Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
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Can Shrimps Respond to Anaesthesia?
It's very difficult to have a smoking gun that tells you that an animal is sentient, right? So in this specific case, what they did as they looked at, i believe it was a different indicators of sentience. And those included whether they had no seceptors or the right body parts to detect noxious stimuli. If anaesthesia was applied to certain body parts, whether the reaction changed, which would indicate that it's not a reflex. They ranked whether the evidence was very high, high to moderately low, et cetera, for each individual species. And then they ame up with an overall assessment that all sephelopots and equipots should be protected by u
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