Pig Welfare and Sentience

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Sentience:

World Animal Protection How Smart are Pigs? Pigs are extraordinary animals with remarkable cognitive abilities. Recognizing and spreading awareness of their intelligence can lead to more compassionate and respectful treatment of these amazing animals.

World Animal Protection Do you think that I’m thinking? Science has proven that pigs are social creatures with intricate minds, shining brightly as some of Earth’s most intelligent beings.

Psychology Today Pigs Are Intelligent, Emotional, and Cognitively Complex

Sentient Science Pigs Are Intelligent and Clean Animals, Actually. Pigs suffer a bad reputation — but science shows they are smart, caring and even clean.

Compassion in World Farming Pig Sentience PDF

The Someone Project THINKING PIGS: Cognition, Emotion, and Personality

The conditions for pigs in factory farming are horrific, but it’s important that you understand what they go through for the production of food. Before reading about that, let’s start with some happier reels of rescued pigs. But this is not the fate of millions of other pigs.

WPI Studies Repository – Thinking Pigs: Cognition, Emotion, and Personality. Pigs are active and intelligent participants in their worlds in much the same way as other cognitively complex animals.

Pigs suffer a bad reputation, but science shows they are smart, caring and even clean.