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It's not so much that scientific experimentation isn't justifiable, it's just that the sheer scale of suffering involved in it is staggering. Scientific experi
by Pxtl 3y ago
It's not so much that scientific experimentation isn't justifiable, it's just that the sheer scale of suffering involved in it is staggering. Scientific experimentation requires basically a near-constant holocaust of rodents. The animals aren't even raw materials, they're basically stationery.
This is an excellent article on the subject, written by somebody who worked in a testing lab.
https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1676-5-horrifying-realities-testing-drugs-lab-animals.html https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1676-5-horrifyi...
- ethbr0 3y agoIt is staggering. But we spend worm lives so that we can spare fly lives. And we spend fly lives so that we can spare rodent lives. And we spend rodent lives so that we can spare rabbit lives. And we spend rabbit lives so that we can spare pig lives. And we spend pig lives so that we can spare primate lives. And we spend primate lives so that we can spare human lives. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rs_(animal_research) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rs_(animal_research) The only thing worse than deliberately infecting or genetically engineering animal models... is allowing disease to rampage unsolved, when you might have done something. The world we live in is built on a mountain of rodent skulls, and while I'm uncomfortable with that, I'm more comfortable than if it were built atop a mountain of human skulls.