Term 2 - Blog 1.
This is my response on the article written by Julia Kite about animal testing. After I spent some time to think, think, and think, I decided that I agree with her, support it. And here, I would like to share my views about animal testing.
Firstly, let me define the term "Animal testing". "Animal testing" is an experiment done for human benefits by using animals as guinea pigs. Since a long time ago, this issue has become one of the most popular issues to be talked about. The people themselves have been divided into two sides; the pros who claim that the benefits of animal testing are undeniably enormous, while the cons question about the value of the animals.
There are two most significant points I want to emphasize on my reflection about the current issue this time; the benefits we have acquired from it and the value of human.
When I browsed the Internet looking for the benefits of animal rights, I have found hundreds of them. The discovery of migraines, the shocking fact that trans-fat was bad, and many others benefits were brought to the scene due to animal testing. Thanks to it, millions of lives are saved. We gain the cure for the incurable diseases, new knowledge about the world that we need to survive longer in this wild world, and prevent our children from suffering.
Now that all of us have agreed that animal testing has brought a lot of benefits for us, how about the rights of the animals themselves? Is it that because you suffer somebody else has to suffer? No! It’s not that they have to suffer because we suffer, it is that in this cruel world we cannot deny that somebody has to suffer and we choose them as there’s not much difference for the chicken, to end up in a fast-food restaurant or a science lab, but it do make a big difference for us.
Imagine you‘re trapped in a condition like this. You’re alone trapped in a jungle, facing a lion right in front of your eye. You had a gun in your hand and the lion was ready to attack you! Will you hesitate to pull out the trigger of the gun? I believe you will answer no. This explains that deep inside ourselves we realized that we are more important. If they don’t test the products to animals, then they will have to directly sell the products to the market, and if so who will suffer?
Think about it again.
At first when I heard about this issue, I directly thought that animal testing is bad, we must stop it. But, after I think about it again I reached to my conclusion, animal testing must strive on, at least until we find a better way of protecting us from side-effect danger. Yes, I know it’s cruel. Yes, I agree it’s heart-wrenching. But, you don’t want to see your 5-year old daughter suffering unnecessarily, don't you?
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