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Fish May Actually Feel Pain And React To It Much Like Humans
sciencedaily ^ | Apr. 30, 2009)

Posted on 04/30/2009 4:34:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono

Fish don't make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same. Joseph Garner, an assistant professor of animal sciences, helped develop a test that found goldfish do feel pain, and their reactions to it are much like that of humans. "There has been an effort by some to argue that a fish's response to a noxious stimuli is merely a reflexive action, but that it didn't really feel pain,"

Garner said. "We wanted to see if fish responded to potentially painful stimuli in a reflexive way or a more clever way." Garner and Janicke Nordgreen, a doctoral student in the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, attached small foil heaters to the goldfish and slowly increased the temperature. The heaters were designed with sensors and safeguards that shut off the heaters to prevent any physical damage to a fish's tissue. Half of the fish were injected with morphine, and the others received saline. The researchers believed that those with the morphine would be able to withstand higher temperatures before reacting if they actually felt the pain. However, both groups of fish showed a response at about the same temperature.

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TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: abortion; fish; partialbirthabortion
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To: JoeProBono
Ahhh. The PETA Vegan Crusade continues. Here's my contribution to the effort.


21 posted on 04/30/2009 5:03:19 PM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: JoeProBono

Hey, thanks for the reminder. Gotta take those halibut steaks outta the freezer.


22 posted on 04/30/2009 5:05:33 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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To: JoeProBono

23 posted on 04/30/2009 5:10:19 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: CaribouCrossing

I have to cancel my appointments with my shrink. I’ve sworn that I’ve heard lobster cry out in pain when I drop them in boiling water. I know I’ve heard some similar noise when I’ve cut grapes off the vine and let’s not even go there when it comes to harvesting potatoes and carrots. I feel so relieved.


24 posted on 04/30/2009 5:13:03 PM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin st)
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To: paulycy

25 posted on 04/30/2009 5:13:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

End fishing now! It is cruel and inhumane.

What's that? Fish are not humans? Nevermind. Pass the worms please...

26 posted on 04/30/2009 5:15:59 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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To: JoeProBono

I’ll side with Jesus; if it was good enough for Him.........


27 posted on 04/30/2009 5:16:55 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (A woman will be the next President; I hope it's Palin instead of HRC.)
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To: JoeProBono

HA! Now, that’s bizarre!


28 posted on 04/30/2009 5:17:07 PM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: shadeaud

You ain’t heard nothin’ until you’ve heard the terrified screams of dust bunnies as they’re brutally sucked up into a Hoover.


29 posted on 04/30/2009 5:19:03 PM PDT by CaribouCrossing
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To: Doogle

30 posted on 04/30/2009 5:19:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: TheBattman

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.

Teach a man about PETA’s positions and he starves to death.


31 posted on 04/30/2009 5:21:12 PM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: JoeProBono

Goldfish feel pain yet a fetus does not.


32 posted on 04/30/2009 5:24:25 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: beefree

33 posted on 04/30/2009 5:27:18 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Sea Kittens are yummy!


34 posted on 04/30/2009 5:35:01 PM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: JoeProBono

Well, good. We throw our catch into the ice chest with ice when we take them out of the live well. We don’t even own any little foil heaters, and we wouldn’t attach them to the fish if we did.


35 posted on 04/30/2009 5:35:48 PM PDT by LucyJo (Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it.)
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36 posted on 04/30/2009 5:36:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: LucyJo

37 posted on 04/30/2009 5:39:18 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
LOL.
38 posted on 04/30/2009 5:42:13 PM PDT by LucyJo (Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it.)
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To: Finalapproach29er

There ya go! : )


39 posted on 04/30/2009 5:45:07 PM PDT by LucyJo (Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it.)
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To: nevergore

40 posted on 04/30/2009 5:45:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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