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They do not have proof that freezing is humane and they only have hypotheses about it. They think that freezing small reptiles and amphibians can be humane but larger ones should only have it done along with anesthetic. Currently, they need to be put down by anesthetics to be in line with various animal welfare policies.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/1/53/2641243

That's what I do with my hearing. But as time goes on I forget more and more sounds. I'm wondering how long it will take for me not to just be deaf, but also to not remember what things sound like anymore.

That GM blamed everything on allergies, it seems. Right down the the reptiles needing misting and water soaking areas for shedding. Because allergies don't create a stuck shed in reptiles, poor husbandry does that.

The US is still so behind in serving the needs of people with disabilities. One school district didn't teach a guy to read because he was deaf and they said he couldn't learn, which was a lie.

http://kimatv.com/news/local/grandview-school-district-pays-1-million-settlement-to-deaf-student

Part of the problem is that parents get their kids CIs and then never bother to teach them ASL and don't bother to let them explore or be part of the Deaf community which is a huge fucking problem. When you get a CI, it tends to destroy any remaining hearing you have so when they are off or it doesn't work for you, you now have no hearing.

Besides ASL being important for language acquisition from birth, just like hearing languages, being an isolated non hearing person in a hearing society is fucking hard. It's stressful even when you have great communication skills.

These are just some of the problems when hearing parents get CIs and then ignore those other issues. I was forced to live like a hearing person growing up and it was awful. It created a lot of internalized ableism on top of other issues.

I think that if parents bothered to learn to sign, made sure their kids were fluent in sign and made sure they had early access to the Deaf community that there would be a lot less controversy.