 Ethical theorizing regarding animals focuses on two main issues: the question of moral status and the question of moral treatment. The discussion on moral status attempts to establish which animals are owed moral consideration and on what grounds. The discussion on moral treatment starts from the assumption that some animals have moral status and aims to elucidate what the interests of these animals are and how to manage situations in which they conflict with our own. Discussions in both of these debates are often informed by comparative cognition research.