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Originally Posted by pgardn
What about farm raised catfish?
People have got to establish what pain and suffering is
and in which species it matters.
Animals vary widely in
the type of nervous systems they have and clearly do not
feel pain the same way as mammals do. We try to make
this an easy issue but it is not.
Your chicken example of course led to the fish example.
Which could then lead to farm raised bivalves (mussels)
and on down the line. In all of these cases the animals
must be healthy in some way to yield the most meat
and to attempt to prevent disease.
Overcrowding... pain and suffering, its not that easy.
Better just stick with the mammals and watch it with
the birds, fish, amphibians (frogs), bivlaves ,echinoderms (sea cucumbers).
If you do go with the birds, I am going to have to insist
you also look closely into fish and mollusk torture.
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surely catfish aren't in pain while swimming in these ponds i drive by? they get fed, swim around...and then they get flash frozen. but at least no one is starving them, not giving needed medical attention, and letting them get infested with parasites...