{"id":131018,"date":"2021-11-21T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-to-be-recognised-as-sentient-beings-under-uk-law-following-lse-report-findings"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:22:45","slug":"octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-to-be-recognised-as-sentient-beings-under-uk-law-following-lse-report-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-to-be-recognised-as-sentient-beings-under-uk-law-following-lse-report-findings","title":{"rendered":"Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following LSE report findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-to-be-recognised-as-sentient-beings-under-uk-law-following-lse-report-findings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection in UK law following an <a title=\"Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans_Final Report_November 2021\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/News\/News-Assets\/PDFs\/2021\/Sentience-in-Cephalopod-Molluscs-and-Decapod-Crustaceans-Final-Report-November-2021.pdf\" class=\"\">LSE report<\/a> which demonstrates that there is strong scientific evidence that these animals have the capacity to experience pain, distress or harm.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has <a title=\"Government recognise lobsters, octopuses and crabs sentient\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_source=994c7ffd-9c00-4347-9563-bc9a0754ecad&utm_content=immediately\">today confirmed<\/a> that that the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill will be extended to all decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs.<\/p>\n<p>This move follows the findings of a government-commissioned independent review led by Dr Jonathan Birch. The review drew on over 300 existing scientific studies to evaluate evidence of sentience in cephalopods (including octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) and decapods (including crabs, lobsters and crayfish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection in UK law following an LSE report which demonstrates that there is strong scientific evidence that these animals have the capacity to experience pain, distress or harm. The UK government has today confirmed that that the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill will be extended [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}