Posted on 11/22/2021 11:35:14 PM PST by blueplum
Octopuses, crabs, and lobsters will be recognized as sentient beings under UK animal welfare laws after a review concluded there is strong evidence they are capable of feelings.
The UK government announced Friday that decapods, an order of crustaceans, and cephalopods, a class of mollusks, will now fall under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. Decapods include animals like crabs, lobsters, shrimp, prawns, and crayfish, and cephalopods include octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish.
The announcement said the bill "already recognizes all animals with a backbone (vertebrates) as sentient beings. However...decapod crustaceans and cephalopods have complex central nervous systems, one of the key hallmarks of sentience."...
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"Feelings, whoa whoa whoa, feelings...Whoa whoa whoa, feel you again in my arms..."
Don’t plants feel pain?
But not pre-born babies?
Has a crab ever designed a bridge? Has an octopus ever built a city or composed a symphony?
not sure if they’ve designed a bridge, but they did learn how to climb a bridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6og2sLtceg
“Don’t plants feel pain?”
And fish?
What about octopi though?
YOU HURT OUR FEELINGS, WE’RE SPECIAL, WE HAVE EIGHT WAYS OF PUNCHING YOU OUT.
This is BS ever see one say “CNN Sucks” and change the channel on a remote? Octopus is to chewy, the crab salad no, just boil me a lobster bring melted butter some salt and a six pack.
How many genders are they?
Droll, very droll. 😉
Nor anyone who accidentally wanders into a no-go zone wearing a yarmulke, or a woman who ventures onto the wrong subway car showing too much cleavage or knees. But lobsters? Hell, yeah! They’re buck nekkid except for their shell, but nobody better mess with them.
Fish are vertebrates, and thus already enjoy recognition as "sentient beings" under these guidelines.
Regards,
I’m pretty sure that a field of wheat has feelings, too.
Flour, eggs, beer, and crappie filets, batter dipped fried with tossed green salad, tomatoes, and a tall frosted mug. I feel their pain.
This is the Bee, right? No serious person could believe this?
When will they recognize preborm babies this way so they can be protected from being ripped apart?
Do babies feel pain?
There should be laws requiring anesthesia for abortions.
Babies should be treated better than ocean insects.
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