Animal Research Is a Path to Curing Cancer in Humans

There's a whole class of researchers who need to get tenure and animal research is a path that those folks getting tenure. I'm using it as a perfect example of the kind of research that happens not because it's truly important, but just because academics have to be busy. And they've been trained to work in a certain way, and they don't know anything else except by experimenting on animals. We're talking about tens of billions of animals every year. In fact, more than 100 billion if we're including fish farming. This is an enormous problem. It's something to do with the fact that maybe humans evolved with a taste for meat Because that's a very concentrated food source.