I think the worst thing I've ever done was work in a neuroscience lab that experimented on animal subjects. The research output was practically worthless and the protocols were ghastly.
Other birds were used for cytological studies. This required brain slices; birds were obviously killed for this. However. The stain we used would bind to blood, so birds had to be exsanguinated.
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The easiest way to do this was to let the bird's heart pump blood out wholesale, so we'd anaesthetize them then slice open their chest, making sure to sever the aorta. Probably painless, but we would go home and drink in the dark after this procedure.
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Being personally unable to do this is not a reason to support a ban on it. Animal research is vital. I don't think anything but mortal terror could make me kill something with my own hands, but I'll be damned if I stop eating cheeseburgers.
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The worst were cases--I can't remember why--when birds were killed with carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide isn't a bad way to go, because it knocks you out as you suffocate. CO2, you're conscious and gasping for air the whole time. It takes ages and it's hard to watch.
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Anyway, I'm struggling to imagine a moral framework where causing this suffering was justified.
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