Manti Messenger | 1931-06-19 | Page 6 | Insists Lower Animals Know Little About Pain

Insists Lower Animals Know Little About Pain According to an article by Dr Harold Harold Har Bar old Jackson Jaclson of the zoological department department department depart depart- ment of ot London university a lobster 13 Js not hurt by throwing it Into boiling water any more than a telephone instrument In Instrument Instrument In- In strument Is pained by being banged on the floor He lIe claims that pain Is Isan Isan Isan an entirely relative term and except for tor ourselves our near relatives and possibly the most artificial domestic animals It does not exist In the meaning meaning mean menn ing we give gf the word vord Pain In most lower animals acts as a sort of burglar alarm which has no feeling of Itself but gives notice that something definite I nite alte Is wrong and can probably be set let right b by certain standardized actions I If It animals really had the sensitive feelings that are sometimes attributed to them what a horrible agony life In natural conditions would be for them What nonsense It is to talk about the agony of ot a lobster being plunged alive into boiling water While canned lobsters lobsters lob lob- stem are largely used toda today there Is 19 still a demand for the fresh lobsters which are shipped alive and are arc conveniently conveniently con con- killed kUle 1 by putting in boiling water a n process which changes the green shells to an attractive red I