Fish can't feel pain ?

[Larry Botkin <larbot at jorsm_com>]

Okay, after the last few days of copyright wars (Wright did want a conflict 
to liven up the winter) we need something else to stir the pot. Heres one 
that I am read this morning..

In one of the Chicago Sunday newspapers there is an article quoting a 
report published in the Reviews of Fisheries Sciences that:

  "fish cannot feel pain. The largest study of piscine neurology, comparing 
the nervous systems and responses of fish and mammals, has found that their 
brains are not sufficiently developed to allow them to sense pain or 
fear.....  The study concluded that awareness of pain depends on functions 
of specific region of the cerebral cortex that fish do no possess. "

The study was authored by James Rose a professor of zoology and physiology.

Larry Botkin
AKA 07801
ChiKa


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