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When you put it like that, it almost certainly seems like torture. What's interesting to think about -- if a species/animal isn't capable of comprehending this
by anonytrary 7y ago
When you put it like that, it almost certainly seems like torture. What's interesting to think about -- if a species/animal isn't capable of comprehending this emotional loss, then it is torture? Furthermore, how do we measure/know if an animal can actually feel such a deep emotional loss? Many animals cannot communicate. I am so interested to know what a cow thinks. What any animal thinks. It's easy to know what humans think because their informational bitrate is huge.
IIRC cows can feel postpartum depression, so it makes sense that this would be torture. But if we did this to bacteria (maybe even bees), the moral dilemma seems to disappear.
- lonelappde 7y agoMost mammals communicate pain in recognizable ways. Including cows and calves.
- klyrs 7y agoIt seems that animal nervous systems are more humanlike than previously assumed, and apparently, cows are quite complex emotional animals. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/animal-emotions/201711/cows-science-shows-theyre-bright-and-emotional-individuals https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/animal-emotions/2017... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0800 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2015.080...