As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1789, when asking about the moral status of animals: "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Mira leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I don't know about rights," he said finally, his voice thick. "But I know they have a life. And a life isn't a thing. It's a story. And you don't get to end someone else's story just because you forgot they had one." As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote in 1789,
Nowhere is this divide more visible than on our dinner plates. "I don't know about rights," he said finally,
Imagine a hen used for egg production.
The bridge between these two schools of thought is . Modern science has proven that many animals—not just mammals, but birds, cephalopods (like octopuses), and even some insects—possess the capacity to feel pain, joy, and boredom. It's a story