Re:Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
by kj98uo on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:54AM
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That's like saying humans have been enslaving (among other things. this is just one example) other humans since the dawn of civilization and on a large scale, that didn't stop the growth of art, culture, science etc.
But our ethics progress and evolve. Similarly, treating other species as commodities for our consumption has been done for millennia but it doesn't mean we should keep doing it.
Re:Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
by Glavnokoman on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:05AM
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OK. We'll be only left with food animals and even those will be replaced soon with some salad cause the popular opinion it that this is more effective. I believe this is going to be a sad place and we are getting there quite fast now, cause for centuries the population was much smaller. And yet humans managed to depopulate vast areas.
This is illogical.
Humans have been eating animals since the dawn of civilization. We've been using animals in experiments for centuries.
There are still animals to eat and use in experiments. Why? because animals reproduce. There aren't a fixed number of animals.
We only lose species when we kill faster then they reproduce. For experiments and food, that's an impossibility. We bread to accommodate demand.