Original post by ukanomaking in rpicsnbspThis crosspost was performed automatically as a part of the ImagesOfNetwork . Learn more about the ImagesOfNetwork , how you can help , and other Frequently Asked Questions , or visit us on Discord ! Remove my post ! The bot got this one wrong ! Stop Crossposting My Stuff ! # match Arizona <| sep |> 200 years ago humans didn ' t have the capability to understand the central nervous system of a cow either . Just because we don ' t understand the method by which we are killing something doesn ' t mean that we aren ' t . The simple fact of the matter is that we have no proof that animals experience emotional suffering outside our anthropomorphization of their experiences . This isn ' t to say that it ' s not possible that they don ' t . But if we ' re going to live our lives doing nothing because of the possibility it might harm something we should probably not exist in the first place . The second component is the experience of pain itself , or suffering the internal , emotional interpretation of the nociceptive experience . Again in humans , this is when the withdrawn finger begins to hurt , moments after the withdrawal . Pain is therefore a private , emotional experience . Pain cannot be directly measured in other animals , including other humans responses to putatively painful stimuli can be measured , but not the experience itself .