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Today’s video:

Eating insects instead of conventionally farmed animals is being touted as the future of food, with headlines such as 'If we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects" hitting the news recently. So today I take a look at the environmental and ethical arguments behind the proposed solution of eating insects.

In truth, the ethics of what we do to insects comes down to the insects’ capacity to suffer and experience subjectively, in essence, their sentience. With the available knowledge that we have now on animal sentience, we might take the position that eating insects is morally preferable because they are less sentient than animals such as pigs, cows, chickens, fish and the animals we conventionally consume but this argument misses the point.

The question isn’t ‘are they as sentient as other farmed animals’ but rather ‘are they sentient in a morally relevant way’? If we choose to ignore what is already being suggested about the consciousness of insects we may one day, in the same way that we have with other nonhuman animals, realise that their capacities exceed what we once thought.

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