Cut up and leased out, the bodies of the poor suffer a final indignity in Texas
Cut up and leased out, the bodies of the poor suffer a final indignity in Texas
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.
This may be a controversial post because it strays from the exploitation of non-human animals, but this is a story about human bodies being sold and used without their prior consent, which to me speaks to a similar (albeit more severe) indignity that non-human animals face in the medical industry. That is to say "this isn't vegan". Feel free to downvote this post heavily and say as much in the comments if you feel this isn't on-topic for this community, as I know there are plenty of other places that will address this with an appropriate level of appallment.
We eating people now?
To be honest, yes this should be forbidden, but active consent is often rare.
And to be fair, these people are already dead. So I would say it is vegan, as this is not their purpose, they were not bred, not held and are also not eaten but used for education, research and helping living humans.
Idk I dont find this that crazy? Even though family members should of course be able to claim the bodies, and yeah it is kinda sick to scratch corpses of poor people off the street and look at them only when they are dead.
That context makes it more fucked up.
it's exploitation of an animal. what definition are you using that makes this vegan?
If using a dead body for these purposes is exploitation or not is a philisophical or even religious/spiritual/belief question.
As far as we know, if an animal dies, the corpse doesnt feel, experience or live anymore.
As these animals (people) didnt die because of this, it is not exploitation, I would say.