Monday, October 26, 2009

Travis's Animal Rights Homework

I don’t agree with vivisection, because animals are as same as human beings, they have their own rights to determine what they want to do and on which ways they can live better. Humans are always selfish in many aspects, we do what we want without caring about others, even force them to do things for us. For examples, polices train canaries to find out whether there is poisonous gas. They make canaries fly to some parts of the buildings, and check whether they come back in the end. Humans take advantage of the special smelling of canaries to help them find out the dangerous area, but canaries die because of the experiment. I want to ask a question, has someone ever asked those canaries whether they would like to help people find out the poisonous area before experiments? I believe the answer is always no people have done that, but if we ask humans with the same question, most of people’s answers might be no. So, how can we force those poor animals to do things that even humans don’t want to do, and sacrifice their own lives for us?

However, there are things we have no choice but to use animals to do some experiments, but the key point is that we can’t let them get hurt. We can use their genes to invent some new medicines, or we can take good advantage of every animal’s own special skill to improve something better, and so on. But never ever try to do inhuman things to animals.

1 comment:

  1. Well, no-one has asked the canaries. But if you COULD ask them, and get a meaningful answer, you would be dealing with a higher order animal like a human, not a canary!

    It does seem unfair, however.

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