Executive summary: Insects likely feel pain and suffer immensely from human practices like insect farming, yet this suffering is widely ignored due to speciesism and inconvenience.
Key points:
Evidence suggests insects like black soldier flies can feel pain, even if less intensely than humans.
Insect farming, projected to grow to tens of trillions of insects, subjects them to cruel practices like starvation, microwaving, and grinding.
Causing such immense suffering cannot be justified by insects’ lack of intelligence or inconvenience of changing practices.
Speciesism leads to ignoring insects’ moral worth, just as humans ignore the majority of suffering on Earth due to lack of empathy for dissimilar beings.
Supporting organizations working against insect farming is a concrete way to help reduce this suffering.
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Executive summary: Insects likely feel pain and suffer immensely from human practices like insect farming, yet this suffering is widely ignored due to speciesism and inconvenience.
Key points:
Evidence suggests insects like black soldier flies can feel pain, even if less intensely than humans.
Insect farming, projected to grow to tens of trillions of insects, subjects them to cruel practices like starvation, microwaving, and grinding.
Causing such immense suffering cannot be justified by insects’ lack of intelligence or inconvenience of changing practices.
Speciesism leads to ignoring insects’ moral worth, just as humans ignore the majority of suffering on Earth due to lack of empathy for dissimilar beings.
Supporting organizations working against insect farming is a concrete way to help reduce this suffering.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.