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The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
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If insects are sentient and sentience implies rights, what follows for food security and public health? I call this the "insect challenge" for animal ethics. The Journal of Practical Ethics has a new symposium on it, with an article by me and 3 replies: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/ 1/5
Growing evidence is exposing how power, influence, and economic and political incentives shape current food systems - with industrialised pig farming revealing outcomes misaligned with the public interest, animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and public health.
After a recent vote, New York is now very close to banning octopus farming - joining California and Washington, where bans are already in force.
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
Jonathan Birch
Special issue now online: Gandhi's Ahimsaism, Insects, and Animal Sentience.
Target article by @birchlse.bsky.social with commentaries from Angie Pepper, Gary O'Brien, Samantha Hurn & Alexander Badman-King.
Now online, full publication in August: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/jpe-...
#ahimsaism
Denmark is set to move from ultra‑intensive pig farming toward a lower‑density model, following sustained evidence of welfare harms, environmental impacts, community effects, and the economic costs of the existing system - too many for citizens and politicians to ignore.
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
The Bank of England is holding a vote for the animals that will appear on the next UK banknotes. Contribute!
My vote was for hedgehogs and grey seals in the mammal category, barn owls and curlews in the bird category, and buff-tailed bumblebees and common frogs in the 'other' category.
www.science.org/content/arti...
🌍 Scientists agree we cannot reach our climate targets without significantly changing our diets.
However, food choice can be complex & controversial, and it’s unclear how to move dietary change up the policy agenda.
📅 20 June, 5pm - 6pm
📍 LSE & online
#LSEFestival
www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f...
🦞 In honor of #CrustaceanCompassionDay2026, a screening of ‘Seantience’ by Animal Ethics.
🦀The film explores the inner lives of aquatic animals & makes the ethical implications of their sentience impossible to dismiss.
🎞️ Register to watch @ 20:00 CEST → tinyurl.com/2rd3t4dr
#CCDay2026
Josh Milburn
Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026
Incredible. They can count, they can use tools, they make motivational trade-offs, can be trained, have memories, etc. At this point, I'd be more surprised to learn they don't feel pain than that they do.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lars Chittka
LSE Philosophy
5pm Sat 20 Jun | Dr Chris Bryant, Dr Tara Garnett, Dr Natalia Lawrence, Dr Feiyang Wang, Anthony Warner | Ticket required
MUST READ: How campaigners beat industrial farming in Denmark’s ‘pig election’, reports Jon Henley in The Graun. Mette Frederiksen’s new government promises overhaul for people – and animals – in home of ultra-intensive farming. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy
Like humans, bumble bees can plan ahead when working through a problem, even pausing to consider the solution
