The new volume of Mètode analyses our relationship with non-human animals and their welfare. Coordinated by Pau Carazo and Enrique Font, professors of Zoology at the University of Valencia, the monograph brings together specialists in the field of bioethics and animal rights. «We slaughter billions of animals around the world every year for food, clothing, scientific research, and other purposes», say the coordinators. «the available scientific evidence suggests that animals are sentient beings, capable of suffering and feeling pain, which for some should be reason enough to reconsider the way we treat them», they add. The monograph features the collaboration of the artist Pol Coronado, author of the inside dividers.
In issue 124 Mètode, the reader will also find articles and documents on a wide range of topics. The researcher Marina Joubert talks about the treatment of covid-19 in cartoons, and how they can be a good tool to communicate science. We also deal with the problem of microplastics, and how citizen science can contribute to the solution, and we present PLATO, a mission of the European Space Agency that aims to discover and study new exoplanets. In addition, we have a very interesting document proposed by Bernat Lladó, which helps us to understand the evolution of scientific thought based on the figure of the Greek Anaximander.
All of this is accompanied by the usual sections and book reviews, with texts by Xurxo Mariño, Andreu Escrivà, Alma Bracho, Fernando Ballesteros, Esther Samper, JM Mulet, Gemma Marfany, Enric Marco, Josep Lluís Barona, Pau Carazo, Pere Estupinyà, Ricard Guerrero and Mercè Berlanga, Roberto García-Roa, and Ramon Folch.
