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370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain (opens in new tab)

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A new study supports a burgeoning challenge to the assumption that pain requires a brain anything like ours.

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Crickets Respond to Injuries in a Way That Suggests They Feel Pain

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Can Insects Feel Pain? New Research Suggests That Crickets Do

370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain