Lab rats are locked inside a cage with nothing but food and water holders, they are used for humans to professedly "cure" the world, and I haven't seen any demonstration on this topic.
It seems that people have forgotten about rats, and the only thing they care about is big animals such as cows, pigs or endangered animals.
Rats have always been the scientists' favourite to taste their products on because their organism is the most similar to humans. Scientists claim on their favour that these trials are needed to save human lives, especially nowadays that more and more diseases are appearing.
Even though what scientists claim may be truth, it does not give them the right to conduct an experiment with rats, why? They are unable to give their consent. We don't have to damage, hurt and kill innocent animals in name of science, we are not neanderthals anymore, so this practice should stop.
If we know rats are suffering, shouldn't we do something about it? Sure, but if we do that, we will have to come up with a solution to the dilemma: "It's either animal research or quit trying to find cures for diseases".
The most important thing as Mackarena said at the end is this dilemma that the company make us think that exist "It's either animal research or quit trying to find cures for diseases". But since I agree with Mackaren and I'm interested in the topic I did my own little research about it and it turns out that there are some alternatives to this "dilemma". Some of the alternatives are already being proved in some laboratories, these alternatives include testing in human tissue and studying population and there are examples of going further and studying another important thing "the effect of drugs on human genes" all this without tortuting neiher animals nor human beings.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that alternatives options were taking place. I hope more and more companies and scientific community in general, copy this example and stop hurting innocent animals.
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