[332] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Animal research (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandeep Kumar Gupta)
Mon Jan 30 19:40:16 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:38:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Sandeep Kumar Gupta <skgupta@AMSTERDAM.LCS.MIT.EDU>
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
I'm fowarding this for a friend...
Sandeep
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"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice.
You must take it. The only choice is how." - Henry Ward Beecher
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 14:45:23 CST
From: H. Krishna Susarla <susarla@owlnet.rice.edu>
To: Sandeep Kumar Gupta <skgupta@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Animal research (fwd)
>
>I just read a common quote of how can you be a medical school student
>and a veggie?
>
>I sort of have a related dilema and want people's opinions...
>
>I have a job application that asks if I am willing to work with
>laboratory animals. I don't have a problem with it if I don't feel
>cruel...if I'd do it to humans I don't think its cruel.. I realie that
>the rest of "society" has a different definition of cruelty. The one
>area I have a problem with is when you're done with the mice what do you
>do with them...a common pracctice as I understand it is an overdosse of
>anistetic. I don't think this is right but cannot come up with any
>alternatives. Any ideas?
>
First of all, animal research is not required of medical students unless
they are planning to participate in basic science research. Only dissecting
of human cadavers.
The standard procedure for all lab animals is to sacrifice them after the
experiments are completed. This is because we can't release lab animals into
the wild since they may have been permanently altered, gained pathogens,
etc. The standard methods include over anesthitizing and also using a
cardiac arrest agent.
-- Krishna
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