
The Bastards That Kill Diabetics for a Profit
Behind the Bastards
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Using Cow Fetuses to Get the Cows Pregnant
The team reached out to Eli Lilly for help figuring out how to produce insulin in large quantities. They could prove that it was a thing that had a therapeutic effect, but they were like, we don't actually know how to produce a medicine for a shitload of people. We're just torturing dogs over here. So they figured out how to extract insulin. Although at some point, there was a horrible note in the story I was reading that they needed the fetuses of young cows to get the pancreas out. And luckily, lots of slaughterhouses get the cows pregnant before they kill them to make them fatter. So there's tons of cow fetuses. Well, that
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