Anybody else concerned about the ethics of scrubbing intestines, injecting gas into intestines, then suffocation the mammals to death?
Are animals in these procedures routinely anaesthetised?
Are animals in these procedures routinely anaesthetised?
It is hard to view animal testing as anything else than cruelty to animals. I can only hope that it was there was no other options, and that they indeed got anaesthetised.
(Someone here mentioned experiments in breathing in oxygen-rich perfluorocarbons that used navy recruits. I have seen discussions about how much those consent should actually count considering the power balance and hierarchical culture that exist in the military).
Killing a few mice or cloning a few sheep is barbaric but slaughtering millions of mammals every single day is business as usual.
Obviously as soon as one points that out the cognitive dissonance kicks in and the downvote brigade shows up
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Anima...
Oh, wait.
And it's not just meat, either. Milk, cheese, leather, gelatin, etc. We subject billions of animals to truly nightmarish torture and 99% of us don't ever really stop to consider it.
The dairy industry is arguably the worst of factory farming: all the horrific aspects of the meat industry, but prepended with years of subjugation (forced insemination, illness, etc.)
In the best case, a cow is treated like a pet, which A.) is never the case, and B.) still necessitates taking something from an animal without it's consent. Something that is specifically for it's newborn, as well. That's _always_ gonna be wrong, unless it's a matter of life and death for someone.