Is Animal Testing Really that Bad?
Many times in a given year, one can turn on the television and see a familiar scene: people picketing in protest of animal testing. It is not out of the ordinary to see the pickets turn into riots and become destructive. And for what? To try to stop the advancement of medical knowledge? Yes, it's true that some animals will be hurt, and yes, some will die. The byproduct of this, however, is priceless, as long as it does not come at the expense of meaningless death. In the case of Dr. Edward Taub, the doctor in charge of a monkey lab in Silver Springs, Maryland, we see the evil side of animal testing. His moneys were used in experiments in which their limbs would be removed and various types of stimuli would be applied to see if they could still move. He was found guilty, of having a dirty lab, not of his cruelties to the monkeys and is today a free man. However, his monkeys are still being held in captivity by the NIH. They have said that they do not want the monkeys and two animal sanctuaries have offered to take them away, but still they are in the labs. Another terrible testing project, unrelated to Dr. Taub, is carried out on
As long as animals aren't being hurt and killed recklessly, there shouldn't be such an uproar. Without animal testing, many medicines and treatments we have would be unknown to us. "One of the terrifying effects of the effort to restrict the use of animals in medical research is that the impact will not be felt for years and decades: drugs that might have been discovered wont be, and fundamental biological processes that might have been understood will remain mysteries" (Vesterman 86). I think that is enough of a reason to continue animal testing all in itself. cats. These experiments were funded by the Department of Defense ( eight-years, $2 million) and conducted at Louisiana State University. The cats were put into vices, parts of their skulls were removed, and they were then shot in the head. The experimenters said their purpose is to return brain-wounded soldiers to active duty. Another cat related atrocity occurred at the University of Oregon, where psychologists surgically rotated the eyes of kittens, implanted electrodes in their brains, and forced them to jump onto a block in a pan of water to test their equilibrium. It wa
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