An important research related to cancer has been conducted in the last years. Scientists from Queen´s University, one of the UK leading research intensive universities, discovered that there are some proteins in frogs’ skin that can regulate how blood vessels grow. Cancer tumors can grow only to a certain size and then they need blood vessels to keep developing. The frog's skin proteins could prevent tumors to grow; therefore, cancer could be transform from a terminal illness into a chronic one. Trials on mice have shown excellent results so now human clinical trials are set to begin.
Everything is rosy till this point. People may just welcome this good news and be happy, but there is an important part of the news which hasn't been considered yet.
What about mice and frogs? On one hand, mice have been used on trials, which mean keeping the mice on laboratories, under several experiments. On the other hand, the frogs’ skin is crucial on this research. It is also necessary to keep frogs on laboratories and extract secretions from their skins on an unnatural way. Mice and frogs are being used on experiments with the purpose of curing a severe human disease.
There are two very different sides of a coin: Humans’ health versus animals’ rights. Lives saved versus cruelty. Apparently it's hard to find a balance in life and we may want to rethink at the moment of picking a side onn this discussion.
I'm not sure, but the animals' rights are only in activits....or they realy Have right? I realy dont know.
ReplyDeleteFarming animals to help human deseases is something that has to be done. I dont believe that you (people) will react the same way if humans were used