I was just wondering...how much rights do we have when it comes to afflicting pain in other animals just to preserve the mankind?
Sigh... Being a life sciences student and an animal lover at the same time is just plain... SAD. Disturbing. Whatever.
Do we have the rights to inflict such pain on these animals just to find a cure to disease? I know that some may think that it is such a small price to pay when it comes to these animals, in return for like a cure to, say, cancer. Some think that in order to find the cure, sacrifices have to be made. Inevitable, they say.
But don't you think that we humans are the ones who are the cause for these diseases? It is through urbanisation and environmental factors and god knows what humans can do that put onto mankind what we have today. And then, the poor animals have got to suffer in search of the cure. Is that right seriously?
Can't guess what it is? That's the poor mouse's uterus. That needle there is to transplant a mutated "baby" into this mouse, now acting as the foster mom. If the mouse gave birth to a mutated baby, and the mutated baby has the mutation the scientists wanted.... then GOOD. The mouse and the mutated baby have served its purpose.
I don't know, really. It is unavoidable, I think, to use all these pitiful animals as model organisms for disease study but then again.....
SIGH.
2 comments:
Very disturbing indeed.... however, it is in my opinion that the diseases which are deemed as bad by humans should be deemed as a form of a feedback mechanism to control our population and thus provide a certain degree of balance which helps sustain our environment...... LET HUMANS DIE!!! ahah..... sounds radical but when you look at the big picture.... its really for the best.... regardless of how inhuman that might sound.... speaking of which.... why is there no such thing as "inanmial"??? after all... humans are nothing much highly sophisticated animals... *just some food for thought*
However much we'd like to think logically as a feedback mechanism to control population, it is inevitably difficult to say so when u lose a loved one due to diseases..You KNOW it's a feedback mechanism but yet, if there is a way to keep a loved one...would you not do it? Yes, we cant help but to be selfish...=)
inanimal??? well...then the "body" system would be different from humans, thus responding diiferently to certain drugs. I think it would be cool if the software engineers can come up with a body system...a detailed one..so when u put in a specific chemical, you can actually see the reactions of different cells. but then again, each individual is different and there is no 100% success, what more with the everchanging human body.
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