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Whether our interest in eating animals outweighs their interest in not being eaten (assuming for the moment that is their interest) turns on the vexed question of animal suffering.Vexed,because it is impossible to know what really goes on in the mind of a cow or a pig or even an ape.Strictly speaking,this is true of other humans,too,but since humans are all basically wired the same way,we have excellent reason to assume that other people's experience of pain feels much like our own.Can we say that about animals?Yes and no.
I have yet to find anyone who still subscribes to Descartes's belief that animals cannot feel pain because they lack a soul.The general consensus among scientists and philosophers is that when it comes to pain,the higher animals are wired much like we are for the same evolutionary reasons,so we should take the writhings of the kicked dog at face value.Indeed,the very premise of a great deal of animal testing -- the reason it has value -- is that animals' experience of physical and even some psychological pain closely resembles our own.Otherwise,why would cosmetics testers drip chemicals into the eyes of rabbits to see if they sting?Why would researchers study head trauma by traumatizing chimpanzee heads?Why would psychologists attempt to induce depression and ''learned helplessness'' in dogs by exposing them to ceaseless random patterns of electrical shock?
Whether our interest in eating animals outweighs their interest in not being eaten (assuming for the moment that is their interest) turns on the vexed question of animal suffering.Vexed,because it is impossible to know what really goes on in the mind of a cow or a pig or even an ape.Strictly speaking,this is true of other humans,too,but since humans are all basically wired the same way,we have excellent reason to assume that other people's experience of pain feels much like our own.Can we say that about animals?Yes and no.
I have yet to find anyone who still subscribes to Descartes's belief that animals cannot feel pain because they lack a soul.The general consensus among scientists and philosophers is that when it comes to pain,the higher animals are wired much like we are for the same evolutionary reasons,so we should take the writhings of the kicked dog at face value.Indeed,the very premise of a great deal of animal testing -- the reason it has value -- is that animals' experience of physical and even some psychological pain closely resembles our own.Otherwise,why would cosmetics testers drip chemicals into the eyes of rabbits to see if they sting?Why would researchers study head trauma by traumatizing chimpanzee heads?Why would psychologists attempt to induce depression and ''learned helplessness'' in dogs by exposing them to ceaseless random patterns of electrical shock?
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