[322] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: thoughts on animal research (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lmtancre@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 28 19:20:25 1995
From: lmtancre@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:19:34 EST
this conversation should probably be moved to seta, but just to
respond...
>vs. being used after it was dead. I think that the person
>who wrote the original post is aware of the difference, but
>is probably an optimist (I say this because I am an
>optimist) and just wanted to point out that some good could
>potentially come from an otherwise sad death of a beloved
>animal. :/
im an optimist as well and agree that benefit could come from the
otherwise sad death of a beloved animal. i think that benefit could
come from the otherwise sad death of a human as well, and im not ready
to say that i have a problem with using any animal body (human or otherwise)
*after* death. my contention was that the original poster compared
post-mortum human organ donating to pre-mortum animal testing.
on a related note, im sure that medical benefits for humans could arise
from testing on live humans (certainly more so than on animals, since
our bodies are quite different -- after all, there is an uproar about
the medical community's relying on resarch done in male humans not
extrapolating well to the same illnesses in females; certainly there is
a bigger difference across species) but that doesnt mean that "unwanted"
humans (or animals) *should* be tested on while they are alive.
-lucy
