It doesn't really bother me that people eat animals or use products that test on them because society is brain washed to think that this stuff is normal and that they don't REALLY hurt the animals. What bothers me is when people see pictures and read all the literature and see the images of a Draize test done on bunnies or an LD50 on a dog that looks exactly like theirs. They sit and comment on how horrible it is and then they go out and eat a big mac and buy cover-girl cosmetics.
There is a Christian girl at my school and one day I brought up the topic of animal rights. She, without hesitation, said that god put all animals on the earth for us to eat, experiment, and do whatever we wanted to do with them. That god made us a more advanced species so we could use animals to our disposal. Have you ever heard such moronic bullshit? I don’t believe in god but I believe one of the reason we are more advanced than animals is that it is our duty to protect them from having to live in a miniscule pen until they are killed to make burgers and to protect them from having electrodes implanted into their heads just to see what would happen.
In Canada there are laws protecting against oppression against all groups. Gay people, black people, women, children etc. But in Canada there are no laws against any sort of testing on laboratory animals. The government gives companies money to mutilate, blind, burn, cut and maim as many animals as they need to in order to make things “safe” for humans. People often forget the definition of an animal is “a living being capable of feeling.” Animals feel just as much as we do and often feel even more. Yet the government doesn't seem to care. Testing done for cosmetic purposes do not need to be done on animals. Our knowledge of the human body combined with hair/skin samples and human volunteers are all that are needed. As for medicinal experimentation some must be done on animals but alot of it is unnecessary. With the use of cadavers, pervious history, and tissue samples only a small amount of testing should have to be done in animals if any at all.
Although humans have been eating animals for thousands of years compare the practices of getting meat from a few hundred years ago vs now. Before people would have to make spears or other weapons from rocks and hunt down the animals until they killed them. Now cows, chickens, and pigs are kept in captivity without any hope of escape. Their short lives are not out in the wild with their families but tortured and abused to ultimately end up as part of your child’s happy meal. At least in the old school practices there was some integrity to it. People worked hard to get their food and didn’t waste any of the animal because it was worth alot more to them. Now people throw away many part of animals because they can.
People are so eager to educate themselves. They spend thousands of dollars and 4 years in university to end up in some desk job while the entire time they don’t know half of what is going on in the world around them. Most people don’t know that mc donalds was sued for inhumane living conditions for animals. Most people don’t know this because Mc Donalds is a billion dollar corporation and can black mail nwespapers/televsion news programs to not tell the public about what is going on. If the news programs do make mc donalds then mc donalds pulls their million dollar advertisements putting the newspapers/tv stations out of business. This goes for other issues other than animal rights but that's another essay unto its self. But anyway thanks to societies like PETA you can be informed about what exactly is done to the pigs and chickens that make the sausage and eggs in your $3.99 breakfast. So all i ask of you is to read! Be an informed member of society and inform others.
