Uk government recognises crabs, lobsters & prawns as sentient and plans to protect them!
Crustacean Compassion, November 21, 2021
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This is probably the most exciting news piece we’ve written so far! This week the UK government released a report ‘Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans’, which concluded that these animals are sentient, can feel pain and should be protected in law. Decapods are sentient In 2020, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) commissioned an independent research team from the London School of Economics to investigate whether animal
