Is it time to think of some animals not just as having rights, but as occupying the same moral universe as humans, worthy of our trust and capable of being betrayed? Or should the relationship between man and beast always be seen as one of human dominion? With Jim Barrington, Claire Bass, Dr Steve Cooke and Nick Zangwill. Others believe that elevating the status of animals diminishes the uniqueness of human beings. A rights-based approach has argued that since the moral status of humans overlaps with some animals, we should consider those animals equally deserving of rights. The way we treat (and whether we eat) animals has important implications, not just for the status of animals, but for the status of human beings. They argue there should be no contradiction in the idea that a nation of ‘animal lovers’ could eat billions of them every year. Critics of the proposals believe current animal welfare legislation is sufficient and worry about the unintended consequences for farming, fishing and countryside sports. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about whats real and what matters. Animal sentience refers to the ability of animals to experience pleasurable states such as joy, and aversive states such as pain and fear (Broom, D.M. Some want the bill to go even further by including invertebrates, which, for example, could ban the practice of boiling crustaceans alive. Aditya is the wild animal suffering outreach coordinator for Animal Ethics.
Many hope it would offer animals greater protection - only this week, the BBC’s Panorama programme revealed that rules designed to protect horses from a cruel death appear to be regularly ignored at one of the UK's biggest abattoirs. If the law is passed, the government will establish an Animal Sentience Committee to scrutinise policy.
Reforming law so that is consistent with the Five Domains elevates standards of animal welfare to provide animals under human care with the opportunity for a life enjoyed, not just endured.The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, currently working its way through Parliament, would for the first time formally recognise that animals have the ability to experience feelings, including pain, joy and fear. Finally, we demonstrate how the current legal test for animal welfare compliance can be extended to encompass positive affective states. This is the leading scientific model of animal welfare and recognises that animals can experience both negative and positive affective states.We propose a definition of sentience that extends current legal responsibilities to not just protect animals from unnecessary and unreasonable negative states but also provide them with opportunities for positive affective states. We argue that best-practice in assessing the welfare of animals of all species requires that the Five Domains model of animal welfare inform the legislative recognition and definition of animal sentience. If explicit recognition is to result in meaningful change, it must be accompanied by a corresponding legislative definition of sentience. The concept of animals being sentient, or capable of experiencing positive and negative affective states, has suddenly become, in the last 30 years, a topic of. Some of the difficult questions in studies of animal emotions and animal sentience go 'beyond' science, or what we think science is and what we think science can do. Animals are increasingly being recognised as sentient through international treaties and domestic legislation. Sentience the ability to feel, perceive and experience is central to the animal welfare debate as it raises the question of whether animals.
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