by Tolui » Tue May 24, 2011 1:54 am
I think it is completely wrong using animals as tests when they can still feel it. If someone was abusing an animal, they could be locked up for years, and I see no reason why it is different when it is for human gain.
As many people have been saying here, animals have feelings. Bacteria is not thought to have feelings or emotions, and so using ani-bacterial handwash would not be considered murder, just like chopping down a tree would nto be considered murder.
I beleive that tests should only be done on animals if they are under anaethsetic or if they are dying anyways. And the 'the animals are near the end of their lives' is nonsense, after all, in comparison to the Giant Tortoise our lives are short.
During World War Two the Japanese and Germans did tests on humans, and they were sentenced for many years in prison and called War Crimminals. As humans (who are apparently the more civillised and intelligent beings) we should have learnt from this that it is completely barbaric to do tests on any living thing with feelings and nerves.
Humans are just anouther part of this world, and they have absolutely no right to use animals as if they were just a resource that we can do what we want with. They are not lesser beings, and we need to learn to treat this world, and all the feeling inhabitants of it with respect.
As for many of the illnesses and injuries that are researched and tested on these animals, most of them are brought upon by the lifestyles humans live nowadays. Spinal injuries from car crashes? They are not natural, they are caused by humans. Depression? That is caused by selfishness (usualy not from the sufferer). Many terminal and mental illnesses (I believe) are caused by the sort of foods and chemicals we consume in our modern lives.
For example: The Inuit of the Arctic Circle once had the lowest suicide rate in the whole world before they were 'modernised'. They once lived lives where every person had a place and a part to play. They lived as a team and each person was vital for the survival of their village. They led simple lives where everything was for survival. Then the 'civilised' people came and changed them. Many of them were converted into Christianity. The 'civilised' people mined for resouces in the Arctic, and many of the Inuit came to work for them. Now, many of them are unemployed, drink large amounts, suffer from depression and abuse. The westeners imposed laws saying that they could only kill certain amounts of animals in the Arctic, animals which were the Inuit's livelyhood. Since their modernisation, the Inuit now suffer from the highest suicide rate in the world. That is what our modern life does to us.
We have dug ourselves into a hole and dragged others down into it with us, and I strongly believe that we should climb out of this hole on our own, and not just lie there, pulling the rest of the world, which has kept its valued sanity, down into the depths.
A quick note too, jellyfish do have feelings, it has been researched, they have many eyes and brains too, which people origionaly thought they did not have.
In addition, I am not too sure of the intelligence of humans. Sure, we invented the motor engine, the internet, the television, submarines, we discovered what makes a rainbow, why some metals move towards each other and how far away the stars are, we stood on the moon, we can go to the bottom of the ocean. But are we truly content?
BACK FROM THE JUNGLE!
"It is man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him into evil ways" ~ Buddah
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
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