Kurzgesagt just spotlighted the horrific screwworm!

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Kurzgesagt just spotlighted the horrific screwworm!

David_R 🔸

1 min readJun 3, 2025

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Vasco Grilo🔸

Thanks for sharing, David! I wish they had also given some consideration to the welfare of the worms. If these have positive lives, I think the decrease in their welfare may be larger than the increase in the welfare of the infected animals.

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MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt made the case here that "it is more important for animal wellbeing that we eradicate the New World screwworm from the wild than it is that we end factory farming tomorrow."