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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“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.