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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Mice are really living in a golden age. They have never been so healthy.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The only downside is the never ending genocide at the hands of scientists

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it still genocide if the ones killing are also reproducing them?

[–] M137@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's kinda worse. Imagine if aliens came here and not just killed us all, but bred us only to be experimented on and then horribly dying with less than 1% living a bit longer and maybe experience some odd things the others didn't. Like a factory where the first machine is making us have children before we get killed then doing the same for our kids ad infinitum.5

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

I do agree that it might be worse, probably worse that meat stock, which is raised to die. At least they aren't tortured.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The mice need a floatilla and a few celebrities to turn on the red carpet and go "Yeah but what about the genocide of mice? -- Chekmate, deuces."

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

And simultaneously unhealthy (otherwise how are we"curing" them)

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uhhh you do know what happens to them at the end of the experiment right?

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They turn into a soup-like homogenate. As is natural in the life cycle of a lab mouse.

And if they weren't euthanized they would almost certainly die of horrible horrible cancerous tumors. Not because of anything the labs do, but because it's a crime against nature for a mouse to live past maybe 2 years.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did they test sildenafil on mice

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Well they did pay for it.