Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 18 days agoOntario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier sayswww.cp24.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkOntario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier sayswww.cp24.comSunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squarePlebcouncilman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoNow do rabbits, mice, bats, primates and everything with a brain actually.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoThis comment has a conflict of interest.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoWouldn’t that include the eventual patients as well, for new treatments? Like, there’s strong questions about specism here, but somebody is going to have to go first.
minus-squarePlebcouncilman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoWilling human beings are a better choice than unwilling animals. It’s not just speciesism since I don’t think speciesism is “bad” in the sense that it is inevitable, but rather that it is questionable how much results replicate across species.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days ago it is questionable how much results replicate across species. No, it is not. WTF…you think we should be inducing heart attacks in people and harvesting their organs? Other people, of course.
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoMost people only view cats and dogs of having any value worth protecting, which is terrible. Oh, by the way, Doug’s government also wants to make it illegal for people to know about the cruelty on factory farms.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoDoug brought back the blood sport of penned hunting in 2024.
Now do rabbits, mice, bats, primates and everything with a brain actually.
This comment has a conflict of interest.
Wouldn’t that include the eventual patients as well, for new treatments?
Like, there’s strong questions about specism here, but somebody is going to have to go first.
Willing human beings are a better choice than unwilling animals. It’s not just speciesism since I don’t think speciesism is “bad” in the sense that it is inevitable, but rather that it is questionable how much results replicate across species.
No, it is not. WTF…you think we should be inducing heart attacks in people and harvesting their organs?
Other people, of course.
Most people only view cats and dogs of having any value worth protecting, which is terrible.
Oh, by the way, Doug’s government also wants to make it illegal for people to know about the cruelty on factory farms.
Doug brought back the blood sport of penned hunting in 2024.