Animal Sentience Archive

Nov 13, 2024

Posted at 13:19h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Farm Animals, WellBeing News, Wild Animals, Working/Equid Animals - By and

This article is the first installment of a three-part newsletter series examining the impact of human conflicts on animals. The newsletter series is adapted from the original blog by Cox and Zee, which was published by the Conflict and Environment Observatory and republished with their...

Oct 10, 2024

Posted at 15:59h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Farm Animals, WellBeing News - By

In 2014, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) launched a campaign entitled "End the Cage Age" to end the use of cages for farmed animals in the European Union (EU). Toward the end of 2018, CIWF registered a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) with the European Commission...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:42h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By

In the early 21st century, several animal protection organizations in the United States were collectively spending approximately $6 million annually on farmed animal welfare campaigns. In contrast, the animal agriculture industry was worth over a hundred billion dollars in the country, and few advocates believed...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:38h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher widely regarded as the "father" of the modern "Animal Rights" movement. However, as a Utilitarian, Singer does not agree with rights-based philosophical arguments. Like Jeremy Bentham, who argued that the criterion placing animals on the moral scale was their...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 11:10h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Author David M. Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D., loves intellectual challenges. Previously, he wrote an article on whether or not animals can commit suicide, which has been downloaded over 44,000 times from the WellBeing International Studies Repository since its publication in late 2017. Now, the author has shifted...

Feb 20, 2024

Posted at 14:21h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment Well-being, Land Management, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By

In 1700, so many beaver pelts were stored in Montreal warehouses that they threatened to glut the market, something that traders had already experienced in previous years. So, fearing that prices in Europe would crash, orders were given to pile up and burn fully three-quarters...

Feb 05, 2024

Posted at 14:28h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, WellBeing News - By

At the end of 2023, Open Philanthropy, a nonprofit organization, distributed its newsletter, including a global progress report on farmed animal welfare and food system change. Lewis Bollard, the Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer for Open Philanthropy, authored the report. Bollard’s initial comments address the...

Jan 23, 2024

Posted at 09:55h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Wild Animals - By and

In 2017, the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus closed down, reportedly because of declining attendance. However, the circus had also been a target of escalating protests by animal advocates. Shows involving wild animals in Las Vegas have also been under attack by animal...

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