We need to stand together against animal-abuse in America

[Vidu]

I saw this video about researchers using a dog to play with his genes to make his nails glow and stuff, and they still use rats/mice in research, and what else. Animals have same feelings and needs as us, it sits in a lab all day and needing to give blood, vets are abusing animals today also with forcing operations on them. We need to stand together against animal-abuse, we can`t use them to find cures for diseases, what is the point of curing people if other beings are suffering?

 

[Desk trauma]

I saw this video about researchers using a dog to play with his genes to make his nails glow and stuff, and they still use rats/mice in research, and what else. Animals have same feelings and needs as us, it sits in a lab all day and needing to give blood, vets are abusing animals today also with forcing operations on them. We need to stand together against animal-abuse, we can`t use them to find cures for diseases, what is the point of curing people if other beings are suffering?

Except we do use animals in research to understand treat and cure human diseases.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I saw this video about researchers using a dog to play with his genes to make his nails glow and stuff, and they still use rats/mice in research, and what else. Animals have same feelings and needs as us, it sits in a lab all day and needing to give blood, vets are abusing animals today also with forcing operations on them. We need to stand together against animal-abuse, we can`t use them to find cures for diseases, what is the point of curing people if other beings are suffering?

If research using mice ultimately means potentially millions of human lives being saved, then as much as I might feel bad for mice, the price of the lives of mice is incomparable to the value of human beings.

Ultimately, yes, I do believe that the lives of sentient, sapient beings--humans--is more important than that of mice.

If it were possible to achieve the same goals without using living things for research, then I would enthusiastically support that alternative. But unless you are aware of an alternative, then it is ultimately suggesting that we should allow for the potential deaths and sufferings of millions of human beings in order to assuage our guilt over mice.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Ophiolite]

If it were possible to achieve the same goals without using living things for research, then I would enthusiastically support that alternative. But unless you are aware of an alternative, then it is ultimately suggesting that we should allow for the potential deaths and sufferings of millions of human beings in order to assuage our guilt over mice.

My understanding is that the combination of advanced computers with detailed knowledge of the various biochemical mechanisms that occur within cells make it possible to replace much of the research with accurate simulations. And you don't have to clean up the poop afterwards. I am not aware of the full scope of this alternative, but it likely has practical advantages in addition to the elimination of the abuse that troubles @Vidu (and me, and you).