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mad scientist ethics board that makes sure that a project is sufficiently unethical before providing funding

sometimes you get a normal scientist trying to apply with a regular invention that just has a puppy shredder attached to it with hot glue or sticky tape

teslacoils-and-hubris

you’d think they’d be disqualified for that, but trying to cheat the system to get research funding actually adds a lot of unethical points

s-nnoh

herpsandbirds

Almost all types of Ensatina (yellow eyed and Oregon‘s excluded due to photo limit and I also have none of Oregons because none of my photos of them turned out passable 😖😖😖)

In order:

Large blotch ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi ) ,

Sierra Nevada ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis) ,

Yellow blotched ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii croceater) ,

Monterey Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii eschscholtzii) (one of which is from the arid temblor mountains (the pale one)) and,

Painted ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii picta) (I have pictures of a yellow-ish one I was just to lazy to get it from my camera to my phone) .

Not pictured:

Yellow eyed ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica) (just imagine the first Monterey with the eyes of the painted one and a redder toned back) and,

Oregon ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis) (Imagine the first Monterey with a solid dark brown top, pale belly, and yellow on the bottom/side of tail)

asfodeltide

#friends

dr-eurydice

Hanging this on my wall like its an inspirational poster.

alienorchids

廃人黒薔薇族, ちびLAZY, & Fictive Eye's 'CHRISTMAS EVEx2 1995.12.23' sticker, 1995

calder

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

calder

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

blackwashedmax

Honey is literally murder but go off

kasaron

Prove it.

blackwashedmax

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

kasaron

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

blackwashedmax

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

hematite2

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

leonardo-nierman

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

gemstone-gynoid

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom.

darkenedyeastextract

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

demonius-darkblade

bee carnival

yeah-yeah-beebiss-1

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

bastlynn

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.