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I find the article's unwillingness to actually state the obvious - that donkey collagen isn't a magic pill and should stay in donkies - really distressing. How
by peteforde 3y ago
I find the article's unwillingness to actually state the obvious - that donkey collagen isn't a magic pill and should stay in donkies - really distressing.
How could someone write this and not discuss what is being done to get cough People to stop buying it? Does the Chinese government really not have anything to say about it?
I thought that the BBC was better than this.
- tonetegeatinst 3y agoIsn't bioengineering at the point we could just clone the cells and sell them? Seems cheaper to engineer than this....and more ethical
- BeetleB 3y agoAddressing your comment properly with all the nuances would require more time than I have at the moment. The short version: It's a concern, but a distant secondary concern. The issue is the current practice of killing donkeys would be "wrong" even if it had a lot of legitimate medicinal value.
- peteforde 3y agoI am not sure how or if we're actually disagreeing as I did explicitly say that donkey collagen should stay in donkies.
- anon-sre-srm 3y agoJELL-O and most pill capsules are made from animal products too. The BBC failed to inform because I'm still confused if collagen extraction relies on recycling dead animal carcasses rather than actively raising and killing animals for slaughter.