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... that a report by the philosopher Jonathan Birch and colleagues led to cephalopods and decapods being recognised as sentient under the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act? Source: Eurogroup for Animals: "While the Bill initially only covered vertebrates, it was amended in November to include decapods and cephalopods. This was following a government commissioned review of over 300 scientific studies assessing the sentience of these animals. Carried out by an expert team at the London School of Economics (LSE) and led by Dr Jonathan Birch, the peer-reviewed, independent report concluded that there is strong scientific evidence of sentience in decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs, and that they should be included in animal protection legislation." // From the journal Animal Sentience: "Recently, the Government also announced that the Animal Sentience Bill would be extended to include not just vertebrates but also two invertebrate groups – the cephalopod mollusks (octopodi, squids and cuttlefish) and the decapod crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, shrimp and crayfish) (Baker, 2021). The driving force behind this expansion to include some invertebrates, as noted earlier in this target article, was the new report by Birch et al (2021) from the London School of Economics (see Crump et al, 2022)." // From the journal Animal Welfare: "In response to the report, the UK’s Minister for Animal Welfare, Lord Goldsmith, announced that forthcoming legislation has been extended to recognise lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings."
Overall: Good work. I couldn't determine where the photo of the crustacean came from for the title image of the report, but the report is CC-BY 4.0 and there was another image in the document that was freely licensed, so I'm not too fussed. gobonobo+c 00:29, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Good work. I couldn't determine where the photo of the crustacean came from for the title image of the report, but the report is CC-BY 4.0 and there was another image in the document that was freely licensed, so I'm not too fussed. gobonobo + c 00:29, 2 August 2023 (UTC)