Simple Summary The production of food from animals poses many ethical challenges. This
review explores what we know about different levels of concern for animal welfare in food …

Efficient prospective motor control, evident in human activity from birth, reveals an adaptive
intentionality of a primary, pre-reflective, and pre-conceptual nature that we identify here as …

We outline a framework for evaluating scientific evidence of sentience, focusing on pain
experience. It includes eight neural and cognitive-behavioural criteria, with confidence …

Birch and colleagues have developed an important and useful framework for evaluating the
evidence for sentience–namely, the capacity to experience pain, distress and suffering, in …

We introduce and investigate the philosophical concept of 'speciesism'—the assignment of
different moral worth based on species membership—as a psychological construct. In five …

Conservation practice is informed by science, but it also reflects ethical beliefs about how
humanity ought to value and interact with Earth's biota. As human activities continue to drive …

Invertebrate animals are frequently lumped into a single category and denied welfare
protections despite their considerable cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary diversity …

We conceptualize the journey to ethical veganism in the stages of the transtheoretical model
of change, from precontemplation through contemplation, preparation, action, and …

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This
has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been …

Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have
gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we've been thinking …