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370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain
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Scientists have found evidence that crickets, which are farmed in vast numbers globally for food, may be capable of feeling pain, challenging previous assumptions about insect sentience and raising questions about welfare in cricket farming.
370 billion crickets are farmed for food every year. Scientists have discovered they may feel pain
House Cricket (_Acheta domesticus_). mani_raab/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC
You’re cooking dinner, distracted, and your hand brushes a hot pan. Nerve signals race to your spinal cord and back to yank your arm away in a fraction of a second, with no thought required.
Then comes the pain. A sharp, spreading sting gives way to a pulsing ache, and you cradle your hand and run it under cold water until it subsides. That felt experience is distinct from the reflex that preceded it. While the reflex moved yo
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