Animal Sacrifice for Science

You probably have heard of Pavlov’s Dog, the famous story where someone rings a bell every time they feed the dogs, and after a few days the dogs drool whenever they ring the bell even though there is no food. Yes, these experiments were very helpful in the field of science, and yes, anti-phobia treatments may have not existed if it wasn’t for Pavlov. But how did Pavlov know exactly when and how much the dogs drooled? By implanting saliva-catch containers to the dogs’ muzzles.
Every year, more than 100 millions of rodents, dogs, cats, rabbits, primates, and other animals suffer from animal testing. Under the name of science, we give to these animals stress, poison, pain, and take away their eyesight, or even their lives. Now don’t get me wrong; I’m not entirely against animal testing for it is true that some of these tests saved millions of lives. I just believe firmly that a lot of the animal testing can be reduced, or replaced. For example, the use of animals in cosmetic testing that is only done to ensure that the companies have more data to defend themselves in lawsuits. With the technology we have, a lot of the animal testing can be reduced with alternatives, such as computer models, in vitro testing, artificially grown cells and tissues, etc. (Click here to read more about Alternative to Animal Testing)
We said it was wrong to torture war prisoners to perform “scientific” experiments on them. The animals feel pain as much as we do. The only difference is that they can’t express pain as well as we do.


(Watch a short video on animal testing.)