Octopuses and lobsters are also extremely intelligent, feel pain and should be protected by law

Octopuses and lobsters are also extremely intelligent, feel pain and should be protected by law

Octopuses and lobsters also feel pain and should be included in the animal protection bill: the CAWF asks the British government

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A few weeks ago the UK government recognized that dogs, cats, fish and other animals are sentient beings and need more safeguards, which have been included in the groundbreaking Animal Welfare Action Plan. But many species of invertebrates are left out, endowed with great sensitivity. So the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) has asked the UK government to also include octopus and lobsters in the bill. 





In the latest CAWF report, also supported by several parliamentarians including Sir David Amess and Sir Roger Gale, it is highlighted that these animals are discriminated against by legislation because their "neurological architecture is different from ours".

Common arguments against the sensitivity of crustaceans and cephalopods focus on the distinctions between the anatomy of these animals and the human anatomy (such as the fact that they process information outside the brain, for example in the ganglia) "- explains Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation - However, this anthropocentric view fails to capture what it means for an animal to be sentient. Crustaceans and cephalopods undoubtedly experience the world in extremely different ways from ourselves. What matters, however, is whether that experience involves a conscious experience of pleasure and pain. We believe that the evidence is sufficient to show that these animals feel pleasure and pain.

Octopuses and lobsters suffer like other animals: science confirms it

There are several scientific studies that show that species such as octopuses and lobsters are extremely sensitive, curious and intelligent, but they still continue to be boiled alive in many restaurants around the world, as you would any vegetable. But these specimens suffer, and how. Just last year the British Veterinary Association appealed to cooks to put an end to this terrible practice. and a few years earlier scientists Bob Elwood and Barry Magee of the Queen's School of Biological Sciences carried out an experiment, showing that crabs, shrimps and lobsters feel pain like other animals. 

All but a very small minority of scientists agree that they are sentient animals capable of perceiving pain and suffering, ”notes Lorraine Platt, founder of CAWF - It is very important that they are included in the animal sensitivity bill. My Octopus Teacher is a very moving film about a female octopus that shows how intelligent these animals are and how they avoid sharks and other predators every day. Why are they excluded? I'm sure there are concerns from the world of the fishing industry because it sheds light on how these specimens are killed, stored, transported. We are talking about millions of animals. They have protection in Norway, Sweden and Austria, but not here.



And even in our country octopuses, lobsters and other molluscs and crustaceans do not enjoy any protection and are continually subjected to torture and still immersed alive in boiling water. How many more studies do we still have to wait to put an end to these atrocities?


Fonte: Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation

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