Animal Rights

Animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk notes: When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

She is right in the main, though, biologically, it’s a cortex and not a central nervous system that is a requirement to feel pain, which is why, believe it or not, fish do not feel pain.  Like humans, they do avoid noxious stimuli and therefore, we anthropomorphize our own experiences on them.

I’m still happier eating invertebrates like shrimp, scallops and clams. Or better yet, plant-based meat.