And dairy.
And dairy.
You ever worked a dairy?
Well the cows have to be kept continuously pregnant in order to produce milk. So that right there seems pretty bad. But no. Why?
There's no need to keep them pregnant. Only non stop milking. It happens with every mammal. If a woman gives birth and the baby (or the SO or...) doesn't stop exciting the breasts they don't stop giving milk.
So right away you're talking about something you have no experience with, but just condemning it because you've made a few assumptions. Goddamn you vegans expect the entire food chain to be sterile.
This suggests that the ablation caused them pain and distress
I don't think one needs science to tell it is horrid to remove a creature's eye and let it live like that just for higher profits and do this on a mass level (just taking guards against some idotic "yea but what about when they did this medical experiment where they removed a rat's ass" argument). Nevermind the fact that it seems to be generally non-anesthesized.
Go vegan
I'm all for not cutting the eyes off of shrimp for no particularly good reason, but I just want to devil's advocate the argument for the complex internal lives of shrimp used here:
Researchers discovered that when shrimps are subjected to ESA, they try to escape it. They also flick their tails and rub their eye area. When the wounds are covered or medicine is given, the shrimps calm down. This suggests that the ablation caused them pain and distress.
Ants seek to escape the heat of the magnifying glass, flies seek to escape the flyswatter, most plants show signs of stress after being damaged and many plants are capable of sensing and learning, and even single-celled slime molds are capable of learning simple behaviours. This is not evidence of complicated sentience, this is something most non-microbial (and some microbial) life on the planet does.
Shrimp are ocean bugs with such a small number of neurons (less than 1 million) that we would probably be capable of simulating them on a present-day computer. As far as animals go, they're pretty far down the sentience ladder. If you've ever killed a cockroach, that was an animal more complicated than most species of shrimp.
I get what you’re saying but not every person needs to be working on the same cause. Even if we did that, America would be pretty far down the list compared to other places at the moment
But thankfully we do have tons of projects going that are run by people who care a lot about that particular thing and feel engaged in it. Sometimes that’s forest conservation, sometimes that’s renewable energy, sometimes that’s human welfare, this time it’s shrimp welfare. And who knows, maybe this concept with the shrimp will give someone pause and actually motivate them to do some of their own unique good for the world
Straight to jail with them
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200government subsidies
OP, why would you put this in Comic Strips? This is a meme. Probably better in science memes.
All things considered, I think I preferred "This kills the crab".
I don't like this one bit.
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I’m not by any means a PETA person. I’m not sure shrimp are cute enough to qualify anyways, but this seems very barbaric by any standard.
Purposefully traumatizing and mutilating an organism to boost yield. Oh wait, I forgot about the poultry industry.
Never mind.
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