# Animal Feelings Could Change How We Treat Animals by April Gornik > “There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research, and our general interaction with them.” > **— April Gornik**, *2009 Edge Annual Question, response passage* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and locator:** [ANIMAL FEELINGS — April Gornik](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10973) — 2009 Annual Question response, contiguous sentence(s) within the representative extract. - **Exact original excerpt:** “There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research, and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live, and preserve the planet. We will eliminate the archaic tendency to base their treatment on an equation of their intelligence with ours. The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.” - **Context and editing:** Gornik identifies a growing consensus about animal emotions and pain, then predicts changes in treatment. The poster preserves her future-facing wording and is not presented as a new experimental finding by Gornik. No editorial words were inserted. - **Local Edge archive:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]], response EDGE2009-063. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Sentience|Sentience]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Sentience|Sentience]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research, and our general interaction with them.” — April Gornik, 2009 Edge Annual Question, response passage https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-april-gornik-animal-feelings-change-treat-animals ```