Simple Summary Pain is an unpleasant emotional state that produces behavioural changes
to minimize future tissue damage and promote recovery and survival. These behavioural …

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Affective states, such as emotions, are presumably widespread across the animal kingdom
because of the adaptive advantages they are supposed to confer. However, the study of the …

The welfare of fishes and aquatic invertebrates is important, and several jurisdictions have
included these taxa under welfare regulation in recent years. Regulation of welfare requires …

The insects as food and feed (IAFF) industry represents one of the largest undertakings of
industrial livestock rearing in human history, with at least a trillion animals reared each year …

Insect farming for animal feed production is considered a promising alternative to the
traditional feed manufacturing sector, because of its low ecological footprint and circular use …

Two problems related to the identification of consciousness are the distribution problem—or
how and among which entities consciousness is distributed in the world—and the moral …

Climate change, agricultural intensification, and other anthropogenic ecosystem challenges
have caused declines in the diversity and abundance of insect pollinators. In response to …

Abstract Yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor; Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) are currently the
most farmed holometabolous insect species in the insects as food and feed industry, with …

In a thought-provoking target article, Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (S&C) discuss the possibility
that plants are sentient, focusing on a series of capacities normally attributed only to human …