Perceptions of Farm Animal Sentience and Suffering

This state varies according to the perception of the situation by the animal (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety. ANSES, ...

Animal welfare at slaughter: perceptions and knowledge across ...

Although slaughter is met with potentially purposeful confusion in a bid to maintain cognitive dissonance and protection from vicarious traumas of suffering, ...

At what stage of development do animals become sentient?

Animal sentience is the capacity of an animal to experience different feelings such as suffering or pleasure. The onset of sentience, ...

Not Human, But... : Shifting Perceptions of Farm Animals

This project explores the use of visual communication to inspire a shift in Western European societies' perception of farm animals, focusing on ...

Entertaining Commodities or Living Beings? Public Perception of ...

Our findings also suggest that people sympathize with the need to enhance animal welfare but have low levels of sensitivity to the maltreatment ...

Pigs' capacity to experience feelings and to suffer from tail lesion ...

The aim of this study was to gain insight into the perceptions of pig farm and abattoir workers as well as lay citizens regarding (1) sentience ...

Farmed Animals: How Factory Farming Affects Different Species

The term “farm animals” implies that those animals exist solely to be farmed, which is untrue. There is no evidence to suggest that farmed ...

Attitudes of South Brazilian sheep farmers to animal welfare and ...

South Brazilian farmer knowledge about animal welfare, attitudes to sentience and recognition of suffering need improvement. Key words: animal welfare, emotions ...

Exploring citizens and pig farm and abattoir workers' knowledge and ...

Citizens also tend to reject intensive animal production systems and practices that they believe cause stress and suffering to animals, and ...

A Systematic Review on Awareness, Willingness and Dietary Change

A major factor in attributing fewer sentience capacities to farmed animals can be the (physical and emotional) distance between the consumed species and ...

Sentience and Intrinsic Worth as a Pluralist Foundation for ...

In this respect, Lora Dunn and David B Rosengard assert that 'Without being sentient, animals cannot suffer; sentience is therefore implicitly ...

Current Consumer Perceptions of Animal Welfare across Different ...

awareness, perceptions, and attitudes toward farm animal welfare standards on farms in Ireland ... Sentience of the animal. •. Lack of ...

The Ethics of Rearing Animals for Meat: Can Sentience Provide a ...

humane treatment and in order to prevent unnecessary suffering of farm animals, animal welfare legislation (in the UK) sets various minimum ...

Animals, empathy and the moral issues that divide us - Animals Asia

Animals that we raise for food are capable of feeling pain and pleasure and have interests as individuals. By farming them and consuming them we ...

Consumers' Attitudes towards Animal Suffering: A Systematic

Results show that consumers have low awareness of animal agriculture. Awareness of animal agricultural practices and animal sentience is associated with ...

Animal sentience: their emotions, feelings, and experiences of life

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) understands animal sentience to mean that animals have emotions, feelings, perceptions, ...

An assessment of pig farmers, veterinarians, students, and citizens

The results of the 194 responses provide evidence to suggest that the pig farmers did not ascribe their animals a diminished capacity to suffer.

People's perception on animal welfare: why does it matter?

While the great public concern towards farm and laboratory animals resulted in increased efforts to assess animal welfare in these instances, ...

Loving Animals to Death - The American Scholar

Animals are not objects, and their welfare matters to the extent that they should not suffer the abusive confines of factory farms. They deserve ...

A Consensus on Factory Farming - Cato Unbound

Andy Lamey argues that animal suffering is indeed worth taking seriously as a moral concern. So too, he adds, is animal killing. He observes ...