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- by Cathryn Wellner
- November 4, 2011
- 11:00 am
Reviewed for humane care: 100%
“Humane care” seems an oxymoron when it is applied to animal experimentation. The photo is above is from 1981. The lab was shut down when severe abuses were revealed. Still, as long as the suffering of animals continues to be justified in the name of science, animals will continue to be subjected to terrible abuse.
In “Is Animal Testing Ever Okay,” Kayla Coleman writes:
I’m not superhuman. I need medicine. And even though I do purposefully buy makeup and body wash and glass cleaner, etc., that hasn’t been tested on animals, nor do they have any animal-derived ingredients in them, I don’t shun medicine because it was tested on animals. I want medical researchers to find cures for cancer, Parkinson’s and even just headaches. But I don’t think animal testing is the best way to do it. In fact, I think to assume animal testing is the only way to accomplish these goals, is to underestimate the power of science and human innovation. I have faith that we’re better than this.
If you can handle it, watch this PETA video and then weigh in on the conversation.
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Frog photo from Muhammad Mahdi Karim via Wikimedia Commons; Rescued lab rats photo from SMercury98 via Flickr Creative Commons; Lizard eye photo from Clicksy via Flickr Creative Commons; Monkey photo from Alex Pacheco of PETA (1981) via Wikimedia Commons
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Cyan isn't here to answer questions she is here to attack liberal thought.
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Looks staged to me......
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+ add your own“All of the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals”.
-Peter Singer
This is the year 2012. We have stem cells now. HUMAN stem cells! Use them, and join the rest of us in the 21st century and leave animals out of our HUMAN health care system!!!
In the 20th century we have less cruel means to conduct testing, don't we? Why keep using medieval torture methods - we don't "tar and feather" anyone anymore either, do we?
i could not watch nor read these,
just sent a message to STOP
I couldn't watch the video either, Jane--just reading about it mad me sick, disgusted and sad.
I think they keep saying "this research will help human quality of life or extend human life" because they seek to justify their own sick, cruel tendencies. I don't want to increase my quality of life or extend my life on the bones of animals who were tortured and murdered.
Very informative but it needs to get out to a wider audience because it's only like minded people that will be reading these articles and watching these videos.
There are several examples of the after-effects of radiation.
No such experiments are necessary !
Do these laboratories just get a kick out of being cruel to justify their existance?
Humans have different physiological characteristics than animals.
Human/man-made models are more effective for the purpose of research than testing on live animals. It's been proven time and time again.
The vast majority of animal research funded is an abject failure; a waste of time, money
and most tragically, lives.
Animals are tortured and abused world wide to keep researchers working and labs operating.
It's all about money; far from being about perpetuating the health and wellness of humanity.
If we truly cared about human health, we would take into consideration the value and the worth of other sentient beings.
Human ignorance, cruelty, arrogance and apathy will be the downfall of the human species.
We cannot continue to destroy other without destroying ourselves. Period.
Animals are not ours to use in research or test on.
UBC must know that ALWAYS is possible a cruelty free alternative to animal research, they should stop excuses and leave all animals alone!
When the human species stops torturing animals they will stop torturing each other. The one is directly related to the other.
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