ReviewNeotropical entomology2023
When Do We Start Caring About Insect Welfare?
Review in Neotropical entomology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Identification of Legal Barriers to the Rearing and Processing of Insects in the EU-Implications Based on a Case Study.Insects · 2026Article
- Can cultivated hamster cells compete with chicken meat? Insights on acceptance and digestibility in domestic cats.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Applications and challenges of Drosophila melanogaster as a laboratory model in human cancer research: a narrative review.Discover oncology · 2025Review
- Measuring the effect of RFID and marker recognition tags on cockroach (Blattodea: Blaberidae) behavior using AI-aided tracking.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2025Article
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- A Model for Consumer Acceptance of Insect-Based Dog Foods among Adult UK Dog Owners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Grinding as a slaughter method for farmed black soldier fly (Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
The world is facing an incoming global protein shortage due to existing malnutrition and further rapid increases in population size. It will however be difficult to greatly expand traditional methods of protein production such as cattle, chicken and pig farming, due to space limitations and environmental costs such as deforestation. As a result, alternative sources of protein that require less space and fewer resources, such as insects and other invertebrates, are being sought. The Neotropics are a key area of focus given the widespread prevalence of entomophagy and developing animal welfare regulations. Unlike vertebrate livestock however, insect "minilivestock" are typically not protected by existing animal welfare regulations. This is despite the fact that the evidence is mounting that insects possess "personalities", may experience affective states analogous to emotions and feel something like pain. In this forum article, we highlight this discrepancy, outline some of the emerging research on the topic and identify areas for future research. There are various empirical and ethical questions that must be addressed urgently while insect farming is ramped up around the globe. Finally, we describe the benefits and also potential costs of regulation for insect welfare.
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