[jensen123]

It's seems pretty obvious to me that pigs and cows have feelings and are somewhat intelligent, so I'm reluctant to eat those. But I'm really wondering about dumb animals like chickens, fish and insects. Do they have feelings? Does a chicken or a fish suffer when imprisoned?

[ck2]

I saw a study somewhere that maybe fish do have feelings, they just don't express them in a way we can identify or relate to so we write it off. They do have very tiny brains but still.

After refusing to eat meat since I was a teenager (we're talking decades) I recently "gave in" and started eating tuna because my protein intake was so low it was doing damage. Still feel guilty as hell about it. Beans and milk just don't cut it though and greek yogurt is way way too expensive to eat regularly.

Here's a steer that was let outside after being cooped up for the winter, tell me it's not happy:

https://imgur.com/gallery/r1picTv

cows do that too - I've seen all sorts of scenes with cows that clearly show them expressing emotions, with music, with dogs, etc.

and pigs are VERY smart, smarter than dogs in many cases, makes completely sense to me if they have emotions, would be strange if they did not while dogs do