Thought for today...

[gemfyre]

gleaned from the lecture on animal ethics/welfare I had today.

Use of animals for teaching/research purposes has become very restricted nowdays. Some of this is for the good (some experiments are totally cruel and uneccessary) but sometimes it borders on depriving students of vital opportunities to learn properly.

Animals are also used for food, too many people are cruel to domestic animals, fishing is an accepted recreational sport, land clearing kills millions of animals pretty much every day, and in the wild most things die by being eaten alive.

So...

Are teachers and researchers an 'easy' target for concerned groups?


discuss.

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

okay. There were about 6 or so corks, each has a different percentage of the cork with grooves in it (some grooves horizontal, some vertical, some both ways depending on how much was grooved). Student was blindfolded, given the corks in random order to feel and had to put them in order of least to most grooved.

This experiment has been carried out on octopii, the octopus got a better result than the student did, however the student got an easter egg for being the guinea pig, I doubt the octopus was so lucky...