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Those offended by this, do you see this as worse than how most animals for eating are treated? Essentially, a short time of harsh torture vs years of less harsh
by Semaphor 5y ago
Those offended by this, do you see this as worse than how most animals for eating are treated? Essentially, a short time of harsh torture vs years of less harsh torture. If you do, is one okay because it’s for cheap food and the other is only for science?
I tried to phrase this as non-offending as possible, so please treat this like a serious question.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoIf you read the article, the controversy is because other scientists are arguing there is nothing learned here that is applicable elsewhere. In essence, it’s torture without any purpose or benefit to society. Cruelty in animal farming is bad, but it does serve to feed human populations.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoWell, bullshit aside, how many of us reading this just eat meat because it makes our taste buds feel good? 100% or 99%? That seems even worse than torture for the pursuit of knowledge.
- amelius 5y agoYes, all-you-can-eat restaurants which serve meat should be banned before vivisection.
- type0 5y agoI know plenty of vegans and vegetarians who support the use of experimental animals for medical purposes because they like everyone else use medicines! But sometimes there is a line to be drawn, this "experiment" does a huge disservice to all legitimate research that need support from the public. Even an undergraduate could see that it wouldn't provide anything we didn't already know, it's an engineering showmanship, you don't have to be a professor in reproductive physiology to see that.