2012年1月30日星期一

the experiment on animals

In Oxford, I saw the activity to promote protecting animals.
Conservationists gathered before the college, call on the public attention to the experiment with animals.




They think that we should not use animals to simulate the human——Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals and the answer is, “because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals and the answer is, “because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.

·         However, as a medical student, I attended the courses about medical experimental zoology. I believe that although animals’ sacrifices are great, but experiment on animal is necessary, at least the experiment for humans. In the development process, we humans will always do unfair things to the nature to promote our own benefit. Animal experiments are necessary in some areas which are closely linked to human life and safety. We do not want to see the situation that a drugs causes serious adverse as a consequent of not doing enough animal experiments (such as the thalidomide incident, it is 2 years after using the drug that doctors found the drug has serious teratogenicity effects and it caused very bad consequence).
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·         The body shop is a very famous cosmetics brand in UK, claiming that they do not experiment on animals, which appeals to the most British. However, natural substances processed and mixed will have an impact on the human body. The information about its effects on people can only be got from volunteers and consumers, we have to put a "?" to it.

More possible behavior is to do reasonable experiments on animal
——selecting the appropriate animals, choosing the minimal and effective enough number of samples. On the other hand, we must have the attitude of gratitude for animal, protect the animals’ possible feelings in all aspects, such as animal husbandry, the experiment process, and even euthanasia methods should be considered.
·         We thank to animals those who have gone and will be dedicated to the development of human medicine.

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