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

99 points

13 comments29 min readEA link

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

Meghan Barrett26 Sep 2023 22:40 UTC

118 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing the Launch of the Insect Institute

Dustin Crummett22 Feb 2023 19:32 UTC

222 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 Barrett22 Nov 2022 16:46 UTC

217 points

23 comments3 min readEA link

(authors.elsevier.com)

Support Critical Research on Insect Welfare

Bob Fischer13 Nov 2024 21:10 UTC

127 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

Why should I care about insects?

JamieGittins18 May 2022 19:37 UTC

88 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

Small animals have enormous brains for their size

eukaryote13 Feb 2019 5:12 UTC

75 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Research summary: The evolution of nociception in arthropods

abrahamrowe16 Apr 2024 22:26 UTC

59 points

3 comments7 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

Exploring Corporate Campaigns Against Silk Retailers

Zuzana Sperlova🔸30 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

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)

Thoughts on the welfare of farmed insects

Max_Carpendale8 May 2019 19:22 UTC

35 points

11 comments8 min readEA link

Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals

Mai T27 Jan 2023 9:30 UTC

88 points

9 comments10 min readEA link

Help Fund Insect Welfare Science

Bob Fischer14 Jun 2024 21:11 UTC

239 points

32 comments2 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)

Total number of neurons and welfare of animal populations

Vasco Grilo🔸11 Oct 2025 8:57 UTC

35 points

11 comments12 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

Improving Pest Management for Wild Insect Welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative26 Dec 2019 17:47 UTC

35 points

2 comments41 min readEA link

Cost-effectiveness accounting for soil nematodes, mites, and springtails

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Jun 2025 16:43 UTC

67 points

46 comments23 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

More animal farming increases animal welfare if soil animals have negative lives?

Vasco Grilo🔸26 Oct 2025 9:21 UTC

15 points

29 comments17 min readEA link

Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird

Bob Fischer23 Nov 2025 12:44 UTC

122 points

25 comments3 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

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Chicken welfare reforms may be beneficial or harmful accounting for effects on wild arthropods?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 May 2025 15:53 UTC

74 points

52 comments15 min readEA link

Fishing-aquaculture substitution and aquafeeds

Michael St Jules 🔸3 Jun 2024 5:39 UTC

45 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Feb 2025 18:03 UTC

30 points

44 comments7 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed yellow mealworm welfare

abrahamrowe3 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

70 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹20 Jun 2024 23:47 UTC

53 points

3 comments1 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

Effects on microorganisms are much larger than those on animals and plants under the assumptions of Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges?

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Jul 2025 16:26 UTC

14 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

Eating Honey is (Probably) Fine, Actually

Linch2 Jul 2025 22:08 UTC

138 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

(linch.substack.com)

To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs

Bob Fischer17 Nov 2025 13:37 UTC

164 points

35 comments2 min readEA link

Humane Pesticides as the Most Marginally Effective Cause

JeffMJordan22 Sep 2015 6:35 UTC

28 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

The scale of direct human impact on invertebrates

abrahamrowe2 Sep 2020 13:22 UTC

101 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails, or at least be transparent about their reasons for neglecting them?

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Jul 2025 11:41 UTC

30 points

66 comments6 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

Toby Tremlett🔹8 Feb 2024 17:41 UTC

206 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed cricket welfare

abrahamrowe6 Mar 2024 22:10 UTC

112 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC

232 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

The scale of animal agriculture

Michael St Jules 🔸16 May 2024 4:01 UTC

51 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Saving human lives cheaply is the most cost-effective way of increasing animal welfare?

Vasco Grilo🔸7 Aug 2025 16:29 UTC

23 points

17 comments16 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

Prioritise soil animals over farmed invertebrates?

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Nov 2025 9:58 UTC

46 points

8 comments7 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Jan 2025 17:57 UTC

50 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Why The Insects Scream

Bentham's Bulldog22 Mar 2024 19:40 UTC

20 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

The Case for Insect Consciousness

Vasco Grilo🔸24 Apr 2025 16:58 UTC

105 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

(asteriskmag.com)

[Question] Should I have been asked to stop posting about soil animals on Hive’s Slack?

Vasco Grilo🔸12 Aug 2025 17:03 UTC

−7 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

The Lies of Big Bug

Bentham's Bulldog23 Jun 2025 15:38 UTC

82 points

14 comments4 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

Insects Are Not Moderately Important

Bentham's Bulldog23 Apr 2025 10:47 UTC

64 points

37 comments6 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

Andre Abassi on invertebrate and insect protection legislation

Karthik Palakodeti4 Nov 2023 20:28 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

How To Help Neglected Animals

Bentham's Bulldog13 May 2025 15:05 UTC

64 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

Don’t Eat Honey

Bentham's Bulldog30 Jun 2025 15:40 UTC

38 points

36 comments6 min readEA link

Sentientia, Reversomelas, and the Small Animal Replacement Problem

Jim Buhler15 May 2025 12:29 UTC

46 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

Killing the moths

Bella25 Mar 2024 16:20 UTC

249 points

18 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

97 points

4 comments16 min readEA link

Not stepping on bugs

Yadav28 Aug 2025 15:40 UTC

52 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(y1d2.com)

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

81 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong

MattBall24 Nov 2022 13:36 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.mattball.org)

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

Bentham's Bulldog20 Nov 2024 16:11 UTC

65 points

27 comments33 min readEA link

Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue And What To Do About It

Bentham's Bulldog1 Apr 2025 12:50 UTC

60 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Invertebrate Welfare in Science

Andrew Crump19 Feb 2024 10:54 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Forecasting farmed animal numbers in 2033

Hannah McKay🔸9 May 2025 12:42 UTC

89 points

9 comments9 min readEA link

Society for the Protection of Insects Review

VettedCauses24 Jun 2025 0:07 UTC

−18 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vettedcauses.com)

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

Magnus Vinding28 Sep 2022 8:58 UTC

89 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Published: NYU CMEP and NYU CEAP 2024 Annual Reports

Sofia_Fogel1 Feb 2025 15:28 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Do primitive sentient organisms feel extreme pain? disentangling intensity range and resolution

Wladimir J. Alonso17 May 2025 16:25 UTC

99 points

10 comments11 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)

Should There Be Insect Farming In The UK? (Deadline April 1st)

Gabe The Ape30 Mar 2025 13:33 UTC

70 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Organizations I’m rooting for in 2025

Jakub Stencel30 Dec 2024 21:32 UTC

81 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

Impartialist Sentientism and Existential Anxiety about Moral Circle Explosion

Rafael Ruiz22 Jun 2024 19:53 UTC

92 points

14 comments26 min readEA link

Thinking Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Deal In The World Is Surprisingly Intuitive

Bentham's Bulldog19 May 2025 15:27 UTC

25 points

17 comments7 min readEA link

Insect farming: recent investment trends and growth projections

Sagar K Shah12 Dec 2024 14:12 UTC

88 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

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