Article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9705039
Summary:
The welfare group Animal Aid has launched a campaign to boycott 4 leading medical charities. They are accused of supporting horrific animal experiments. Animal Aid is asking the community to stop donating to Cancer Research UK, the Britisch Heart Foundation, the Alzheimer's Society and Parkinson's UK. Those charities are said to use mice, monkeys, pigs and dogs for experiments. In a reaction, the director of Cancer Research UK says: "Research involving animals remains essential to to understand, prevent and treat cancer. For those experiments, we use maggots, fruit flies, mice and rats only.
Reaction:
I think this has always been an interesting discussion point. Everyone is shocked when they see images of animals in medical experiments and want to take action against that. But on the other hand, when the charities will have to stop doing research to find a medicine against cancer because they can not do tests on animals and there is simply no relyable alternative, the community is mad again. They should look at it from different angles. If those people would kill a fruit fly or a mouse when they found one in their home, they should not say anything if experimenting on those same animals could find us a medicine against cancer!
Dear Eliza!
ReplyDeleteI was reading the article and I already had an opinion about it: BAD, BAD, BAD. But then I read your reaction and you made me see it from a different angle, I think you are right and I like your example. very good!!
I do think it is sad for those animals and I hope they can find another alternative to find a medicane for cancer.
On the other hand I find it ridiculous that these animals should be tested and suffered because of a medicane that menkind needs, why do these animals have to suffer for us? they don't have a choice and they can't stand up for themselves. Why not test on humans? Who says that a human live is worth more than a monkey's life?!
This has to end someday! haha lol, I am going back to my opinion from beofore!(BAD, BAD, BAD) But I do like your statement!
You wrote a very good summary and this is your best reaction yet! you persuaded me for a second there;)
Hi Eliza,
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad news article about experiments on animals. But on the other hand, finding a medicine against cancer is a good thing. But although this is good, I agree with Miranda: why should animals suffer for us? There have to be some other way where both animals as humans don't have to suffer...