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No, no, no, no. Ma'am, we are not linking our dogs to the internet of things.

Feels like she's looking to the wrong category of science for a solution here. But we don't really have the time to dig into how consistently we ignore calls to combat climate change

Ah. Shockingly she does actually mention that. I am so used to her deliberately missing the point I jumped the gun

I think we also have to ask whether that would actually make their lives better, a point that he dodges here.

Ma'am that is not why people dislike Alan Blake. If anything while I am still not exactly pro this, it is more justifiable than GloFish. She loves flattening the differences in the ethical issues

Once again let's just glaze over the ethical question for a smidge longer

The footnote about the UK is useful I think. In the US that might be normal, but it is fucked up. So like maybe do neither.

This seems like too much thought about dogs' balls. Are men okay?

This sure feels like someone was projecting a little too much

I know it's nitpicky but I don't love the use of the word "fix" here

Okay but this. This I would be interested to see criticisms of. Because I think there probably are some.

Benson makes an interesting point about how much we are tracking. How much is our deaire to have control over everything impacting our study methods

Yes these are some valuable points from David Ehrenfeld

Yeah. That was the wrong conclusion to draw. But she did buy her dog from a breeder she wasn't going to draw the right conclusion.

Ma'am, with all due respect that is not the fucking issue. Ugh. She really doesn't understand medical testing vs pet optimizing or whatever the fuck you want to call it.

Once again opting for the most absurd interpretation of the ethical issue so she can brush off the fear of "an army full of Hitlers" and ignore the concerns of where the line between replicating dead pets and dead human loved ones falls

I am having a hard time because I find the idea of cloning a pet so you have a replacement after death deeply fucked up. This one's for the therapists not the scientific researchers.

It's the way she thinks a cat that "glows while resting" and a cow that could actually provide medical benefits are the same issue.

Slightly more confident in her handling of the topic in this chapter, but we shall see how it goes.

I feel like she's not giving criticisms appropriate weight now that she's in the actual important and useful studies. But maybe her starting with pets has just led me not to trust her.

I think she and Blake have both deliberately ignored a key part of the argument against but okay then. She did buy a dog from a breeder so I did already have opinions...

Ma'am, some countries do actually have laws against breeding for unhealthy traits in pets. I suspect the author and I are going to disagree quite a lot on the ethics of what she is covering in her book.