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Its funny how the lawyer argues that the ban is based on animal cruelty. I would like to see them try to ban chicken and fish. Also what about plants?
Plants too have life and feel stimulus like pain which was demonstrated by one of our own scientists Jagadish Chandra Bose. However unlike animals, there are two key differences. When you kill an animal, it feels pain only for a short while. with plants the they continue to feel pain over a long period of time. For example a vegetable, leaf or fruit that have been plucked from a plant/tree feels pain over a much longer period than any animal. Apparently, George Bernard Shaw who visited J.C. Bose's lab, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had "convulsions" as it boiled to death. The second difference is that plants cannot always express pain in a human perceivable form. So, its the equivalent of trying up an animals mouth so that it cannot scream and then torturing it over a period of time and then declaring that it did not feel pain because it did not scream.
Its funny how the lawyer argues that the ban is based on animal cruelty. I would like to see them try to ban chicken and fish. Also what about plants?
Plants too have life and feel stimulus like pain which was demonstrated by one of our own scientists Jagadish Chandra Bose. However unlike animals, there are two key differences. When you kill an animal, it feels pain only for a short while. with plants the they continue to feel pain over a long period of time. For example a vegetable, leaf or fruit that have been plucked from a plant/tree feels pain over a much longer period than any animal. Apparently, George Bernard Shaw who visited J.C. Bose's lab, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had "convulsions" as it boiled to death. The second difference is that plants cannot always express pain in a human perceivable form. So, its the equivalent of trying up an animals mouth so that it cannot scream and then torturing it over a period of time and then declaring that it did not feel pain because it did not scream.
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