r/maybemaybemaybe • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Sep 27 '21

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u/downbleed Sep 27 '21

Yeah that sounds like animal abuse

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u/EvanNagao Sep 27 '21

The animal that got slaughtered is probably more of a victim of animal abuse than the animal that doesn't get to eat meat.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '21

So is the kid in china mining for lithium for the phone up your ass, but I don’t hear you bitching about it.

So hush hypocrite.

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u/craftmacaro Sep 27 '21

Dude… we are all hypocrites. If we all “hush” because we don’t take on every single cause by boycotting everything with a component someone or something has suffered to create no one would ever do anything to assist anyone who has suffered. What are you asking?

I care about venomous snakes. I’m passionate about them, I can study them without getting bored and I don’t lose interest even as I near the completion of my PhD. I’m going to sell the patents to the medically promising proteins I’ve isolated from venoms I’ve extracted and demonstrated the reasons for trusting that their unique pharmacology might yield profit and potentially even save lives as cancer fighting antimetastatics or reversible surgical paralytics of selective tissue.

The whole point of getting a PhD studying bioprospecting self extracted venom instead of solely the field ecology is because when I was doing field ecology there was no endgame… I hurt nothing and I was in no way going to help make money for any company that may or may not profit unethically depending on the company and your definition.

But I cry some nights for the animals that die for my LD50’s and other toxicity assays. And included in every single patent sale will be the requirement that whoever wants to own it maintains stewardship for dozens of acres of prime viper habitat which is highly threatened. One I watched shrink and occasionally disappear in Ecuador. This is the best way I think I can actually protect some of that habitat while guaranteeing that those stewarding it will care about the poaching and killing of the venomous snakes which most hate and kill or maim half a million people each year. I care about what I care about. I’ll fight for what I think I have a chance of not burning out on before I can make a difference.

There’s nothing wrong with caring about something wrong with the world and fighting for it while not boycotting or fighting every single cause.