IT IS LIKELY that, since the beginnings of human time, people have known animals think, feel, and suffer. In 1789, Jeremy Bentham famously claimed, “The question is not, Can [animals] reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?” Legislation, however, moves slowly. The EU recognised animal sentience only in 1997. … Continue reading Wild lives and broken promises: Why are kangaroos deemed ‘killable’?