cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/44375
Chicken eggs are already used to harvest helpful proteins called antibodies to protect humans from viruses such as influenza. Now, a breakthrough at the University of Missouri could one day lead to chickens that produce other useful medical proteins in their eggs.
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if we can do it in chickens why the fuck wouldnt we do it in some micro organism?
Eggs taste better.
“The cruelty is the point”
In hierarchical society higher power and status creates more externalized suffering, so the creation of externalized suffering gets inversely associated with power, virtue, and validity to justify the structure.
Why would you automatically assume that instead of a valid scientific reason, it’s just that the scientists are comic book villains cackling in their lab and intentionally torturing chickens?
I don’t assume that, or presume that. How did you arrive at that assumption?
Your first sentence, set aside so nobody could miss it, in quotation marks.