The issue with the topic about ‘pain in animals’ arises because the non-human animals cannot report their problems in terms of language, so the seriousness and the suffering cannot be equated with human (or individual’s) pain without any scientific method to give correlation between both kinds of pain. We cannot deny that animals do express/emote when they are in pain or danger in some way or the other, but that’s the only way we can figure out if an animal is experiencing pain. Vertebrates such as dogs, cats, alligators etc nurse their wounds, make sounds when they experience distress and tend to avoid situations which can be pain-inducing. There is also a good case that invertebrates also feel some amount of pain. We cannot measure the amount of pain that an animal goes through but we do know that there is at least some harm caused to an animal when they are being utilized as commodities and not as living beings by humans. Evolutionary biologist Robyn J. Crook has argued
The issue with the topic about ‘pain in animals’ arises because the non-human animals cannot report their problems in terms of language, so the seriousness and the suffering cannot be equated with human (or individual’s) pain without any scientific method to give correlation between both kinds of pain. We cannot deny that animals do express/emote when they are in pain or danger in some way or the other, but that’s the only way we can figure out if an animal is experiencing pain. Vertebrates such as dogs, cats, alligators etc nurse their wounds, make sounds when they experience distress and tend to avoid situations which can be pain-inducing. There is also a good case that invertebrates also feel some amount of pain. We cannot measure the amount of pain that an animal goes through but we do know that there is at least some harm caused to an animal when they are being utilized as commodities and not as living beings by humans. Evolutionary biologist Robyn J. Crook has argued