Actually, animals do feel pain as acutely as we do. They react differently because an animal in the wild that lays around feeling bad gets eaten. That’s one big problem dealing with prey animals like horses and cattle. Unless you are really experienced by the time you notice that they are sick, it can be too late.
“Actually, animals do feel pain as acutely as we do.”
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yeah, yeah and Black Beauty really ran that range of emotions and animals are just like us and communicate and transmit knowledge and history and emotion and faith just like us.
This anthropomorphization of the world is the left’s way of whittling away our status in the world and controlling everything in the name of a supposed equality. Gays are just like us, trees are just like us, Muslims are just like us, criminals are just like us, Travon Martin is just like us (Could have would have been my son), Lassie is just like us, all animalas and all things are just like us, in fact they are better because they have a nobility so much higher than ours, if children’s, and now adult literature and film is to be believed.
Animals feel pain, no doubt, and yes, the signs are difficult to decern, but I see them because I have the experience to see them. Animals do not exhibit pain like humans because, as you said, it makes them a target in nature, in fact, it makes them a target within their own species. Animals that exhibit pain did not breed because they were eaten by predators and/or driven from the herd because of the liability they brought to the herd.
And, for the record, just because they do not feel or experience pain like us does not give us license to abuse them. First and foremost it demeans our character to do so and secondly an animal in pain does not perform well and cruel treatment is counterprioductive toward our use of them.
Animals are not people in any way. That is the point of the Stanford study; to give animals human qualities and to demonize those of us who recognize a difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
To equate animal status, or even environmental status with human status is the tool environmentalists, animal rights activists, and the EPA use to remove our dominion over the animal kingdom and place animals in a dominion over us via their human agent, the EPA aka Federal authority.
Be careful with this moral relativism and humanization of anything.