‘What matters, though, is whether that experience entails conscious experience of pleasure and pain. We believe that the evidence is sufficient to show that these animals do experience pleasure and pain.’
The animals are aware enough to dodge predators and have been seen to make decisions that show they avoid pain. But more than 420million cephalopods and crustaceans are fished in the UK every year, according to a CAWF report. Because neither of these creatures are considered sentient, they are often treated in ways which would not be acceptable with any other animal, including being eaten and boiled alive.
Cephalopods expert Dr. Jennifer Mather said: ‘ octopus, which you’ve been chopping to pieces, is feeling pain every time you do it. It’s just as painful as if it were a hog, a fish, or a rabbit, if you chopped a rabbit’s leg off piece by piece. So it’s a barbaric thing to do to the animal.’Not only that, there are laws around killing animals humanely that usually revolve around slaughtering them as quickly and painlessly as possible.
I dont know much about lobsters but Octopus have been proven to be highly intelligent animals. Maybe as smart as dogs of more.
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