Certain sectors of Irish society are 100% opposed to embryonic stem cell research, but I wonder what the response has been to the headline in Monday’s Irish Examiner.
“THE number of animals used for experimentation in Irish laboratories has rocketed 800% in five years, raising serious concerns among welfare groups.”
According to latest figure 280,000 animals were used last year in live experiments, and of these a record 831 dogs were used of which 791 were not even given anaesthetic.
Politics and religion are 2 things that they say you should never discuss with friends, and even though we are all friends here on the pedigree dogs blog, I’m sure if you believe in a God, then you would all agree that we are all Gods creatures ?
I think that George Orwell in Animal Farm, hit the nail on the head –
“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
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