Animal sentience in the moral maze

Animals should be treated humanely, but is there an agenda to devalue humanity?

Michael Buerk, in the chair on the Moral Maze

(Apologies to those who received an earlier version of this post)

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, my co-panellists and I discussed animal sentience. A bill on that topic currently working its way through parliament would provide the first formal recognition in law that animals can experience feelings, in…