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On Animal Consciousness… and Animal Welfare

After plunging so deeply into the mind of the octopus, the following project is likely to shock… The first commercial octopus farm should start operating in 2023 in Las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria. The project arouses the hostility of many NGOs: beyond its ecological impact, it is above all its ethics that … Read more

Uncertainty about the future is the daughter of the welfare state

by Kim Murray

On the occasion of the ENS festival, Professor Philippe Descola explains how the unpredictable “imposes its routine” and how the citizen of modern States “expects them to protect him against uncertainty”. Where nothing is ever certain, where the hazards of ordinary subsistence and health (droughts, floods, epidemics, insect pests) depend on the whims of the … Read more