@Clusterfrog 402361 wrote:
The question is, where do you draw the line? Vegetables are dead things too. Must it have had a brain? Or any form of central nervous system? What about insects? Some neurophysists think that anything below a lizard isnt really conscious at all so you’d be fine eating prawns etc.
However some philosophers think conscious reactions goes all the way down to the simplest life form reacting in the simplest way. Although a good rule would be the less complex the life form, the safer you are eating it.
They did a study that showed winkles feel pain not just recoil from the sensation, i seen a picture in a pub of a calf in the back of a van at a farmers market, it looked petrified, and take the time to go to a slaughter house and see how you feel about it
