It is not simply the capacity to feel pain, but feelings of pain, distress or harm, broadly understood, have a special significance for animal welfare law. Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we ...

The use of a less-sentient species is in line with the concept of Replacement, one of the well-known 3Rs of laboratory animal use 1. But what is a less-sentient species? Is a chimpanzee less ...

Rather, he encourages us to become better informed about the myriad ways societies and economies depend on animals—and to be more accountable for our choices. Humans, as moral beings, have a ...

It feels like something to have them. In recent years, an interdisciplinary community of animal sentience researchers, drawn from neuroscience, comparative psychology, evolutionary biology, animal ...

Freedom – an inviolable human right – is increasingly regarded as indispensable in our treatment of animals, too. The Chilean activist Mauricio Serrano Palma is fighting for the right to freedom for ...