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Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by interestica on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:18PM (#26039439)
Do they still use horse parts for the glue that keeps the boxes shut?
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by masklinn on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:37PM (#26039668)
Hopefully, what else are you going to do with hooves and bones otherwise, throw them away? That's wasteful!

(in reality there's almost no chance, synthetic glues are way easier to manufacture and manage, outside of gelatin animal glues would near-only be used for restoration or specialty applications e.g. some lutherie and other speciality woodworking)

Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#26043392)
'Terra Preta'
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by brailsafe on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:31PM (#26039604)
I hope so, horses are terrifying.
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by scythe on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:45PM (#26039757)
You know, it's kind of funny. Horses might have a better argument than any other animal for being the natural predator of humans. Specifically, nomadic depredations on preindustrial societies comprised armies with a proportionally small number of humans and a large number of horses pillaging towns and cities full of horseless humans. In 13th-century Asia, the average horse probably had a better life than the average human. The same thing happened shortly after the horse was (re)introduced to North America in the sixteenth century; settled agricultural societies were quickly overrun by horse-riding nomads.
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by legerdemain on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:10PM (#26040621)
No, but there are plenty of horse parts in red wine.
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by djrogers on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:24PM (#26040736)
Not sure where you're from, but at least for American-made wines that's not often the case, as there are many more common and/or cheaper sources for chitin, casein, gelatin, etc. (pig and cow, as well as egg based sources for example). Also, blood-based fining agents have been outlawed in the US and Europe since the mid 90s thanks to the mad-cow scare.

Of course this conversation also ignores the fact that fining agents are removed from wine before bottling as part of their purpose - they bind with the crap you don't want in your wine. Typical store-bought wine will have no detectable amount of a fining agent in it.

Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by legerdemain on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:27PM (#26042006)
It's contamination "by association." I don't think it's debatable that fewer people would drink wine with pleasure if I told them it was filtered through human bone char, even if I didn't include any in the bottle.
Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by worker767424 on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:22PM (#26040721)
It's more common in white wine.