Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute

Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by jolux on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:35AM (#25278076)

I think the argument is that we have derived massive benefits from farming as a species that outweigh the amount of suffering we’ve caused in the process. I’m not sure I agree, but then I do eat meat.

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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#25278590)

Well, their argument is surely either "we benefited from X then, thus we should continue doing X now despite having other options" or it's "animals already do bad things in nature, so why care when we do it despite having other options?"

Neither of which is a very compelling position.

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