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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There’s something very funny about HRT coming from a literal egg
Eggstrogen
yes, let us become more relient on animal cruelty and enslavement
Who knows, maybe this backfires and conservatives stop eating eggs because they give you the gay.
Backfires? Seems like the ideal outcome
No, that’s IBS, this is HRT we’re talking about
We already are. I admit that I know very little about the topic, but are we not reliant on animal cruelty for: insulin, antivenom, spider silk, and many more where alternatives would be expensive or even non existent? Though I do agree in this case with HRT, because I love injections and I find them relatively cheap. Feel encouraged to correct me.
i’m not super informed on those subjects, but i did not mean to imply that humanity is not currently relying on animal cruelty. my point is just that we should not increase that relience. i think we should really do everything we can to minimize it (short of killing/starving ourselves)
chicken eggs are useful in producing weakened viruses, not antibodies, thats very different, they usually use other animals like horses, rabbits for anti-venim.
if we can do it in chickens why the fuck wouldnt we do it in some micro organism?
“The cruelty is the point”
In hierarchical society higher power and status creates more externalized suffering, so the creation of externalized suffering gets inversely associated with power, virtue, and validity to justify the structure.
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.
Oh that phase is a meme used for observations institutional social harm, I opened with it because familiarity with that trope is a good foundation for understanding my own observation of hierarchy. I can totally see how if it wasn’t familiar to you it might sound like I’m saying individuals are committing explicit and isolated acts of cruelty for it’s own sake but that’s not what I meant to imply, sorry for the confusion.
Eggs taste better.
Get ready for an estradiol egg contract to show up on Egg Inc. lol
Ironic, for a food that resembles a testicle.
