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I'm guessing y'all didn't know about this then
from https://www.npr.org/2023/06/10/1180761446/coastal-biomedical-labs-are-bleeding-more-horseshoe-crabs-with-little-accountabi
I did and it's pretty fucking sickening to me.
I hope you took the covid vaccine anyway
I did, I recognize the benefits outweigh the atrocities by a ton, but it's also still nightmarishly evil to have living creatures all chained up and drained of their blood.
:(
I didn't know about this, and I thank you for sharing it.
I go to a weekly philosophy discussion group, and in a few weeks, a friend is running a session on the ethics of animal research. She is doing a PhD and recently did the animal handling training course because her research will involve mice, and she really enjoyed the seminar that covered the legal and ethical aspects of animal research — so much so that it inspired her to volunteer to run a session for the philosophy group.
This is depressing to learn about, but might be an interesting case study for that discussion
I'm not reading why they aren't transitioning to the synthetical alternative in the states. One assumes money, but it's also a very convoluted way to produce the stuff, so I'm curious why this is still the cheaper procedure.
It must be very tough to produce synthetically, but not too hard, as in Europe they are not bleeding crabs anymore. I'm just curious what the margin is that makes the animal abuse worth it.
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