292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

4317.01 - 4338.541 Jonathan Birch

Yeah, there's a tendency sometimes for people to say, maybe we'll never know. But if you say, but maybe we'll never know, that can't be a license to do whatever you want. It can't be a license to drop the crabs into pans of boiling water and so on. There's got to be sensible precautionary steps we can agree on in the face of uncertainty. And the book is about trying to find these.