In April 2022, the United Kingdom passed the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act. It formed a committee to make recommendations for animals it deemed sentient, including non-human vertebrates (including livestock), cephalopods (like octopus), and decapods (like lobsters and shrimp.)

The thinking seems to be you need sentience to experience pain. I’m not sure I agree with that but I’m not a biologist. It seems that sentience could make you worry about the potential for pain. But even grass reacts when it is mowed, releasing chemicals, that cut grass smell I used to love until I found that it was the grass screaming.
What makes the UK act interesting is that the list of critters that are considered sentient is growing. According to a recent study, even insects may have a form of sentience. Spiders likely dream and bees weigh the cost benefit of pain.
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