Dr. Andrew Crump on scientific research into insect sentience

Dr. Andrew Crump is a part-time lecturer in Animal Cognition and Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College in the UK. He specializes in intvertebrate welfare and animal sentience and also works at the London School of Economics as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He has a background in biology and holds a PhD in animal behavior and welfare as well as a degree in the Biological Sciences from Oxford University. Andrew has also done groundbreaking work in securing invertebrates certain protections under animal welfare law and works on insect welfare, a pertinent yet neglected area of animal welfare. In today’s interview we will be discussing scientific research into insect sentience, insect farming, and other research Andrew has conducted.