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Sentience Matters: Analysing the Regulation of Calf-Roping in Australian Rodeos
Animals, 2022 Animal sentience is recognised either implicitly or explicitly in legislation in all Australian states and territories. In these jurisdictions, animal welfare legislation prohibits acts of cruelty towards animals because animals have the capacity to ...
Morgan Stonebridge +2 more
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Animals, 2023 Taking a cue from J.W. Yates’ recent work on animal sentience published in this journal, which explores the field and categorizes it as a harmony with nature and a recognition of its values, inferring that the inclusion of animals in the sphere of ...
Giuseppe Pulina
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The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness [PDF]
, 2020 There is no agreement on whether any invertebrates are conscious and no agreement on a methodology that could settle the issue. How can the debate move forward?
Birch, Jonathan
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The sentience shift in animal research
The New Bioethics, 2022 One of the primary concerns in animal research is ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals. Modern views on animal welfare emphasize the role of animal sentience, i.e. the capacity to experience subjective states such as pleasure or suffering, as a central component of welfare.
Browning, Heather, Veit, Walter
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Animal sentience research: Synthesis and proposals
Animal Sentience, 2022 Most commentaries on our target article broadly support our approach to evaluating evidence of animal sentience. In this Response, we clarify the framework’s purpose and address criticisms of our criteria. A recurring theme is that a framework to synthesise current evidence of sentience is not the same as an agenda for future directions in animal ...
Crump, Andrew +4 more
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Ascribing Sentience: Evidential and Ethical Considerations in Policymaking
Animals, 2022 Deciding which animals are sentient is an important precursor for decisions about the application of animal welfare legislation, and the wider assessment of the impacts of policies on animal suffering.
James William Yeates
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Foxes, hounds, and horses : Who or which? [PDF]
, 2006 Writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the word who rather than which. An examination of texts relating to foxhunting on the world wide web showed that, in reference to the nonhuman ...
Gupta, A.F.
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Societal sentience: constructions of the public in animal research policy and practice [PDF]
, 2017 The use of non-human animals as models in research and drug testing is a key route through which contemporary scientific knowledge is certified. Given ethical concerns, regulation of animal research promotes the use of less ‘sentient’ animals. This paper
APC (Animal Procedures Committee) +12 more
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The Mental Lives of Sheep and the Quest for a Psychological Taxonomy [PDF]
, 2019 In this commentary on Marino and Merskin's "Intelligence, complexity, and individuality in sheep", I argue that their literature review provides further evidence of the fundamental theoretical shift in psychology towards a non-anthropocentric ...
Figdor, Carrie
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Recognition of emotion and pain by owners benefits the welfare of donkeys in a challenging working environment [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Working donkeys (Equus asinus) support human living standards globally. However, there is little information on the effect of human perceptions of emotion and pain on the welfare of working donkeys.
Syed S.U.H. Bukhari +3 more
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