disenhancement

Noun

disenhancement (plural disenhancements)

1. A genetic modification of an organism that removes a capability such as sight or the capacity to feel pain.
   • It seems clear that taking away horns can count as a disenhancement in the parasite environment, since the change would result in decreased welfare, but not in the parasite-free environment, since the change would be welfare-neutral.2021 April 29, Bernice Bovenkerk, Jozef Keulartz, Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene, page 540
   • Some suggest that disenhancement is relative to the capacities an organism "ought" to have, where that notion could be cashed out in different ways (e.g. the "normal" capacities of a member of a species).2020 March 6, Adam Shriver, Andrew Fenton, L. Syd M Johnson, editors, Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals, Springer International Publishing, page 136