Insect welfare

TagLast edit: 5 Oct 2022 13:48 UTC 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

abrahamrowe29 Jun 2020 13:57 UTC

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13 comments29 min readEA link

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

Meghan Barrett26 Sep 2023 22:40 UTC

115 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing the Launch of the Insect Institute

Dustin Crummett22 Feb 2023 19:32 UTC

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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 Barrett22 Nov 2022 16:46 UTC

214 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

(authors.elsevier.com)

Support Critical Research on Insect Welfare

Bob Fischer13 Nov 2024 21:10 UTC

106 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

If Adult Insects Matter, How Much Do Juveniles Matter?

Bob Fischer6 Feb 2023 13:33 UTC

93 points

11 comments25 min readEA link

Exploring Corporate Campaigns Against Silk Retailers

Zuzana Sperlova30 Jan 2024 11:30 UTC

79 points

10 comments77 min readEA link

Insect herbivores, life history and wild animal welfare

kcudding7 Jun 2019 20:52 UTC

52 points

19 comments18 min readEA link

Scale of the welfare of various animal populations

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Mar 2023 7:10 UTC

58 points

24 comments5 min readEA link

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

Karthik Palakodeti26 Apr 2023 8:33 UTC

36 points

6 comments10 min readEA link

(karthiklogic.substack.com)

Why should I care about insects?

JamieGittins18 May 2022 19:37 UTC

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19 comments5 min readEA link

Small animals have enormous brains for their size

eukaryote13 Feb 2019 5:12 UTC

71 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Thoughts on the welfare of farmed insects

Max_Carpendale8 May 2019 19:22 UTC

35 points

11 comments8 min readEA link

Research summary: The evolution of nociception in arthropods

abrahamrowe16 Apr 2024 22:26 UTC

59 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

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

Meghan Barrett28 May 2023 14:18 UTC

93 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Insect farming might cause more suffering than other animal farming

ishankhire1 Nov 2022 9:54 UTC

50 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

Help Fund Insect Welfare Science

Bob Fischer14 Jun 2024 21:11 UTC

234 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals

Mai T27 Jan 2023 9:30 UTC

80 points

9 comments10 min readEA link

The scale of animal agriculture

MichaelStJules16 May 2024 4:01 UTC

49 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Fishing-aquaculture substitution and aquafeeds

MichaelStJules3 Jun 2024 5:39 UTC

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)28 Aug 2024 21:42 UTC

17 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Humane Pesticides as the Most Marginally Effective Cause

JeffMJordan22 Sep 2015 6:35 UTC

26 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

Improving Pest Management for Wild Insect Welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative26 Dec 2019 17:47 UTC

35 points

1 comment41 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 Organizer4 Dec 2023 21:16 UTC

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0 comments1 min readEA link

Prioritising animal welfare over global health and development?

Vasco Grilo🔸13 May 2023 9:03 UTC

112 points

50 comments18 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

Toby Tremlett🔹8 Feb 2024 17:41 UTC

194 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

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

rajlego30 Sep 2023 23:35 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Nov 2022 10:26 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed cricket welfare

abrahamrowe6 Mar 2024 22:10 UTC

112 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹20 Jun 2024 23:47 UTC

52 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Why The Insects Scream

Omnizoid22 Mar 2024 19:40 UTC

20 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed yellow mealworm welfare

abrahamrowe3 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

70 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC

228 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

Badness of eating farmed animals in terms of smoking cigarettes

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Jul 2023 8:45 UTC

26 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Impartialist Sentientism and Existential Anxiety about Moral Circle Explosion

Rafael Ruiz22 Jun 2024 19:53 UTC

90 points

14 comments26 min readEA link

Andre Abassi on invertebrate and insect protection legislation

Karthik Palakodeti4 Nov 2023 20:28 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding28 Sep 2022 8:58 UTC

87 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Killing the moths

Bella25 Mar 2024 16:20 UTC

234 points

17 comments5 min readEA link

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

80000_Hours29 Aug 2024 14:46 UTC

96 points

4 comments16 min readEA link

Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong

MattBall24 Nov 2022 13:36 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.mattball.org)

Invertebrate Welfare in Science

Andrew Crump19 Feb 2024 10:54 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Meghan Barrett10 Oct 2023 19:54 UTC

82 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

My favorite articles by Brian Tomasik and what they are about

Timothy Chan24 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC

76 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Call for Expressions of Interest: NYU Wild Animal Welfare Summit

Sofia_Fogel10 Jan 2024 4:42 UTC

48 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Dr. Andrew Crump on scientific research into insect sentience

Karthik Palakodeti24 Oct 2023 20:29 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(karthiklogic.substack.com)

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