Reduce?

The strategy, published online in mid-July, calls for the government to identify and promote the use of scientifically viable alternatives to chemical testing under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act on vertebrate animals such as cats, dogs, mice and rabbits.

Speciesism. Got it.

However, it wouldn’t affect the use of animals for testing other things like drugs, medical products and food products.

Of course they can’t interfere with the profits of those sacred industries. That would be crazy.

Avoiding animal testing isn’t always possible.

Just don’t torture animals. It’s not difficult. If doing the thing somehow requires experimenting on a non-consenting being, just don’t do the thing.

“If we make this change in Canada, animal testing is going to happen — it’s just going to happen elsewhere,” she said.

I am not impressed. Relying on the state to end oppression is like relying on CEOs to raise wages.

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Nope.

For the longest time, when I would see “AMAB” in someone’s profile anywhere online, I thought that it stood for “All Men Are Bastards.”