Animal welfare science and moral theory: social relational framework of empathetic accountability and welfare-aligned sentience

• Main Author: Leo, Celine
• Other Authors: Christina Chuang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165467
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Animal cruelty in agricultural and commercial industries has steadily continued, despite the development of laws that recognise their capacity for such suffering and in extension, other various components of sentience. Animal sentience generally refers to animals’ capacity for consciousness and cogn...