Scientific Updates: Octopuses, Squid, Crabs, Lobsters, and Shrimp are Sentient Beings and Eat Your Vegetables!
Each issue of Vegan Journal includes a Scientific Update column by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD. Here we review recent scientific papers related to vegetarianism. In the latest issue we covered a paper describing the importance of getting infants and toddlers to eat a variety of vegetables. Another research paper we reviewed shared the news that in the United Kingdom “all cephalopod mollusks and decapod crustaceans should be regarded as sentient animals for the purposes of UK animal welfare law.” Sentience is described as the capacity to have feelings including feelings of pain, harm, and/or distress.
Read the column here: https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2022issue2/2022_issue2_scientific_update.php
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