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Multiple independent lines of evidence strongly suggest insects experience emotions not unlike vertebrates’(!) Many staggering implications, including moral ones.

Quoth the authors:

“To live, to eat, we almost inevitably kill other living things [...] to the extent that the affected creatures are probably sentient, we have a moral obligation to minimize their suffering—whether in research labs, on feed-and-food farms, or in agricultural settings.”