Andre Abassi is from UC Law, San Francisco. He currently serves as co-president of the student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund in SF and is working on a campaign to increase legal protections for invertebrates at the federal and state levels having founded the ‘Society for the Protection of Insects’. Here are some of the questions we try to answer: Do insects live net-negative lives? Is there an anthropocentric way to frame insect welfare? How can lessons learned from securing crustaceans legal rights be applied to insects? What does legal protection for insects even look like and how will we be able to secure it?

 By answering questions like these, we aim to understand the causes behind insect suffering in the world and how the law can be used to help improve insect welfare.