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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Effects of Sensitivity on Shrimp Behavior

It's very difficult to have a smoking gun that tells you that an animal is sentient. So in this specific case, what they did is they looked at eight different indicators of sentience. And then they ranked whether the evidence was very high or moderately low for each individual species. They came up with an overall assessment that all cephalopods and decapods should be protected by UK animal welfare law.

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