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Insects may feel pain after all, and may be more sentient than we thought

We do a lot of bad things to insects, and we shrug it off by thinking insects don't feel any pain. But that may not be true.

Experiment shows that crabs and lobsters feel pain, suggests we don't really understand animal pain

I have never in my life eaten a crab or a lobster, because ever since I was a kid, boiling an animal alive seemed extremely cruel; it just didn’t make sense that an animal doesn’t feel pain – and even today, it doesn’t, to me. Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is […]