The study shows rainbow trout endure an average of 10 minutes of intense pain during air asphyxia, with estimates ranging from 2 to 22 minutes depending on factors like fish size and water temperature. This translates to approximately 24 minutes of pain per kilogram of fish. These estimates are based on a comprehensive review of existing research to assess the intensity and duration of pain and distress experienced by the fish.
Crucially, the study also assesses the cost-effectiveness of interventions. If implemented properly, electrical stunning could avert 60 to 1,200 minutes of moderate to extreme pain for every U.S. dollar of capital cost.
“…It’s ok to eat fish 'cause they don’t any feelings…”
Something in the way…
I find this somewhere interesting.
Kind of dovetails with that apparently “open question” in people’s minds regarding if animals feel pain.
That has always troubled me… to see articles over the decades with titles like “scientists find out pigs and dogs can be happy”… Like no shitttttt.
I would have liked to know how the pain exactly was measured. Perhaps I’m not wearing my glasses but I didn’t see that anywhere in the article.
But it was curious to see that suffering of animals is measurable in a quantifiable way,. Ig?
It’s the same old “if it’s not cute and fluffy and it doesn’t have cute, big, sad eyes it doesn’t matter if it suffers.”
You can see the same thing in zoos. Tigers, bears and primates get nice big, beautiful cages.
Fish get a small tank.
Shrimp get a tank so slim that the shrimp can’t even turn, so it’s always perfectly visible. (As seen in the Haus des Meeres in Vienna)
It’s way worse, if it’s not a human or a pet it doesn’t matter. We are indifferent to death not affecting humanity.
And to be fair, we don’t even care about the death of most humans.
