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ReviewAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England)2025

Defending and refining the Birch

Bob Fischer, Joe Gottlieb, Alexandra K Schnell, Meghan Barrett

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Review in Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Bob FischerTexas State University, San Marcos, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-393X
Joe GottliebTexas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States.
Alexandra K SchnellCambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Meghan BarrettBiology Department, Indiana University, Indianapolis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1270-4983

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is widely accepted that we ought to avoid taking excessive risks of causing gratuitous suffering. The practical implications of this truism, however, depend on how we understand what counts as an excessive risk. Precautionary frameworks help us decide when a risk exceeds the threshold for action, with the recent Birch

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Animal welfareAnimal Welfare Actethicsinsectsprecautionary principlesentience

Identifiers

PMID40342547
PMCPMC12058431

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