no. i'm not eating animals period. it's still a living thing

Oh well.
People will never stop eating meat fully.
Get over it.

hmmmm. well if the animal couldn't feel any pain that would definitely be a bonus. However i would still be a vegetarian because the animal can still feel fear. unless they found a way to disconnect whatever makes them see & hear & smell. But even then I would still be a veggie. Because I just feel like its ridiculous to take a life when its really not necessary to do so. But thats just my personal opinion.

i stilll wouldn't eat it.

& who on earth would let someone test that kind of stuff on their kid?

Nah, I'll still be vegetarian no matter what. It's healthier anyway.

Vegetarians bug me,
mostly because all the ones I know are fake now.

Well, personally I won't. I Don't like the taste of meat. I think it is ridiculous to (assumingly) spend money to do such a thing.

even if the animals couldn't feel a thing, they are still living creatures with thoughts and a soul. it is not our place to play god and end that.

No, I still wouldnt eat them.
Even though that is a major reason I don't I still wouldnt because it's just my lifestyle.

How would they have proof the animals felt no pain? O.O It's not like they can vocally tell us. I eat meat anyway, it's a natural thing. People just need to tone down on raising animals as food and treating them like crap.

still a living thing, so no.
plus how are they so sure about the animals not feeling pain.
that gene could be different in humans than in animals and not be affected by the drug in the same way.

either way, no.

no matter wat....vegetarians dont only eat meat b/c animals feel pain...but b/c it is unethical to kill the innocent...and we abuse them to our advantage

This is a good idea.

I still wouldn't eat meat. It's wrong to take a life, plain and simple.

whoa.. NO. thats just weird.
we need to quit "genetically engineering" stuff in my opinion.
i know everyone is still gonna eat meat.
i DO wish we could have better ethical practices with the animals in these factory farms. but i really don't like this idea of the animals being engineered to not feel pain. it's just wrong in some way, and kind of sick. and i can only imagine how the workers will treat the animals then, once they "know" they can't "feel pain".
i just really don't like this idea at all.

If there is a way to make the animals feel no pain, then I say go for it. I personally, love meat and can't not eat it (I've tried being a vegetarian, and I failed). Even though I eat meat I still love and care about animals. It would make me feel better about eating meat if the animals were treated more humanely instead of being slaughtered carelessly.

Also, I really don't understand how being a vegetarian is "better for the environment". Could someone explain that to me?

yes. they can still have fear.

well i eat meat now. i dnt see the point in tht cuz ppl rnt gnna change th beliefs and i thnk not being able to feel pain isnt right especially wen u can help it. it sets safety boudries. they cld jump through the electric fences cuz it wldnt matter cuz they cldnt feel it and if they got stuck they would die. this is a stupid idea!!!!!

i dont refer myself as a vegan but i dont think stopping animals from feeling the pain would make one starts eating them. i mean it still feels like you slaughter a human being to eat them. :/

As a meat eater i dont really like talking about issues like this but if they dont feel pain, i guess it kind of helps.

You're missing the point. Where can I get this shot?

that's just as cruel as the killing of the animals now

Don't think so. There's still the environmental and health issues of eating animals and animal byproducts.

Those animals were raised for us to eat them, SO What? Get over it people. You can't make everyone in the world stop eating meat. plus we would become over populated with animals!

it would definatly help, and i think i would start eating meat again.

Meat has a sertain vitamin in it that you CAN NOT get from your pills that you take. you'r not health if your a vegan!

Don't do it. It's stupid to screw with the animals like that.

Weather it feels or not, I'm still not eating it. It's still living and deserves to live and be treated right.

Listen to me people, if you don't like meat cause they beat the animals and process them, THEN RAISE YOUR OWN CHICKENS AND COWS! so that way when you get sick from meat you can blame yourself, and not the meat company!

What part of the animals you people eat are raised to be killed and ate. If people didn't eat meat then they wouldn't be over populated because they wouldn't be raised for food.Simple as that.

I'd still never eat another living, feeling thing. Just because it can't feel pain doesn't mean it can't feel fear or sorrow for being torn away from it's mother or child or family.

I haven't eaten meet in two years.

Thanks to Peta and Chris Drew.
Lol. Yay for vegitarianism!:D this is really cute writing. Lol,

It'd be good that they wouldn't feel pain, but I still wouldn't eat meat. It'd still be bad for you, the environment, and I would feel bad ending the life of an innocent animal.

I still wouldn't eat an animal.

It's a waste of resources. We can feed a lot of starving people by using the food grown to get animals fat or keep them alive for milk and eggs. Just feed people! Skip the animal argument.

I'm going to eat chicken, pork, cow,regardless. Animal cruelty is wrong but food is food.

I feel bad when thinking about the horrible treatment the animals get, but i still eat meat and always will. And how would we know if this gene thing works on the animals? They can't exactly tell us that they are/aren't feeling pain.

No, we'd still be destroying their lives to continue on with ours. Cutting out the pain doesn't make it right. Would it be ethical to to kill a human if they felt no pain in the process? Would that make homicide legal? These animals still have the desire to live and the fear of their torturers.

i definitely agree with courtney. all of the vegetarian stuff, its mostly just a trend going around. this would certainly be a plus, but i eat meat either way.

I don't care.
Animals were put on this earth so we could eat them. Get over it.

Ok animals and plants are both living things on this earth GOD, didn't put nothing on this earth for us to eat so eat what you can or enjoy cause they are here for us. plants help the earth and animals gases are killing the earth more and more.

Killing animals for our own pleasure is wrong, no matter how it's done. BUT maybe it wouldn't bother me so much, if the killing was done in a humane way, if the animals were treated right.and if they weren't mass produced, and pumped full of steroids and other things. You know how many animals are just killed put on shelves and not bought and it just goes to waste. maybe if everyone raised there own stuff. but I don't see that happening. Either way I wouldn't eat meat.

i would never eat meat, and that's terrible to be testing it on children.

They didn't test it on the kids! The kids were born like that!

The reason I don't eat meat is just simply by choice, animals are raised to be killed an ate, it's human nature, just like some of them attack and eat us, and other animals. To me, I'm not going to eat meat, just because it's a choice I made, I do feel badly for the animals though. Being a Vegan or Vegetarian isn't REALLY healthier for your body unless you're smart about it, meat it protein, and you need protein, yes, it's found in other things, but it really just goes about how you eat meat, over consuming or not.

Either way, killing is killing, pain or not.

that's still a horrible life to live. it's not right to just kill an animal to eat it when you can eat other stuff and survive.

i would never eat them even if they couldnt feel pain. they're still living breathing creatures.

I still wouldn't eat meat!

its still killing them so no!

i eat meat and couldnt be a vegetarian for the life of me. if there was a way that it was pain-free, it would probably make me feel better. i love animals but dont like how animals i eat get killed the way they do.

waste of money...

with out pain, how would one come to realize the feeling of anti-pain, ie bliss...

Its still a living thing with emotions. The answer is still NO

I would still be a vegetarian. It's still killing the animal. Why is it only considered murder when a human is killed? Animals feel, smell, see, and hear just like us. Society is messed up sometimes...

still it is not right to eat them

THIS IS SUCH A STUPID EXCUSE!!!
They still die. That's what matters in the end. That's like saying we should be able to kill humans if they feel no pain. How are animals any different? They have lives too. We may not realize it but they do and we have no right to just kill them for our own selfish needs.

And to people saying it's "natural"...if you're going to make that excuse to eat meat, please get rid of everything you own that isn't *cough* "natural". In other words, throw out absolutely everything you own including the clothes on your back and go as far as possible from any kind of civilization at all and live like that if you're gonna make that excuse.

We are smart enough to know that we don't need meat. We can get by without it. So let's stop being stupid and stop eating meat.

no, pain or not it's still a life that should have the same rights as we do to live. we can speak up for ourselves, they can't.

I would still be a vegetarian.
So now were going to kill them, AND cut off their senses? Killing is killing is killing. Plus, if this happens, then it will just be another pointless "excuse" for meat eaters. And for all you saying you cant live without meat, stfu. You'd be better off without all the extra fat clogging your arteries. It'll let more of the blood to your brain you'll need it.

its like fish...lol

Mmmmmmmmmmmeat. <3

i'd never eat anything genetically modified!!

Nope I wouldn't, they're still living beings so it's gross....

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures. ~Leonardo Davinci

It's unethical to do that to them.
I'm not a vegetarian because every time I try, my body completely rejects it, but I agree with and support vegetarian beliefs.

But I would become a vegetarian if I found out that the animals I was eating were genetically modified. If they can't feel pain, they'll do things that they normally wouldn't do. Like the little kid who sliced his palm and walked on hot coals. There's a reason we can feel pain, it's to protect us. I would NOT eat animals like that, no matter how sick I got.

Hmm...I would feel a little better about it, but just because they feel no pain doesn't mean they feel no pain. Just because they feel no physical pain doesn't mean they don't suffer inside about their unpleasent living conditions...

(btw the picture of the cow is ADORAAAABLE)

i still wouldn't eat a piggy

NO. I would NOT eat "pain free" animals.
1. They would probably regulated just as much as the animals people eat now are. (as in... not.)
2. They're still animals! Still living!
3. They're so bad for your health.
4. Bad for the environment... etc, etc.
5. This would be a waste of money! Just get everyone to go vegetarian, duh.

no. did they eat the children that couldn't feel pain? i hope not.

i will never understand vegetarians... why is it okay for a killer whale to kill and eat baby seals but it's completely unethical for humans (carnivorous animals, no matter how intelligent) to kill and eat animals as well?

ALSO, please explain to me how eating meat is unhealthy despite all of the necessary nutrients for a balanced diet found in meat. you're all brainwashed by PETA...

No. This is totally insane! Taking the pain element out of humans or animals could lead to death. We have pain so we can know whne something is wrong with our bodies, animals are the same way. Any who, even if they took the pain away people would still treat the animals horrible. Just because they couldn't feel it dosen't make it okay. We are humans lets be humane.

Nope.
I still wouldn't eat meat.

I don`t eat meat now and wont be eating meat then!!!

Yes; I would feel better about eating meat. But I will eat meat regardless. YAY MEAT! See, my body is DESIGNED to eat meat, so I do!!

I don't know. At least they don't feel anything, which makes me happier.
You can't stop people from eating meat.

I am not sure that even if animals could not feel pain how would these persons in these factory farms behave towards these animals..would they take advantage of them more so??? i think they would

I am not sure that even if animals could not feel pain how would these persons in these factory farms behave towards these animals..would they take advantage of them more so??? i think they would

actually i'm pretty sure in the bible it says somewhere that animals were put on this earth for man to eat. but I could be wrong

Lol yes, I'd continue eating meat.
Wouldn't really...change anything to me.
It'd make some of the veggs happy though, gues...thats a plus side? right?

and I don't think i could ever stop eating meat :/ I mean I feel bad but i can't stop.

i don't think disconnecting the pain gene in animals warrants us to treat them with less compassion and mercy. I eat meat but I'm thinking of becoming a vegetarian as I am discovering just how awful the truth is behind the curtains.

how about the animal providers take the cruelness down a notch

no.
i feel like this is 10x more wrong then eating animals that do feel pain.

pain is an indicator that something is wrong with our bodies, take that away, and you wouldn't know if the animal was sick. with their moaning you can tell they feel something wrong. to me this doesn't make anything better, it seems a lot more like some creepy Frankenstein experiment to me. So, no, i would not.

pshh pshh i eat maet with no guilt...if they do that that would be a waste of money to the farmers. and the meat better taste even better!!

it's the circle of life. if we didn't eat meat, they would probably be the alpha dogs of this world.

they didn't test it on their kid people. the child was born with the mutation, and socialvibe used that as an example. i guess this is good for all the peta people worried about meat eating ethics. people gotta eat one way or another.

i also agree with the girl who mentioned pain indicators and sickness. factory animals aren't too healthy as it is in their conditions. no feeling of pain could heighten the risks of our health, and the animals.

Anyone who doesn't eat animals because "its a living thing"-is an idiot.I am all for not HARMING them & causing them pain-but wtf.Its NATURE. Its how things go.If it came down to it,between you & a lion-a lion would eat you & not think twice about it-because you are FOOD it is SUPPOSE TO DO IT,just like we are suppose to eat meat to.If we weren't-cows chicken wouldnt be here & people wouldn't have started eating animals thousands of years ago.Get over it.

oh sure, and why don't we eat those children, too?

no, i still wouldnt want to eat animals...

i dont think it makes it any better at all:/ just cause the cow doesnt feel any pain doesnt mean its not gonna be scarred when they kill it:(

i don't care!
i like to eat meat, and that's that. i'm never going to stop.

No way. Eating meat would still be bad for the environment.

I already eat meat. Feel as if I couldn't live w/o it.

They say good milk/cheese/meat comes from happy cows. Will this change their emotions so much that the rest of them will taste different?
If so...

How would you guys feel about eating old cows.
Like if they were human, they'd be on life support-type cows.
I'm sure grandpa would want you to put him out of his misery.

Could you eat them while they were still alive

Well, i eat meat, but not alot, & sometimes i wonder if they do feel pain, so if they didn't feel pain at all, it would be greatt, but eating animal is wrond,even though i do it sommetimes..."/

Umm, if they don't feel pain that's greatt, & i eat animals now, but i still feel it's wrong..

no. thats really altering with nature and can lead to severe consequenses. what if i eat that and my kid comes out with a serious health problem!

Everything dies, and everything gets eaten. "...Every moving
thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green
herb have I given you all things..." - Genesis 9:3.
God put animals on this earth so we could eat them. They are a nice source of nutrition, to say the least.
I eat meat, and will continue to.

I do :/. but starting later this year im gona be a vegetarian, one more down.

Maybe, but it sounds like there would be some side-affects in the meat.
I dont like the scientists messing with the animals
like that.

So when is it ok for man to play the role of a higher power? Who are we to decide what lives and what dies? Who are we to decide what animals can and can not feel? I know animals will always be eaten and always will be killed, but just because they can not FEEL does not make it right! An animal has a family just like people do, an animal lives and breathes and walks just like people do! Now I'm not saying that every one should be a veg-head but I'm just saying that animals don't deserve to be killed. They ARE innocent. I guess what I am trying to say is you can't take back a life, and if you would NEVER be able to eat a human, then why would you eat an animal? An animal has a heart, a brain, feelings, legs/arms, and BLOOD just like us. So why do it to an animal?

well if that's the case, you may as well start eating people.
it's still not okay.

I don't think so, that kind of makes it worse but better for the animal

it sounds kinda awful but id still eat a cheesburger with or out without. of course it would be better for the animal, and it makes me think...in what way are the animals being killed that they feel so much pain? tried the vegetarian thing but i love meat too much. sorrryy.

We should just stop being lazy/cheap and treat the animals properly. Their actual death is painless, so why can't they all be free range and grass fed. Kobe beef is an exreme example, but the right direction - imagine how little pain (and fear, per the comment below) the cows feel while buzzed on Asahi all day

I agree with EnhydraLutris, but I am not a vegetarian. You simply need the protein from meat when you are growing up. I do agree that it is sad to hear about slaughter. For example, McDonalds is currently under attack by PETA for the way they slaughter their chickens. If you make something less in demand, then it wont be made.

WTF kind of ? is this?!!! I do not eat animals and this is ridiculous that it is even being researched!!!!!!!!!! Animals should not die for food, we are not a caveman society we do not need to kill to have a meal anymore!!!!

That's creepy and really messed up.
It would probably be a maaajor waste of money to even try to make it so all animals rasied for food to not feel pain.
If they wanna make it better, find more ethical ways to kill them, that's a much better start imo.

No. Pain is just a part of life, I guess. Somehow I find this cruel as well.

Meat is a source for protien and bone growth you need it

The physical suffering is only one factor, what about the animal's metal suffering, and the unethical, barbaric methods of slaughter houses>!?

I'll still eat meat no matter what. Animals were put on earth for us to eat. It's called the food chain. Most animals eat other animals, so I really don't get people who say killing animals to eat is wrong.

No! I think the fact that they are "altering" the genetics of these animals so that they don't feel pain is just as bad as if they could feel pain. That's awful.

No, i still wouldn't eat it. It's still a living, breathing thing. It can still see you coming with the pitchfork, and it will still die an unneccesary death.

No, I wouldn't eat it. I think it's almost worse than animals that can actually feel pain.

It still has to live a miserable lifestyle, and it still has to be killed.

I would personally not eat it.
It makes it better, it does not fix it.