Reddit reviews Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

A number of assumptions in your reply make it clear that you do not value the lives of these animals and are only seeking to justify your own behavior. You do not have to eat meat or other animal products to live a healthy productive life, yet you justify animals being tortured “so you can eat”. The bar for an animal being reduced to property that can be tortured and killed for you is not scientific discovery, but your own taste. Similarly, you seem to think it’s okay for an animal to be reduced to entertainment as a companion, to be bred and separated from their family so they delight a human or human family who can decide on a whim whether they want to continue caring for or paying for medical treatment for such an animal. You do not value the life of most non-human animals, and so it is easy to justify using them as fodder for a specific type of scientific progress, even if the same or similar progress could be made more slowly using less exploitive means.

I don’t have time to respond to this as throughly as I would like, but I highly recommend reading Beasts of Burden which does a fantastic job deconstructing many of the moral assumptions in your comment.