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The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Sentience Bill - Can Sensible Animals Feel Pain?

There is a new bill called the animal welfare or the sentience bill, that was proposed to the u.K. Government and has been under review since then. Originally the law only in only included vertebrates, but there was a push after this study was upublished for sephalopods and decopods. There's good evidence to support the fact that they feel, and specifically, they feel pain. And i think each individual person from a moral philosophy perspective also has to grapple with and determine their own line.

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