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“Recognizing sentience (as Quebec plans to do) acknowledges that abilities to feel pleasure and pain are widespread, even in those group of animals who have not been very well protected as yet. That is to be welcomed.”
The sentient debate: Animal legal rights at centre of recent court cases

The sentient debate: Animal legal rights at centre of recent court casesTuesday, lawmakers wrestled with a question that could shake the legal framework of interactions between man and beast: should animals be legally recognized as sentient?