 Here is an extract: "Although we do not know a lot about the mental life of other animals, we do not need to know a lot about it before we can speculate that they have an interest in avoiding pain. Good evidence comes from their behavioural responses to potentially painful situations and from physiological similarities in pain perception mechanisms between humans and non-humans, especially in other mammals."
On 7th October 2007 I participated in an episode of BBC1 show The Big Questions to talk about animal ethics and animal cognition. |