[danieltillett]

Something I have always found insane is all the regulations and paperwork hurdles around killing mice in labs. Want to kill 10 mice humanely in a lab then you need to fill out a 60 page report, send it off to an ethics committee for their opinion, and then wait 3 months. Want to kill a few hundred million mice in the wild with a poison that will result is a slow and painful death - go for it.

[VeninVidiaVicii]

Eh as a PhD student in genetics, the stuff we do to mice is abominable. Researchers give them incurable insufferable cancers to study complex gene interactions. In my first lab, there were even signs on the mouse cages instructing the veterinarians not to administer eye drops even though the eyes were bulging out of their head. These mice are set up for a lifetime of suffering sometimes.

[danieltillett]

I think you should get out and see what farmers are doing to the wild mice.