Evander 📈🇺🇸🇺🇦

President Zelenskyy wipes tears from his eyes as President Biden meets with Ukrainians in Kyiv. So proud of our president for making this courageous and dangerous trip.

In 2023, Chinese researchers set out to create a 'pig depression model' — a way to reliably induce depression in pigs for medical research. The researchers (Yang et al, 2023) confined pigs so tightly they couldn't move and left them in a dark environment without food or water for 24 hours. It worked: the pigs exhibited anhedonia — an inability to experience pleasure — along with anxiety and reduced appetite. The researchers concluded they'd found a promising way to induce depression in pigs. Their inspiration? Factory farms. They tried out the total restraint after noting that sows, confined in gestation crates and kept chronically hunger, "have been found to be in a depression-like state." The main difference? After 24 hours, the researchers let the study pigs out. On factory farms they never do. Photo: Balvik C. / We Animals

I meant the elites and politicians that are leading us into these wars might make different choices if it was their children. It was hard for me to be angry and talk at the same time. I am thankful for to our troops who serve and are far braver than me. And also wtf do i know.

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