Re: Ireland, Tom (2025, September 8) Six-legged suffering. The Biologist. September
(1) The evidence of sentience and suffering in all vertebrates is beyond any reasonable doubt.
(2) The evidence of sentience and suffering in some (perhaps eventually all) invertebrates is growing.
(3) The only ethical principle that can be applied is for humans to refrain from causing suffering in sentient organisms wherever it is physically possible, except where it is vitally necessary for human survival and health.
(4) Ethical principle (3) is not yet being applied in the human consumption of (1) even though it is already, and has long been, maximally pressing.
(5) Applying (3) to (2) will probably become more pressing with evidence and time.
(6) Is preoccupation with (5) now likely to delay applying (3) to (1)?