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haxor ( haxor@derp.foo ) MB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years ago

New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings

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New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings

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haxor ( haxor@derp.foo ) MB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years ago
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New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, and Crabs as Sentient Beings
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New Zealand officially recognizes lobsters, octopuses, and crabs as sentient beings, leading to changes in commercial fishing.

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  • Lionel ( Lionel@endlesstalk.org ) 
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    Doing this to any animal—regardless of sentience—is straight fucked up. Nothing says selfish like torturing an animal to death so it tastes better. Make it quick.

  • I_Has_A_Hat ( I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website ) Banned
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    Removed by mod

    • xia ( xia@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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      I thought that was needed to avoid toxins or something.

      • THJr ( THJr@ttrpg.network ) 
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        That’s if you kill the lobsters hours before, generally nowadays it’s considered more humane to kill it just before putting it into the pot.

  • 𝔇𝔦𝔬 ( Dio@lemy.lol ) 
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    Okay. So, put them to sleep then boil them. I am not missing out on my water scorpion food.

  • CallumWells ( CallumWells@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I mean, yeah. The bar for sentience is very low. Sapience is a lot higher of a bar.
    People have shown that plants can be sentient after all (they can feel pain at least, IIRC). So it makes sense that almost any multicellular organism above a certain amount of cells would be sentient.

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