I mean, yeah. The bar for sentience is very low. Sapience is a lot higher of a bar.
People have shown that plants can be sentient after all (they can feel pain at least, IIRC). So it makes sense that almost any multicellular organism above a certain amount of cells would be sentient.Strange thumbnail. The actual title of the article says New Zealand too. Those wacky Pakistani journos!
Okay. So, put them to sleep then boil them. I am not missing out on my water scorpion food.
New Zealander here. I’ve heard nothing of this and it’s been a slow news week.
Also a New Zealander, looks like the “news” site is confusing New Zealand and the UK?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Welfare_(Sentience)_Act_2022
Now that the bird of the century elections are over, I guess it’s hard to get excited about anything else the rest of the year.
BNN - a Fox News AI experiment /s
Not the Onion?
Doing this to any animal—regardless of sentience—is straight fucked up. Nothing says selfish like torturing an animal to death so it tastes better. Make it quick.
Considering how easy it is to kill the lobster before tossing it in, I feel boiling them alive is always unnecessarily cruel.
I thought that was needed to avoid toxins or something.
That’s if you kill the lobsters hours before, generally nowadays it’s considered more humane to kill it just before putting it into the pot.
Excuse me, but it recognizes all of us cephalopods as sentient beings, thank you very much.
Too bad this ‘bnnbreaking.com’ is literally the only source for this story.
Is there a legal definition of sentience?
Dunno about legal, but I’m pretty sure the scientific bar for sentience is pretty low. You basically just have to have senses (e g. hearing, sight, etc) and react to stimuli to be sentient.
Yeah, HN flagged and removed the link.
