Sentience – Politics for Animals

Sentience campaigns to raise awareness in society of the interests of non-human animals. The word ‘sentience’ means the capacity to experience feelings and sensations, especially happiness and suffering. It is not only humans who are capable of feeling these emotions, but non-human animals too. The concept of sentience is fundamental to the moral concept that we can be harmed in a morally relevant sense, thus making it very important from a political perspective.

Our organisation would like to achieve the goal of reducing suffering as effectively as possible and has therefore decided to make particular use of direct democratic means in Switzerland, namely initiatives at communal, cantonal and national level.