Edinburgh Medical Charity Ends Forced Swim Tests After PETA Campaign
Edinburgh Medical Charity Ends Forced Swim Tests After PETA Campaign
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Edinburgh Medical Charity Ends Forced Swim Tests After PETA Campaign
Edinburgh Medical Charity Ends Forced Swim Tests After PETA Campaign
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
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Excellent news! Animals have no place in scientific testing. Not for cosmetics, not for medicine. Keep animals out of human affairs!
It’s ironic a lot of people cheering this will be doing so whilst wearing clothes made by young humans (often children) being exploited for pennies in a sweatshop.
Your entire Western lifestyle only exists from exploiting others.
As far as most of the globe is concerned ‘you’ are the bad guys using more than your share of resources, and screwing over other poor people to maintain your own ‘middle class’ status whilst some of them literally live in dirt.
You want to justify your use of fast fashion because there’s slightly less animal exploitation?
That’s a drop in the bucket compared to all the other exploitation that goes into the materials that produce those products.
Good. Forced swim tests are pretty much junk science in any case.
So voluntary swim tests with a bronze swimming certificate at the end. gotcha – Scientists.
this sounds insane, not going to lie. What did scientists hope to gain with this test?
Wtf I have never heard of this before, it sounds psychopathic! How is drowning a mouse in any way related to human mental health?!
I think the really interesting thing is the psychology behind researchers who do these kind of tests on animals.
I’m not commenting on this specific test (which sounds like a load of shite and is being rightfully criticised) but just animal testing in general.
I’m sure most researchers are thoroughly decent people who are just committed to advancing medicine and view animal testing as an unfortunate necessity. I would say I generally agree with that principle, doing things like deliberately giving mice cancer so you can study it is absolutely awful, but if that research could one day save the life of myself, a loved one, or just people in general? Then I want them to do it.
Having said that, there is no fucking way I could do it myself, watching endless numbers of innocent animals suffer and die because of what I’m doing to them for some research that will maybe pay off for every few hundred/thousand of them that die.
So how do these researchers do it? Do they feel bad at first then just get desensitised, or does the nature of jobs maybe just preclude animal lovers in the first place?