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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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.