cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/44375
Chicken eggs are already used to harvest helpful proteins called antibodies to protect humans from viruses such as influenza. Now, a breakthrough at the University of Missouri could one day lead to chickens that produce other useful medical proteins in their eggs.
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30 Comments
sidelove@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 137d
There's something very funny about HRT coming from a literal egg
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 34 pts · 137d
If HRT stops being vegan I'm gonna flip My fucking lid.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 136d
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 136d
Depends if you get it the normal way or feast on the raw ovaries of woodland creatures.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 136d
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 135d
I mean, the mental effects of HRT are pretty hard on my knees as it is.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 135d
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 135d
I plead the dick, I mean fifth
WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 136d
Estrogen is made from soybeans or other plants, unsure about progesterone and testosterone. It's possible pills can sometimes be made with lactose or something but the hormones themselves are usually vegan
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 135d
That's cool. I thought that the estrogen in soy was phytoestrogen or something like that, a plant equivalent that doesn't affect animals? Guessing there's some processing step to transform it?
WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 135d
Probably! I don't know much about the process
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 136d
wait so the people calling me soyboy were right?!?!
WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 136d
yes 😔
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 136d
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 136d
For context, it used to be made with pregnant house urine, but using plants is now cheaper and more ethical. Hormone related stuff always seems to start with some animal suffering.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 135d
How do i get my house pregnant? I gotta do my part for the housing shortage!
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 134d
lol, I meant horse, but this made me wonder if maybe the evil and intimidating horse has a reason to hate trans lesbians 🤔
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 136d
riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 137d
yes, let us become more relient on animal cruelty and enslavement
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 136d
Who knows, maybe this backfires and conservatives stop eating eggs because they give you the gay.
Anivia@feddit.org · 6 pts · 136d
Backfires? Seems like the ideal outcome
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 136d
No, that's IBS, this is HRT we're talking about
KernelTale@programming.dev · 1 pts · 136d
We already are. I admit that I know very little about the topic, but are we not reliant on animal cruelty for: insulin, antivenom, spider silk, and many more where alternatives would be expensive or even non existent? Though I do agree in this case with HRT, because I love injections and I find them relatively cheap. Feel encouraged to correct me.
riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 136d
i'm not super informed on those subjects, but i did not mean to imply that humanity is not currently relying on animal cruelty. my point is just that we should not increase that relience. i think we should really do everything we can to minimize it (short of killing/starving ourselves)
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 136d
Eggstrogen
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 136d
if we can do it in chickens why the fuck wouldnt we do it in some micro organism?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 6 pts · 136d
Eggs taste better.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 135d
"The cruelty is the point"
In hierarchical society higher power and status creates more externalized suffering, so the creation of externalized suffering gets inversely associated with power, virtue, and validity to justify the structure.
mlc894@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 134d
Why would you automatically assume that instead of a valid scientific reason, it’s just that the scientists are comic book villains cackling in their lab and intentionally torturing chickens?
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 134d
I don't assume that, or presume that. How did you arrive at that assumption?
mlc894@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
Your first sentence, set aside so nobody could miss it, in quotation marks.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 134d
Oh that phase is a meme used for observations institutional social harm, I opened with it because familiarity with that trope is a good foundation for understanding my own observation of hierarchy. I can totally see how if it wasn't familiar to you it might sound like I'm saying individuals are committing explicit and isolated acts of cruelty for it's own sake but that's not what I meant to imply, sorry for the confusion.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 136d
Get ready for an estradiol egg contract to show up on Egg Inc. lol
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 136d
chicken eggs are useful in producing weakened viruses, not antibodies, thats very different, they usually use other animals like horses, rabbits for anti-venim.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 136d
Ironic, for a food that resembles a testicle.