Liberation

Picture this, you’ve just came home from the mall and you’re going to try on that brand new moisturizer, cosmetic or vitamin supplement. Then suddenly, your skin begins to flare up with inflammation, your tongue itches or you begin to have strange pains. Yet, according to the bottle, these are just minor side effects. Imagine what bigger side effects people had to face during human trials to perfect that product. Or worst, what animal had to suffer the consequences in order to ensure the safety…

Animal testing is probably one of the most debatable topics of medicine today. It has been used for over a century and a half, and it still continues to expand its usage more and more every year. Although banned in some countries, statistics of others are terrifying, making us question whether it is or it isn’t the right choice when it comes to using innocent animals for research purposes. First of all, animals do not choose to be in a lab. They do not get to choose to be treated like they are…

Drug companies have other agendas especially when it comes to making a profit through our pets. Drugs or known by their other name in the professional field (Medicine) has been right along side with the evolution of humanity furthermore the advancement of technology. Pets both Domestic and exotic have skyrocketed in popularity and according to the APPA National Pet Owners survey, “65% of U.S households own a pet, which equates to 79.7 million homes” (APPA). But along with Pets comes veterinarian…

Biological implications: There are many positive and negative biological implications. Organisations experiment on vertebrate animals because of their similar nervous system to ours. Meaning that if the animals feel pain from the drug humans are more likely too feel pain too. Although from saying that animals and humans are never exactly the same making the experiment unreliable. Testing on animals can cause suffering and death. Suffering is important and essential and is always present even if…

According to Broad, ag-gag laws refer to the “Laws aimed at prohibiting unauthorized individuals from taking photographs and videos of animals agricultural operations.” From the perspectives of big agriculture, they think undercover videos are harmful to their farm owner’s privacy given that their family members work and operate in the farms day in and day out. Big agriculture also thinks undercover videos damages their farm business. They state advocacy campaign’s videos were selectively edited…

How did you parents know if you were a boy or girl before you were even born? Well, the doctors use a machine that projects ultrasound waves into the stomach and shows how they reflected back. But what is ultrasound? It’s a type of sound wave that has a higher frequency than what we can hear. There’s also the opposite, which is called infrasound waves. They are also sound waves but they have a lower frequency than what we can detect with our ears. We have been researching it for hundreds of…

Puritan Structure The Puritan structure. This mid 1600s structure is very different from our 21st century homes. in exterior raw materials the differences are remarkable. Their roofs leak and often had rodents living in them. Could you image rodents living above you. Today we have sheet steel or shingles. They are water resistance and doesn’t possess possible places for rodents to live. in the figure below you should be able to see the differences between your home and a puritan house. The…

When penalties are issued to the laboratories and organizations that do not follow the guidelines, they are negligible, and do little to deter companies, schools, and labs from continuing to place these animals in dangerous situations. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is an organization, founded by attorneys, which files lawsuits to protect animals. Their goal is to assure the punishment of animal abusers. There are also many organizations that work to prevent animal cruelty and misuse,…

Using Animals in Biomedical Research “One million insulin-dependent diabetics survive today because of the discovery of insulin and the study of diabetes using dogs, rabbits, rats and mice models” according to Foundation for Medical Research. The topic of whether animals should be used in biomedical testing remains to be one of the most controversial topic in United States today. Although one may argue animals should not be used in biomedical research because there are many alternatives out…

oxycontinand vvaspressin are said to have effect on social behavior on rodent, so an experiment was being done on rodents to see the affects they have. The experiments involve two different groups of rodents and support idea that they had. the first group were males that already had the oxytocin gene, the other was praire vole in the couples had stable monogramous bond. The rodents that already had the oxytocin genes were unconscious and could not produce the oxycontin hormone. Without the…