https://www.vice.com/en/article/science-researcher-mental-health-animal-killing/
May 7, 2021, 2:38am
Briana figures she’s probably killed more than 300,000 animals throughout her career. Most of them mice. The occasional rat. Sometimes a hamster. At the biomedical research facility where she used to work, at a university in the United Kingdom, the method of execution wasn’t always the same. Some test subjects were killed by an overdose of anaesthetics, others by a rising concentration of carbon dioxide that was slowly pumped into a sealed enclosure.
But the most common technique was something called cervical dislocation. Ten times a day, on average, for more than 10 years, Briana’s job involved taking a mouse by the tail in one hand, pinching its neck with the other, and yanking hard to dislocate its vertebrae.
“The last week before Christmas was always the worst; I’d spend an entire day just breaking necks,” she tells VICE World News over email. “Having to kill so many animals and be part of their suffering left me feeling like there wasn’t much point in my existence.”
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World Animals Voice 
I agree with this statement and have zero empathy for the killers, they have a choice, the animals do not: “So there might be a concern that by focusing on what may be a smaller harm (the researchers’ welfare), you are neglecting or diminishing the more salient one (the animal’s welfare).” I also have a huge problem with Darwin’s “greatest good/greatest number” rationalization: if a person cannot care enough for even ONE of the victims to NOT cause the victim harm, then I have difficulty understanding how they can care about MANY, and people who exploit this rationalization conveniently forget that humans are not the victims: not supporting vivisection is not the same as supporting human suffering from diseases, etc., because vivisection is a sham anyway, a profit churning death industry like a slaughterhouse. One hundred million animals are butchered each year in the US for vivisection, the vast majority of whom – 95% – are not granted even marginal coverage under the Animal Welfare Act (which is meaningless anyway considering dogs, for example, are given AWA “coverage” but are still forced to experience pain with no pain relief when the researcher determines that pain relief will alter results). I’m not a rat or a dog or a cat, it’s disgusting how easily anthropomorphic people pretend they are to justify violence against animals while then saying that being human separates and elevates humans to a more important status to justify violence against nonhuman animals. In other words, if animals are biologically similar enough to humans to validate experimenting on them, then they are similar enough to humans to make experimenting on them UNethical.
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Great comment, Stacey. Thanks very much! Di.
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And thank you so much for posting, Di.
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