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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Hey, thanks for the reminder. Gotta take those halibut steaks outta the freezer.
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.
End fishing now! It is cruel and inhumane.
What's that? Fish are not humans? Nevermind. Pass the worms please...
I’ll side with Jesus; if it was good enough for Him.........
HA! Now, that’s bizarre!
You ain’t heard nothin’ until you’ve heard the terrified screams of dust bunnies as they’re brutally sucked up into a Hoover.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach a man about PETA’s positions and he starves to death.
Goldfish feel pain yet a fetus does not.
Sea Kittens are yummy!
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.
There ya go! : )
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