 Purred: Fri May 4, '07 6:45pm PST |
 | |  | | When my mama was growing up, she wanted to be a doctor. She took Honors Anatomy at Skyline High School in Dallas, TX, and they had to dissect a cat. At the time, she felt a little guilt over dissecting the cat, but her teacher said that they were euthanized cats from shelters. Most of the cats had been ill and all of them had worms and various battle scars. My mama is so torn over the whole issue of using animals for research. It hurts her heart so bad to think of animals in cages or being killed for research.  But at the same time, she knows that a lot of the benefits of the research are passed on to us pets. Like epilepsy medicine and antibiotics. So, for now, she sees it as a necessary evil-- evil being the primary term. But she thinks that humans should feel really really bad about it, and hopefully that will lead to ways of researching without using animals. |  |  | |  |
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I need to read everyones comments before I can post mine. I'm wondering if this is were the kids are getting the idea ,it's ok to abuse animals?
Another good contact is Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: www.pcrm.org
C'mon!
