Values and animal sentience bill from Nuffield

Trust thought for today - Values and the Animal Sentience Bill

The Animal Sentience bill is fascinating and complex. Apart from the bleedin obvious which anyone who has ever met an animal will feel odd there is even a conversation, there are interesting issues which the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has been reflecting on.

This blog from Peter Mills really worth reading and their study on Genome editing and farmed animal breeding: social and ethical issues

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"The Animal Sentience Committee exists to address one question, namely, “whether, or to what extent, the government is having, or has had, all due regard to the ways in which the policy might have an adverse effect on the welfare of animals as sentient beings.”


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