Product safety tests, pain analysis, psychological investigations,
drug testing and even warfare research. These are just a few of the repulsive procedures
that millions of innocent, trusting creatures are put through every day.
Maiming, shooting, irradiating, electric shocking and poisoning are only a
handful of the types of barbaric actions mankind is imposing on animals in
modern society- things I wouldn’t even wish upon my worst enemy. So why would
anybody be so callous and merciless as to put another living creature through
such a process? The answer is simple: because we can. Since the beginning of
time, man has exercised his ruthless power over weaker beings. “Man is
the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk,
he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast
enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
~George Orwell, Animal Farm. How is it
that with modern technology as accurate and efficient as ours, we still resort
to such disgusting levels as common mutilation? Animals are taken from their
habitats and their mothers; some are even bred in captivity never to see the
outside of a cage. They are deliberately driven mad, induced into epileptic
fits, even dropped in water and forced to swim to stay alive- just so a few
scientists can examine some stress levels. If humans are supposed to be the
most evolved race, why is it that we are the most savage? How would a scientist
feel if they were plunged in boiling water for the pathetic excuse of measuring
pain levels? It’s barbaric! Not only is it unethical, but it is inaccurate too!
Did you know that 92% of drugs that pass the animal testing stage cause fatal
effects in humans? Ridiculous. Absolutely ludicrous. I believe that if society
continuous in this way, then not only have we failed as individuals, but as an
entire race. “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they
talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
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