist - who eats fish.

But Victoria Braithwaite's conclusion is particularly surprising, because we are not used to thinking about fish as sentient at all.

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