{"id":139840,"date":"2022-05-26T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/united-kingdom-declares-octopuses-squids-are-sentient-beings"},"modified":"2022-05-26T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:03:23","slug":"united-kingdom-declares-octopuses-squids-are-sentient-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/united-kingdom-declares-octopuses-squids-are-sentient-beings","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom Declares Octopuses, Squids Are Sentient Beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/united-kingdom-declares-octopuses-squids-are-sentient-beings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The United Kingdom has confirmed what everybody who ugly cried during \u201cMy Octopus Teacher\u201d already knew: Octopuses are sentient \u2014 capable, that is, of perceiving things like pain and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>The country is adding an amendment to its Animal Welfare Sentience Bill to recognize creatures such as octopus, crabs, squids, and lobsters along with \u201call other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs\u201d as sentient creatures, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings\" class=\"\"> a press release<\/a> from the UK Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs. The bill aims to ensure animal sentience is taken into account when developing government policy, and as such could inform debates around animal rights and dietary choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe science is now clear that decapods and cephalopods can feel pain and therefore it is only right they are covered by this vital piece of legislation,\u201d Animal Welfare Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 The United Kingdom has confirmed what everybody who ugly cried during \u201cMy Octopus Teacher\u201d already knew: Octopuses are sentient \u2014 capable, that is, of perceiving things like pain and pleasure. The country is adding an amendment to its Animal Welfare Sentience Bill to recognize creatures such as octopus, crabs, squids, and lobsters along with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1490,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}