The dog story bothers me for another reason, outside of cruelty to puppies: the amount of money the US spends researching end-stage conditions that kill people (like sepsis) vs putting that money into well established preventative measures. I beagle puppy is a poor stand-in for most humans I see with sepsis, who have a history of diabete…
The dog story bothers me for another reason, outside of cruelty to puppies: the amount of money the US spends researching end-stage conditions that kill people (like sepsis) vs putting that money into well established preventative measures. I beagle puppy is a poor stand-in for most humans I see with sepsis, who have a history of diabetes, drug use, cancer (with smoking and obesity being the biggest risk factors for cancer), liver failure secondary to alcoholism and fatty liver disease, or coronary artery disease secondary to smoking/diet.
I'm not remotely interested in hearing anyone who cheered for government shutdowns wax on about the cruelty of animal testing, because every time the government shut down, most of the employees at federal research agencies (NIH, CDC) would get furloughed leaving a bare minimum of people to take care of lab animals, and experiments get derailed to the point where all that suffering is for nothing.
The dog story bothers me for another reason, outside of cruelty to puppies: the amount of money the US spends researching end-stage conditions that kill people (like sepsis) vs putting that money into well established preventative measures. I beagle puppy is a poor stand-in for most humans I see with sepsis, who have a history of diabetes, drug use, cancer (with smoking and obesity being the biggest risk factors for cancer), liver failure secondary to alcoholism and fatty liver disease, or coronary artery disease secondary to smoking/diet.
I'm not remotely interested in hearing anyone who cheered for government shutdowns wax on about the cruelty of animal testing, because every time the government shut down, most of the employees at federal research agencies (NIH, CDC) would get furloughed leaving a bare minimum of people to take care of lab animals, and experiments get derailed to the point where all that suffering is for nothing.
Now where can I get a beagle?