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To: WarEagle
“Sentient animals have the capacity to experience pleasure and are motivated to seek it,” said Webster. “You only have to watch how cows and lambs both seek and enjoy pleasure when they lie with their heads raised to the sun on a perfect English summer’s day. Just like humans.”

Just like humans? I think not. Cows and lambs are mammals and as mammals their brains have some of the same components as other mammals. From that, we may assume that with those brain components come similar capacities, as found in other mammals whose brains also have those same components. So they feel pain and pleasure, fear and affection. But to call them sentient? They do have the capacity for certain "feelings" but to say they are "just like humans"? Not likely. Without the sapien brain they are not just like humans.

5 posted on 02/28/2005 10:58:05 AM PST by GBA
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I for one do not argue that animals have feelings. Sometimes it's a soft, tender feeling. Sometimes it's more of a crispy feeling. It all depends on how long I leave them on the grill....


6 posted on 02/28/2005 11:05:42 AM PST by texan75010 (You lost - MoveOn...to France, or Canada, or New Zealand, or Germany...take your pick.)
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