Is the pain of animals scientifically proven?

I have some disagreements on this topic because of veganism.

Here are a few publications:

https://www.tieraerzteverlag.at/vetjournal/schreidiagnose-in-der-veterinaermedizin/

https://www.nationalgeographic.de/forschung/2019/12/fuehlen-tiere-schrei-so-wie-wir

https://www.spektrum.de/video/tierische-schrei/1565714

Here it is admitted that we do not know whether animals are in pain or not.

It is only assumed that animals could be in pain.

Are there scientific publications that prove whether animals feel pain or not?

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Darwinist
1 year ago

Are there scientific publications that prove that the animals are in pain or not?

You realize that man is also just an animal that doesn’t even differ from his relatives? In other mammals, the question does not need to be asked and must be answered with a clear “yes”. The nervous system of mammals has the same structure as our brain shows, apart from some proportion differences, also the same structure. Mammals, birds and all other vertebrates can definitely feel pain.

There is already a clearer situation in the case of invertebrates such as insects. Their nervous system has a different structure than ours. Because pain does not arise where we feel it, but subjectively in the brain and the invertebrates lack a brain that resembles our or other vertebrates. It is clear that insects perceive harmful stimuli (such as heat) for them and show a corresponding avoidance behavior. Whether they feel pain, however, is not clear – unfortunately we cannot ask a bee: “Does hurt?” However, in recent times, too, there have been more evidence that insects are also capable of feeling pain. Recently, Study publishes that insects, similar to mammals, have descending control mechanisms for the processing of noxic stimuli. This speaks very much for insects to feel pain in any way. Whether they feel the same way we feel is not clear.

Darwinist
1 year ago

A nervous system is not the reason for pain.

Yes, even understandable. Or what do you mean, where does this mutation work? Bingo! In the nervous system, of course. If you’d read the article carefully, you know it’s about the FAAH gene. This codes for a protein that the cleavage of neuromodulators serves, i.e. substances that act directly on the nervous system.

Animals, especially mammals, can feel pain. This is scientifically inconceivable. Point.

Darwinist
1 year ago

That also means that you will describe the scientists, sources I have named, of science sheets, as transients.

That means that I call the way in which you interpret knowledgeable facts completely incorrectly as transient.

Most of the articles you quote do not deal with pain perception at all. None of those who do it can clearly prove that animals do not feel any pain.

Darwinist
1 year ago

Again; this is a tiny small part of the scientific publications, on my part:

They won’t be more correct if you post them a second time. I’ve searched for a number of current studies that clearly prove that animals can feel pain. During my studies, I took through the subject of nociception and pain perception, and I will not discuss scientifically long-term facts with a transverse ulcer like you.

Darwinist
1 year ago

Here is a small selection from the current literature:

Sheddon (2017): Comparative Physiology of Nociception and Pain:

“All animals possess nociceptors, and, in some animal groups, it has been demonstrated that there are consistent physiological mechanisms underpinning the nociceptive system.”

Sheddon (2019): Evolution of nociception and pain: evidence from fish models:

“The empirical evidence for nociception in fishes from the underlying molecular biology, neurobiology and anatomy of nociceptors through to whole animal behavioural responses is reviewed to demonstrate the evolutionary conservation of nociception and pain from invertebrates to vertebrates. Studies in fish have shown that the biology of the nociceptive system is strikingly similar to that found in mammals. Further, potentially painful events result in behavioural and physiological changes seeking as reduced activity, guarding behaviour, suspension of normal behaviour, increased ventilation rate and abnormal behaviours which are all preventing by the use of pain-relieving drugs. Fish so perform competing tasks less well when treated with a putative painful stimulus. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that it is highly likely that fish experience pain and that painrelated behavioural changes are conserved across vertebrates.”

Tracey (2017): Nociception:

“Nociception has been described in various animal taxa and is likely to be an ancient sensory system that may have existed in a metazoan ancestor that pre-dated the divergence of protostomes and deuterostomes. (…) The cell bodies of the mammalian nociceptor neurons are found in the peripheral nervous system in dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia. Axons from the nociceptive neurons output to neural circuits in the dorsal of the spinal cord, which in turn transmit the inputs to the brain through ascending neuronal pathways. It is in the brain where pain occurs perception downstream of the nociceptive input.”

Broom (2001): The Evolution of Pain:

“Pain is an aversive sensation and feeling associated with actual or potential tissue damage. A pain system involving receptors, neural pathways and analytical centres in the brain exists in many kinds of animals. Feelings of pain in many species are indicated by physiological responses, direct behavioural responses and ability to learn from such experiences that they are minimised or avoided in future.”

And this is really just a small selection of papers!

Kelec
1 year ago

I would say that the question generally goes very much beyond what one can call pain sensations or not.

The real ignorance arises naturally only in the brain, so the question is related to the structure of the nervous system and the brain. At least the nervous system in vertebrates is very similar to what one can assume that they can feel a kind of pain, whether this pain is now comparable to that of a human being, of course, cannot really be proven.

But what one can safely say is that animals have a reaction to pain similar to man, e.g. taking a conservation etc.

Buckykater
1 year ago

In vertebrates, in any case. Zb at bears. There are hardly any dance bears, but they will have a ring pierced through their noses, which will constantly hurt them. To reduce these, they follow every movement of the bear guide. Elephants are also broken with pain and fear of will, and humans are also animals.

In a doku, a hip had somehow caught up in a wire sling at the front leg. It bleeded strong and because of the pain it did not appear with the leg

It also affects birds, reptiles or fish.

Even insect something like that. Rated them zb into an ant nest and are attacked they wind very extreme to escape

MenschenfeindX
1 year ago

There is no need for scientific studies. It’s enough a spark of empathy.

LG

MenschenfeindX
1 year ago

Come on, forget it.

hoermirzu
1 year ago

After we have understood the nervous systems of various living beings to some extent, we also know what beings feel like much pain.

In mammals we can quite safely arrange this, insects work a little different than we do.

hoermirzu
1 year ago

Sorry, I couldn’t follow your misfortune text.

segler1968
1 year ago

We ourselves are only animals as a dry nose ape. In this respect, it is an incredible arrogance to deny the pain to other animals. Pain is not a sign of an especially well-developed intelligence, but rather in the spinal cord. We have various pain reflexes that are completely unconscious. And we share these with all other higher developed animals.

So yes, of course: All the more developed animals have a feeling of pain. Because it simply belongs to body feeling and is evolutionary a very important protection mechanism.

The question of whether animals feel pain as much as we are rather insane. I won’t feel pain like you.

But what do you think is why netting hurts in contact? Do you think this is an invention of the plant world extra for the homo sapiens? And the thorns of the roses are extra for us?

You can also measure pain sensations objectively as with https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/tail-Flick-Test

segler1968
1 year ago

Yeah, that’s right. Animals feel pain. Even fish.

Since fish cannot speak, we can’t ask them so well. Therefore, the scientists are dependent on other studies such as appropriate hormone measurements, the existence of pain receptors, the effectiveness of painkillers, etc.

Fish feel pain. But of course they don’t think like people. Dogs, on the other hand, are much closer to people. Ask any dog owner if his dog feels pain. Or a farmer over his cows and pigs.

segler1968
1 year ago

What do you want to know exactly? Your original question is if animals feel pain. And yes, that’s so clear. Also according to your self-linked sources. The fact that the pain is not felt as well as in our people is a triviality. The complexity of the measurements as animals cannot speak. And of course, veterinarians have to supply the hundreds of species with a poorer data base for dosage than domestic doctors who only have to do with homo sapiens.

SirSulas74
1 year ago

At least “higher” animals feel pain. A pig cries, for example, when it gets a knife in the throat and all animals gently hurt body parts. I’m sure they wouldn’t if they had no pain.

segler1968
1 year ago

Most people scream when you threaten them with a knife. The pain is not the reason. Of course, animals not only feel pain, but also fear – if they are more developed and have a consciousness like dogs.

SirSulas74
1 year ago

I’ve never dealt with it scientifically. I just know you’re not sure if fish feel pain, but at the rest, you can conclude from experience. Animals don’t show it like that.

segler1968
1 year ago

In https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmerzempfind_von_Tieren 55 sources are linked. Almost all literature. Find one. Or take a search engine like elicit.org and enter “pain” and an animal species of your choice.

SirSulas74
1 year ago

No, unfortunately not…

MissGeschick93
1 year ago

Animals can also suffer from depression.

l3487171
1 year ago

“The soul life of the animals” by Peter Wohlleben. It is popular but well-founded.

Takasha
1 year ago

A dolphin made suicide because he was no longer allowed to go to his girlfriend.

MissGeschick93
1 year ago

No, I should google like you, but I think it should be quick to find something. However, I’ve seen videos earlier that I’d rather never have seen. Why should animals not be in pain? So much different than we are, in most cases, not. Only in animal docuses you can see regularly injured waving animals. And I’ve had a traumatized dog.

l3487171
1 year ago

Did you find out? Judging by the titles, in none of the articles the thesis is established that animals do not feel pain. The fact that animals experience pain differently is an interesting aspect (the greater perception of pain is also possible).

l3487171
1 year ago

It is a long refuted hypothesis that animals do not feel any pain. And it was never more than a hypothesis. I honestly have no idea why you can accept it.

MissGeschick93
1 year ago

Well, I think it is possible to assume at least that if you see animals weeping and humbling in their way in injuries. She may have been less “softened” than we do and have a greater chance of survival, I would think of it now.

MissGeschick93
1 year ago

This is what Google is the first to spit out and that’s exactly what I’ve already thought of.

Mammals all have the same nervous system with the same neurochemicals, sensations and emotions. All this is part of the pain sensation, says Marc Bekoff, an evolution biologist and author.04.12.2019

https://www.nationalgeographic.de› …

Do animals feel pain like us? – National Geographic

l3487171
1 year ago

Yeah, he wrote these books too. They are also worth reading.

MissGeschick93
1 year ago

Isn’t that the one who tells so much about the trees?

adianthum
1 year ago

I find the question absurd on my own.

People are mammals and we feel pain.

Pain is a protective mechanism of the body to protect it from damage.

Then you could ask just as well: is the pain of my human being scientifically proven?

adianthum
1 year ago

And why is the question absurd and not explosive?

Because she implies that animals have no feelings of pain and you need scientific evidence that they have it. That’s absurd.

Pain sensation “as we” alone is already misleading, because “we” also feel pain differently. Some even feel lust when you add pain to them….

And define pain.

And for veganism: I doubt that, for example, peas proteins can be produced without the death of countless insects. Or to kill/destroy monocultures without countless small creatures.

I don’t know how many sausages I’ve already fed when I cut raspberries right off the shrub.

Animal kits are also an invention of the “Homo industrialis” as well as human kits…

And no, I don’t have any specialist literature because it doesn’t require scientific evidence for me that other activated matter can also feel pain.

adianthum
1 year ago

I’m not an anti-Semit!

This is just as absurd as animals would not feel pain.

Learn to read correctly, you Knallfrosch 🤦 ♀️

marie07834
1 year ago

Yes, it’s scientifically proven. You can also read a lot about it on the internet or see a docu.

LG

marie07834
1 year ago

No.

Bernd783
1 year ago

For heaven’s sake, there is something like that? Of course, animals have pain and body not only physical! My dog 🐕 is very connected to me! He doesn’t eat when I’m not here! He suffers if he is not observed by me!

He’s really got mental pain without a joke! I’m absolutely sure!

xDavina
1 year ago

Take in contributions about Orcas .. you can see that they not only feel pain, but how much empathy and social behavior some animal species can have, which are not so dissimilar to man

xDavina
1 year ago

The behavior of nem ant stem and ner Orca School is already different.. They have proven to have their own dialects depending on the region, which can communicate in detail, which have a very high intelligence, so also previewing planned thinking, which has only been entrusted to people for a long time. Depending on the group, they have their own hunting strategies that they pass on to other generations..

I don’t know anything about insects, so I can’t say anything big about it. Vlt feels like ant, we just don’t know..

Finally, I don’t know with certainty whether you feel the same pain as me.. You can measure your brain reaction that seems to react similar to my when something hurts.. This can also be done in animals and their receptors also react. So one can assume that they feel pain similar to us.. Insects? no plan. But did you miss a dog on the paw?? Then you’ll see that he’ll find it fucking

minimax11
1 year ago

👍🤣🤣👍

gromio
1 year ago

The greatest pain is probably the questioner here….LG, xDavina.

xDavina
1 year ago

Nerves play a very ne role when it comes to pain .. the mammals have pain receptors just as we have proven if it comes to you.

“In these publications it is clearly shown that, despite a fully functioning nervous system, people cannot have any pain.”

If someone does not feel any pain, the one will not show any reaction suggesting it. Animals do this quite clearly ..

But as I said, we’re going to turn around now. You have a different conviction and I think you’re looking for straws that indicate that they don’t have any pain. Don’t think we’ll agree.

xDavina
1 year ago

https://www.nationalgeographic.de/science/2019/12/fuehlen-tiere-ache-so-wie-wir
Scientists have also developed scales for mice, rabbits, rats and horses to determine whether they feel pain based on the mimic of the animals. Originally such scales were used in hospitals for the treatment of very young children”

So for a long time it was just a misconception. Yes, when they begin to speak, they can tell clearly. An aua and cry for me is also just a reaction like a nem animal.

And the mammals have a nervous system and sensory receptors is also proven. The human being is a mammal btw ^^ And, as I said, on the basis of reaction and learning behaviour in pain as well as in human beings, it is clear to me.

xDavina
1 year ago

If other mammals feel pain as much as we are, he is unknown… ” there it is unknown whether other mammals pain and feel like us, not that they have not feelings.

I mean logical.. I forgot a word