Calibrating the scales of suffering

Abstract

BOOK REVIEWED-Do Fish Feel Pain?by Victoria BraithwaiteOxford University Press: 2010. 256 pp. 29.95Biologist Victoria Braithwaite found herself in the media spotlight in 2003 after publishing research findings suggesting that fish feel pain. After injecting the faces of trout with bee venom and vinegar, anatomical and physiological studies revealed nerve endings called nociceptors, which respond to noxious stimulation.