Insect welfare

TagLast edit: Oct 5, 2022, 1:48 PM by Lizka

Insect welfare is the study of interventions aimed at improving the welfare of insects, and the study of the distribution of sentience across insects.

Insects raised for food and feed — global scale, practices, and policy

abrahamroweJun 29, 2020, 1:57 PM

95 points

13 comments29 min readEA link

A Primer for Insect Sentience and Welfare (as of Sept 2023)

Meghan BarrettSep 26, 2023, 10:40 PM

115 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing the Launch of the Insect Institute

Dustin CrummettFeb 22, 2023, 7:32 PM

220 points

22 comments1 min readEA link

Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022

Meghan BarrettNov 22, 2022, 4:46 PM

214 points

22 comments3 min readEA link

(authors.elsevier.com)

Support Critical Research on Insect Welfare

Bob FischerNov 13, 2024, 9:10 PM

127 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

If Adult Insects Matter, How Much Do Juveniles Matter?

Bob FischerFeb 6, 2023, 1:33 PM

93 points

11 comments25 min readEA link

Research summary: The evolution of nociception in arthropods

abrahamroweApr 16, 2024, 10:26 PM

59 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Exploring Corporate Campaigns Against Silk Retailers

Zuzana Sperlova🔸Jan 30, 2024, 11:30 AM

79 points

10 comments77 min readEA link

Why should I care about insects?

JamieGittinsMay 18, 2022, 7:37 PM

88 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

What will insect farming look like and actually mean for animal welfare? (Repost from my blog Karthik Logic)

Karthik PalakodetiApr 26, 2023, 8:33 AM

36 points

6 comments10 min readEA link

(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Thoughts on the welfare of farmed insects

Max_CarpendaleMay 8, 2019, 7:22 PM

35 points

11 comments8 min readEA link

Insect herbivores, life history and wild animal welfare

kcuddingJun 7, 2019, 8:52 PM

52 points

19 comments18 min readEA link

Small animals have enormous brains for their size

eukaryoteFeb 13, 2019, 5:12 AM

72 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Scale of the welfare of various animal populations

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 19, 2023, 7:10 AM

58 points

24 comments5 min readEA link

Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals

Mai TJan 27, 2023, 9:30 AM

80 points

9 comments10 min readEA link

Insect farming might cause more suffering than other animal farming

ishankhireNov 1, 2022, 9:54 AM

50 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

Drawing attention to invasive Lymantria dispar dispar spongy moth outbreaks as an important, neglected issue in wild animal welfare

Meghan BarrettMay 28, 2023, 2:18 PM

93 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Help Fund Insect Welfare Science

Bob FischerJun 14, 2024, 9:11 PM

235 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Why The Insects Scream

Bentham's BulldogMar 22, 2024, 7:40 PM

20 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

[Question] How much funding do invertebrate welfare organizations get?

Eevee🔹Jun 20, 2024, 11:47 PM

52 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Badness of eating farmed animals in terms of smoking cigarettes

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 22, 2023, 8:45 AM

26 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed yellow mealworm welfare

abrahamroweJan 3, 2024, 5:45 PM

70 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

The scale of animal agriculture

MichaelStJulesMay 16, 2024, 4:01 AM

49 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Fishing-aquaculture substitution and aquafeeds

MichaelStJulesJun 3, 2024, 5:39 AM

45 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

[Question] Do EAs feel bad for killing a mosquito? Should they feel bad?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Aug 28, 2024, 9:42 PM

17 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can easily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2025, 6:03 PM

28 points

41 comments7 min readEA link

Improving Pest Management for Wild Insect Welfare

Wild_Animal_InitiativeDec 26, 2019, 5:47 PM

35 points

1 comment41 min readEA link

The scale of direct human impact on invertebrates

abrahamroweSep 2, 2020, 1:22 PM

99 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

Cost-effectiveness of paying farmers to use more humane pesticides to decrease the suffering of wild insects

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 14, 2025, 5:57 PM

49 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_CarlsmithFeb 7, 2021, 11:16 PM

229 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

How the cricket feels and what the mealworm has to say: The influence of rearing environments on insect welfare in different food and feed production systems

Group OrganizerDec 4, 2023, 9:16 PM

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Prioritising animal welfare over global health and development?

Vasco Grilo🔸May 13, 2023, 9:03 AM

112 points

50 comments18 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 8, 2024, 5:41 PM

202 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

Humane Pesticides as the Most Marginally Effective Cause

JeffMJordanSep 22, 2015, 6:35 AM

28 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What order of magnitude of suffering does silk production create?

rajlegoSep 30, 2023, 11:35 PM

8 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is improving the welfare of arthropods and nematodes underrated?

Vasco Grilo🔸Nov 8, 2022, 10:26 AM

37 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed cricket welfare

abrahamroweMar 6, 2024, 10:10 PM

112 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

Why I Think All The Species Of Significantly Debated Consciousness Are Conscious And Suffer Intensely

Bentham's BulldogNov 20, 2024, 4:11 PM

65 points

26 comments33 min readEA link

Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong

MattBallNov 24, 2022, 1:36 PM

13 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.mattball.org)

Dr. Andrew Crump on scientific research into insect sentience

Karthik PalakodetiOct 24, 2023, 8:29 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Andre Abassi on invertebrate and insect protection legislation

Karthik PalakodetiNov 4, 2023, 8:28 PM

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Insect farming: recent investment trends and growth projections

Sagar K ShahDec 12, 2024, 2:12 PM

78 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Postdocs and PhD/MS positions in Farmed Insect Welfare for 2024

Meghan BarrettOct 10, 2023, 7:54 PM

82 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Invertebrate Welfare in Science

Andrew Crump1Feb 9, 2024, 10:54 AM

22 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

My favorite articles by Brian Tomasik and what they are about

Timothy ChanFeb 24, 2024, 6:10 PM

79 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Impartialist Sentientism and Existential Anxiety about Moral Circle Explosion

Rafael RuizJun 22, 2024, 7:53 PM

92 points

14 comments26 min readEA link

Killing the moths

BellaMar 25, 2024, 4:20 PM

235 points

17 comments5 min readEA link

Call for Expressions of Interest: NYU Wild Animal Welfare Summit

Sofia_FogelJan 10, 2024, 4:42 AM

48 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

#198 – Challenging our assumptions about insects (Meghan Barrett on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_HoursAug 29, 2024, 2:46 PM

97 points

4 comments16 min readEA link

Organizations I’m rooting for in 2025

Jakub StencelDec 30, 2024, 9:32 PM

80 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

Published: NYU CMEP and NYU CEAP 2024 Annual Reports

Sofia_FogelFeb 1, 2025, 3:28 PM

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more

Magnus VindingSep 28, 2022, 8:58 AM

87 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

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