[lapetitejort]

Sounds like the obsession of reinventing trains and trees. Surely training a rat is cheaper than a portable real-time NMR device, right?

[sonofhans]

Rats are sentient beings. If we have a choice, it’s not ethical to risk their lives to meet our own goals.

[lapetitejort]

Before focusing on rats, who are too light to set off mines and live long pampered lives, I would focus on the 73 million pigs and 87 million cows in factory farms [0].

[0]: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...