"Why do we need to prove that pigs feel?" by Aranza Vera-Espinoza and Nancy Harlet Esquivel-Marín

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Vera-Espinoza, Aranza and Esquivel-Marín, Nancy Harlet (2026) Why do we need to prove that pigs feel?. Animal Sentience 38(12)

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nancy_Esquivel-Marin?ev=hdr_xprf

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Jonathan Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

Abstract

Birch's framework manages uncertainty but overlooks the likelihood that citizen panels have speciesist biases that reduce precaution to mere harm-management even in species that undoubtedly feel.

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Author Biography

Aranza Vera-Espinoza, a psychotherapist with a Master's in Gestalt-Humanistic Therapy specializing in trauma. Her work focuses on decolonial studies and the intersections of perception, speciesism, and structural violence.

N. Harlet Esquivel-Marín, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, UNAM, does research on animal exploitation and ethical food systems, supported by Culture Animal Foundation (CAF 2025). Website