That's pure horror, I can't imagine being a researcher and doing this!
I get the need for some experiments I deem cruel.
But this is one of those things that seems cruel for the sake of cruelty to me, rather than actually meaningfully advancing science.
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Cognitive dissonance is also conveniently ignoring the deaths of many animals that took place so that your vegetables could be grown and harvested. The deaths of the animals that once lived in the spot where your pretty home sits, etc.
Are you specifically saying that most animal products result in sleep deprivation or similar type of torture, or just that the animal dies?
Animals are meant to be eaten. Seriously, in their natural environments herbivores like cows or pigs never just die of old age, once they get to slow to run away from predators they become their next meal. By eating meat you are basically helping some animal fulfill their destiny ;-)
I’ll be lying awake, thinking about that…