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Some Cat Saved Your Grandma

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Some Cat Saved Your Grandma

Animal rights activists are constantly preaching about how doctors and scientists should give up testing on their cute furry little creatures because it not only causes the animal pain but also the activists’ pain. They just can’t stand seeing Fido and Fluffy in such nauseating conditions and being injected several times until their body gives out, and they can’t stand the sight or even hearing about the poor little Siamese kitten who’s eyes are bloodshot with tests for makeup samples. These activists also believe that alternative methods of testing products are more productive than animal testing, and that the scientists who conduct the tests on the animals are vicious and care nothing towards animals. They are also known to believe that animal testing makes no contribution to society and that clean water and good sanitation, not vaccines and antibiotics, are the solutions to the world’s problems (O’Donell).

Besides being utterly unreasonable with their myths of animal cruelty, animal rights activists are being perfectly hypocritical. If anyone has been hindered by a stroke, any head or spinal cord injuries, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, or any type of surgery they have been helps by the results of animal testing. Without the help of animal testing Polio would still kill and cripple thousands of adults and children, doctors would not have chemotherapy to save children suffering from lymphocytic leukemia, 7,500 newborns would develop cerebral palsy, and smallpox would still be here to kill more than the two million it has already killed (Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation. “Without”).

Picture a tall apartment building burning down in furious flames. You are the only person left alive in the still burning building, and you hear two cries for help. One is a pleading meow for safety of tiny pure black kitten, but the other is a desperate and loud scream calling, ‘Help! Help!” You can see that this cry comes from a small, skinny boy, no older than six, and he is shaking uncontrollably due to his server cerebral palsy condition. You are running out of time and can only save the life of either the kitten or the boy. Which would you choose?

It’s only natural to choose the boy over the kitten. Imagine telling this little boy’s mother and father about your striking decision and then telling them, “but the kitten was so small and cute! I couldn’t just leave it there! Sorry about your boy.

In this essay, the author

  • Explains that animal rights activists are constantly preaching about how doctors and scientists should give up testing on their cute furry little creatures because it causes the animal pain and the activists’ pain.
  • Opines that animal rights activists are hypocritical with their myths of animal cruelty. without animal testing, polio would still kill and cripple thousands of adults and children.
  • Narrates how they hear two cries for help in an apartment building burning down in furious flames. one is a pleading meow for safety of tiny black kitten, but the other is desperate and loud scream.
  • Explains that it's only natural to choose the boy over the kitten. the parents would be heartbroken. not one single thing can replace a human life.
  • Explains how hypotheticals can help us understand how human lives are more valuable than animal lives, and that without advances in animal testing people would be malnourished, sick and diseased.
  • Explains darwin's theory that every population of species has a main goal of survival in any situation. we must use our minds to create vaccinations and antibiotics that allow us to live longer, healthier lives.
  • Explains that animal rights activists believe that alternative methods of testing are more efficient and effective than testing on animals people of the ethical treatment of animals.
  • Opines that animal research is needed to conquer medical problems of today, just as it has conquered the past. alternative methods cannot withstand this title because they do not carry the potential of effects on other parts of the body.
  • Explains that animal rights activists shield themselves under the false idea that world wide clean water and good sanitation will solve all medical problems.
  • Opines that scientists want to see animal research end, but not at the expense of billions of lives waiting for unknown vaccination.
  • Argues that peta is under the assumption that researchers use less “cute” animals in their testing more because they think people won't object as much to a rat being tested.
  • Explains that parkin is a vocalist leader of the animal liberation front. the charges against him are directly related to his animal activists ties.
  • Explains that parkin is a known member of an animal rights group who is known for vandalising labortories.
  • Explains that direct action animal rights organizations, such as alf, have a reputation of vandalizing laboratories.
  • Explains that animal rights organizations like peta and alf receive support from most people because they hide their extremist views.
  • Opines that newkirk is being a hypocrite to his own organization.
  • Opines that animal rights organizations have sabotaged property, thrown away vital medical research, deceived people into giving them donations, and practically gone against their own views.
  • Quotes tom regan, a professor at north carolina state university and author of an animal rights activist's book. darwin believes in research by means of animal testing.
  • Cites americans for medical progress educational foundation's "without animal research."
  • Cites carnell, elisabeth, encarta, and people for the ethical treatment of animals.
  • Cites people for the ethical treatment of animals. "animal experimentation: sadistic scandal."
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