Comments on: Radiation Therapy Cures Chicken of Cancer

By: sparge

sparge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:05:35 +0000

...still no cure for cancer.

Oh wait...

By: sw

sw — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:54:37 +0000

i'll save my usual rant about humans in need. i'll simply say that it seems that a lot of people have very different priorities than i do, and those priorities do not include THE COMMON GOOD or their FELLOW MAN.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:32:54 +0000

These people are idiots.

I recognise that this is a pretty unsophisticated argument.

But it is still bang on accurate.

They are idiots.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:08:32 +0000

@DOJ/Christophe: You get full, hopefully.

Seriously, eating a cooked tumor is not going to do anything to you. Think about it, any dead animal cells you eat do not replicate inside your body.

Death effectively cures cancer.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:06:57 +0000

That's a good price. I think I'll head to the vet next time I get a serious ailment.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:55:38 +0000

Hey, it's their money, who am I to judge.

DOJ has a good question though.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:24:22 +0000

Absurd. So many people dying of cancer... whatever. My brother-in-law's parents owned a dairy farm. Whenever they had a female calf, they named it after women they knew. When they had a male calf, they wouldn't name it after any men they knew, because that calf was going to be burgers.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:57:58 +0000

I wonder if anyone in the therapy room thought the patient smelled tasty.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:23:46 +0000

Now, here's an ethical dilemma. Whether it's worse to eat pet chicken, cancerous pet chicken or irradiated cancerous pet chicken.

Mmmmm, chicken. What was the question again?

By: red

red — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:46:16 +0000

A pet is a pet. If the solution still allows for the pet to have a happy and fulfilling life (the definition of which, we'll leave to another debate - assume the best for the moment) then why should we have a problem with this?

I'm actually surprised at how cheap it was. Many people have a set limit for how much they are willing to pay to heal a pet. (Mine is limited to 1k for instance)

This shouldn't be such a huge stretch for people. I bonded with a dog, that woman bonded with a chicken. Others bond with rats, cats or fish.

I'm with Doj on this - the more interesting question here is weather or not a cancerous chicken is edible or not.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:40:20 +0000

what happens if you eat cancerous chicken?

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:08:59 +0000

Thankfully we live in a cancer erradicated world, a fruitfull beyond our wildest imaginings economy which allows this once coveted facility by millons of suffering humans to be offered without remorse to a one in kind, almost extinct bird.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:02:24 +0000

Oy vey. Is this really in the best interest of the animal? I believe in helping keep the animal comfortable in time of sickness but frickin radiation?? They're lucky it didn't fry his little drumstick right off!