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New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings (bnnbreaking.com)
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[–] Lionel@endlesstalk.org 13 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Dio@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago

Okay. So, put them to sleep then boil them. I am not missing out on my water scorpion food.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

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.