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Octopuses, crabs, and lobsters will be recognized as 'sentient beings' in UK after a review concluded they feel pain and distress
Business Insider ^ | 21 November 2021 | Kelsey Vlamis

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."...

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: crustaceans; mollusks; sentinentbeings; wokeseafood
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do sentinent beings have personal pronouns?
1 posted on 11/22/2021 11:35:14 PM PST by blueplum
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"...after a review concluded there is strong evidence they are capable of feelings."

"Feelings, whoa whoa whoa, feelings...Whoa whoa whoa, feel you again in my arms..."

2 posted on 11/22/2021 11:39:54 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: blueplum

Don’t plants feel pain?


3 posted on 11/22/2021 11:45:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: blueplum

But not pre-born babies?


4 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:23 PM PST by twister881
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To: blueplum

Has a crab ever designed a bridge? Has an octopus ever built a city or composed a symphony?


5 posted on 11/22/2021 11:48:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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6 posted on 11/22/2021 11:51:41 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

not sure if they’ve designed a bridge, but they did learn how to climb a bridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6og2sLtceg


7 posted on 11/22/2021 11:54:54 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: nickcarraway

“Don’t plants feel pain?”

And fish?


8 posted on 11/23/2021 12:02:41 AM PST by Does so (DC: "The Chinese city on top of a hill".)
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What about octopi though?

YOU HURT OUR FEELINGS, WE’RE SPECIAL, WE HAVE EIGHT WAYS OF PUNCHING YOU OUT.


9 posted on 11/23/2021 12:02:59 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: blueplum

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.


10 posted on 11/23/2021 12:07:02 AM PST by Equine1952
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To: blueplum

How many genders are they?


11 posted on 11/23/2021 12:09:11 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Droll, very droll. 😉


12 posted on 11/23/2021 12:11:45 AM PST by Equine1952
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To: twister881

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.


13 posted on 11/23/2021 12:12:24 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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And fish?

Fish are vertebrates, and thus already enjoy recognition as "sentient beings" under these guidelines.

Regards,

14 posted on 11/23/2021 12:14:15 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I’m pretty sure that a field of wheat has feelings, too.


15 posted on 11/23/2021 12:18:47 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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Flour, eggs, beer, and crappie filets, batter dipped fried with tossed green salad, tomatoes, and a tall frosted mug. I feel their pain.


16 posted on 11/23/2021 12:22:33 AM PST by Equine1952
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Sick bastards. Abortion has been legal in England since 1967. By the end of third week the child's backbone spinal column and nervous system are forming.
17 posted on 11/23/2021 12:22:57 AM PST by Robwin ( )
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To: blueplum

This is the Bee, right? No serious person could believe this?


18 posted on 11/23/2021 12:36:22 AM PST by colorado tanker
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When will they recognize preborm babies this way so they can be protected from being ripped apart?


19 posted on 11/23/2021 12:51:45 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Do babies feel pain?

There should be laws requiring anesthesia for abortions.

Babies should be treated better than ocean insects.


20 posted on 11/23/2021 12:54:06 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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