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Pain, Suffering, and Euthanasia in Insects Shelomi, Matan 2021 International Journal of Applied Philosophy , Vol. 35 , Issue 1 , S. 31 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0739-098X | 2153-6910 10.5840/ijap2021129156 Abstract
While unnecessarily killing or injuring an insect is arguably wrong, euthanasia of an accidentally injured insect raises anew issues of whether insects can experience pain. The question takes renewed significance due to increasing insect farming for food and feed and concerns over farmed insect welfare. For euthanasia of a damaged insect to be justifiable, the damage must be sensed as a noxious stimulus (nociception) that the insect consciously experiences as pain. This pain must then lead to suffering or frustrated desire, with the possibility of the animal preferring death to continued existence. A failure at any of these points would deem euthanasia moot. The neurological, behavioral, and evolutionary evidence so far suggests the concept of euthanasia does not apply to insects.
SchlagwörterApplied Philosophy | General Interest | Social and Political Philosophy
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