11. All Beings that Feel Pain Deserve Human Rights, by Richard Ryder
with the experience of pain in ourselves.
Our concern for the pain and distress of others should be extended to any "painient" - pain-feeling - being regardless of his or her sex, class, race, religion, nationality or species. Indeed, if
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12. Possible and Practicable Veganism - Animal Rights Zone
When they are in pain is not their pain much worse than the pain of a being who is subjectively self aware across time and space? Scientists used to suggest human infants were not self-consciously aware, but merely sentient,
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14. Ethical Guidelines
USA.
Gentle, M.J. (1992). Pain in birds. Animal Welfare, 1: 235-247
Melzack, R. and Wall, P. (1982). The Challenge of Pain. Penguin, Hardmondsworth, UK.
Rachlin, H. (1985). Pain and behavior. Behavioural Brain Sciences, 8: 43-83
Rollin,
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15. Do Lobsters Feel Pain? | HumaneSpot.org
expect that lobsters do feel pain. For those that conclude lobsters may not feel pain, the main issue is that the way that humans process pain is not possible in lobsters. Humans have a central nervous system, which sends messages of pain to the
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17. How to Do Animal Rights - Painism
originated and champions Painism (eg Painism: a modern morality . 2001). Ryder also coined the related term Painient , meaning able to feel Pain. A mouse, a dog and a human are Painient but glass beads and marbles are not. Something Painient
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19. Fish do feel pain: Yes they do, science tells us | Psychology Today
new book titled Do fish feel pain? by the renowned scientist, Victoria Braithwaite, is a very important read for those interested in the general topic of pain in animals, especially because it has been long assumed that fish are not sentient
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