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And yet, over time, humanity has trended to respecting the life of all sentient creatures. It seems like in the limit, especially if scarcity of resources is el
by gfodor 7y ago
And yet, over time, humanity has trended to respecting the life of all sentient creatures. It seems like in the limit, especially if scarcity of resources is eliminated, all life will be precious and valued.
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- perl4ever 7y agoI just googled for how many lab animals are used in reseach in the US, and the number was ~800K in 2017. But (and this is a big but) rats and mice (and birds and fish) are not counted. For some reason, guinea pigs and hamsters are considered more equal than rats and mice. One supplier of lab mice in Maine provides ~3 million mice per year... Yearly production (and slaughter) of chickens is something like 60+ billion. Not sure if sentient, but perhaps they deserve it as descendants of the dinosaurs that terrorized human ancestors...