I loved reading about Barrett’s rigorous empirical research on insect sentience, its ethical implications, and how to mitigate insect suffering within industries that make heavy use of these remarkable invertebrates!

(https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/meghan-barrett-insec…sentience/)

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This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our science curriculum; they are especially poorly understood, because people don’t spend as much time learning about them at museums; and they’re just harder to spend time with in a lot of ways, I think, for people.