Thought for today...
Jan. 22nd, 2003 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyregleaned 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.
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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Date: 2003-01-22 07:01 am (UTC)If you know what the word disembowelled means, you're too civilised to do it. Especially if you can spell it too. :P
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Date: 2003-01-22 07:17 am (UTC)In future I will remember to be more creative with my spellamalling.
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Date: 2003-01-22 10:56 pm (UTC)