• coyootje@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Lol I love how it says "considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory rodents. Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?

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      8 days ago

      That’s what it’s called when it’s inhumane to let them live after an experiment.

      Certain rats have incredibly elevated chances of growing tumors, for example. Letting them grow old is basically torture, so…

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      8 days ago

      Yeah, because it’s fast and little pain can be felt before its dead. Guillotines were developed to be a more humane execution for people.

      “Physical methods” (Guillotine, cardiac puncture, thoracotomy, etc) are usually a secondary confirmation of death after lethal ketamine/xylazine cocktail injection, isofluorane, or CO2 inhalation.

      And yeah we’re sacrificing them to the science god to try and make new discoveries and new therapies. We’re also trying to develop ways to avoid using organisms such as organ on a chip or multiple organ on a chip systems but thats expensive af and not yet sufficient quality to replace organism testing.

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      8 days ago

      I instinctively read “considered one of the more humane ways to sacrifice laboratory students

      Who are they sacrificing them to? The great God of science?

      Yes, for mild winters and plentiful harvests

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        7 days ago

        Yes, for mild winters and plentiful harvests

        Bastards, we need harsher winters over here. Otherwise the moskitos and invasive species get even more numerous.