New CP, new person - same old arguments!
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
Most companies no longer test on animals for small stuff--no more lipstick in the eyes of rabbits. I am a HUGE animal lover. But I do think some animal testing is necessary for diseases and medicine. Apes have 99% same genetics as animals. We use pig heart valves to replace human ones. This is not just chance.
Current Rant: "Chuck for Huck?" http://craptasticnation.blogspot.com/[^]
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
Once again my overwhelming ambivalence on this issue comes to the fore. It's not that I disagree with you it's merely that this issue is so far down my list of priority problems in the world that I can't imagine feeling strongly enough to rant about it without my priorities being seriously and badly adjusted. It work out something like this People's eternal wellbeing. People's short term wellbeing Stewardship of the planet to ensure the vaiability of future people's wellbeing Being nice to animals vegtables and minerals The problem is that there are so many things wrong in categories 1-3, billions of souls to save, freedom and democracy to restore to my own people and then hopefully others, food supply, sanitation, education, deforestation, even GW or CC, manmade or otherwise, if it comes to that. When all these things are put to rights and the world is at peace, fed , watered, free and back in a right relationship with God then somehow I think the vivsection thing will have sorted itself out. If not, I'll look into it then I promise ;)
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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Congrats on your 1000 posting. That's about the only thing I can say that won't upset too many people. You, just as fat_boy, are passionate about your respective views, and I appreciate these views whilst they are not thrust down my throat as if they are THE only view. Because I appreciate you views, doesn't mean that I neither accept nor reject them in their entirety as both parties are equally compelling in their many differing aspects. As with anything, if you view that a change in law is necessary, pursue it peacefully, even if you end up failing to do so.
I do agree with the non-violent approach, even if I feel like hitting out at times... in the end violence only gives those opposed to you an excuse to divert the argument away from the "ends" and onto the "means".
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
I assume you are a vegan to hold such a viewpoint. If not how do feel eating factory farmed meat? I was watching a program the other day on the subject, one of the scenes that stayed in my mind, was the person on the conveyor-belt, picking off under-size chicks and quickly pressing their head against something and pressing a pedal to push something through the chick's brain, the limp form then tossed into a huge barrel, apparently to go to be processed into f&&& knows what. The person was "processing" more than one chick a second. This pales against up to a million Iraqi dead though doesn't it?
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Most companies no longer test on animals for small stuff--no more lipstick in the eyes of rabbits. I am a HUGE animal lover. But I do think some animal testing is necessary for diseases and medicine. Apes have 99% same genetics as animals. We use pig heart valves to replace human ones. This is not just chance.
Current Rant: "Chuck for Huck?" http://craptasticnation.blogspot.com/[^]
I agree there are much more animal-friendly producst about - but I would encourage everyone to look for a "not tested on animals" label on anything before they buy it. You can even ask your doctor, when s/he is rpescibing meds, if there are any "not tested on animals" alternatives. If am not mistaken, we share most of our genes with most animals, but this is another matter. I am not opposed to genetic engineering per se.
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Once again my overwhelming ambivalence on this issue comes to the fore. It's not that I disagree with you it's merely that this issue is so far down my list of priority problems in the world that I can't imagine feeling strongly enough to rant about it without my priorities being seriously and badly adjusted. It work out something like this People's eternal wellbeing. People's short term wellbeing Stewardship of the planet to ensure the vaiability of future people's wellbeing Being nice to animals vegtables and minerals The problem is that there are so many things wrong in categories 1-3, billions of souls to save, freedom and democracy to restore to my own people and then hopefully others, food supply, sanitation, education, deforestation, even GW or CC, manmade or otherwise, if it comes to that. When all these things are put to rights and the world is at peace, fed , watered, free and back in a right relationship with God then somehow I think the vivsection thing will have sorted itself out. If not, I'll look into it then I promise ;)
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
That's all very well, but it isn't that easy to separate all this out. Life is a big complex ball of things that feed back and off each other, and while it makes for an easy life to compartmentalise it all, the result of such thinking is the mess we now have. All the three categories you place "above" animal welfare are actully intricately tied up with it. People'e well-being would be a lot better off if we didn't abuse animals in all the ways that we do. And if we had the collective psyche that had some decent respect for animals and the planet we lived on, we'd all be better off.
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I assume you are a vegan to hold such a viewpoint. If not how do feel eating factory farmed meat? I was watching a program the other day on the subject, one of the scenes that stayed in my mind, was the person on the conveyor-belt, picking off under-size chicks and quickly pressing their head against something and pressing a pedal to push something through the chick's brain, the limp form then tossed into a huge barrel, apparently to go to be processed into f&&& knows what. The person was "processing" more than one chick a second. This pales against up to a million Iraqi dead though doesn't it?
Yes, I am vegan. It may be naive of me, but I cannot help but think that if people were forced to confront, daily, what goes on in factories and laboratories aournd the world every day, they would think harder about what they allow to go on in their name. I tell myself it is "only" a willfil ignorance - people closing their eyes to it - that means it still goes on. The truth is so shockingly appalling, it really pains me to think that people don't care. It isn't "just" a case of a few caring scientists doing careful tests on a few anethasized animals... it is a genuine horror show.... and it doesn't even yield the benefits it is claimed to.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
This pales against up to a million Iraqi dead though doesn't it?
Two things: 1) Ppeople can act and think for themselves - even poor Iraqis. Animals are at our mercy. 2) there were millions of Iraqis being killed before the war, by that tyrant called Saddam Hussein.
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That's all very well, but it isn't that easy to separate all this out. Life is a big complex ball of things that feed back and off each other, and while it makes for an easy life to compartmentalise it all, the result of such thinking is the mess we now have. All the three categories you place "above" animal welfare are actully intricately tied up with it. People'e well-being would be a lot better off if we didn't abuse animals in all the ways that we do. And if we had the collective psyche that had some decent respect for animals and the planet we lived on, we'd all be better off.
Agreed up to a point but the same argument turns on itself. There are a lot of other spiritual, psychological, sociological and cultural secondary issues that feedback in the same way and are far more significant to items 1-3 than the narrow field of animal-experiments effects on animal welfare. One worry in all this is that a similar point of view often comes across from those who actually value animals above people and would happily see more people suffer if it meant less animals suffering. I consider this both immoral and borderline psychotic. I'm not saying you fall into that category at all but giving this issue an unwarrented importance only encourages those who do. Such people (not as rare as some will no doubt claim) are already a danger to themselves and others in my opinion and need treatment not sane people appearing to justify their position. :sigh:
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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Yes, I am vegan. It may be naive of me, but I cannot help but think that if people were forced to confront, daily, what goes on in factories and laboratories aournd the world every day, they would think harder about what they allow to go on in their name. I tell myself it is "only" a willfil ignorance - people closing their eyes to it - that means it still goes on. The truth is so shockingly appalling, it really pains me to think that people don't care. It isn't "just" a case of a few caring scientists doing careful tests on a few anethasized animals... it is a genuine horror show.... and it doesn't even yield the benefits it is claimed to.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
This pales against up to a million Iraqi dead though doesn't it?
Two things: 1) Ppeople can act and think for themselves - even poor Iraqis. Animals are at our mercy. 2) there were millions of Iraqis being killed before the war, by that tyrant called Saddam Hussein.
Fred_Smith wrote:
Yes, I am vegan.
Good or I would have called you a hypocrite :) Arguably populations are too large now to avoid factory farming, maybe people need educating. But I saw the program and made my choice and carry on eating meat. I like game especially. Being a vegan in Spain would be very difficult. How could you live without cheese, arghhh.
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
I owe my quality of life to a drug that is produced using lab grown genetically modified hamster ovaries. No vivisection involved in the actual production, but if those hamster ovaries hadn't been there in the first place to test with, this drug wouldn't exist. Plain, empirical evidence that it does work.
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Agreed up to a point but the same argument turns on itself. There are a lot of other spiritual, psychological, sociological and cultural secondary issues that feedback in the same way and are far more significant to items 1-3 than the narrow field of animal-experiments effects on animal welfare. One worry in all this is that a similar point of view often comes across from those who actually value animals above people and would happily see more people suffer if it meant less animals suffering. I consider this both immoral and borderline psychotic. I'm not saying you fall into that category at all but giving this issue an unwarrented importance only encourages those who do. Such people (not as rare as some will no doubt claim) are already a danger to themselves and others in my opinion and need treatment not sane people appearing to justify their position. :sigh:
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
That is a terrible excuse for ignoring it! Why does caring about people mean you can't also care about animals? Basically, you don't WANT to, be truthful and admit that's what it comes down to. You don't want to change your eating/living habits, but do want an excuse to feel good about yourself, so you tell yourself what a good person you are because you care about people. What you are doing is using the extreme views of some animal rightists as an excuse to not have to think about this issue. But it's irrelvant - so what if you don't agree with them? Why does that stop you from caring about the abuse of animals? If you want to care about people first and foremost, fine - but you can still care about animal welfare whatever the case, and whatever others do. And one reason some of us are so vocal about it is because the animals cannot speak for themselves. No animal has volunteered to be medically experimented on, or to be killed for your dinner. I don't not care about people - I just know there are plenty of people working and fighting on their behalf, but precious few who will argue the animals' corner. It is a red-herring, a deliberate distraction to move the argument away from animal rights and onto one about who cares most for what.
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I owe my quality of life to a drug that is produced using lab grown genetically modified hamster ovaries. No vivisection involved in the actual production, but if those hamster ovaries hadn't been there in the first place to test with, this drug wouldn't exist. Plain, empirical evidence that it does work.
I don't know the specifics of the drug you refer to, of course, but the fact that it improves your quality of life in itself proves nothing vis a vis vivisection. As with diabetes research and isulin, or penicillin, or polio vaccines - it could well be that animal experiments have actually thrown research off track and/or delayed it by years. Whatever chemical compounds found in your hamster ovaries are beneficial to you, I guarantee you - I guaranmtee you - could be found elsewhere, and may well have even been found earlier (or by now) if it wasn't for the vivsectionists. Of course the results of some animal experiments may well tie in with beneficial results, but that does mean that vivisrection is the best way (scientifically) to go about things. In fact, I would argue the opposite: that is a bad way and that there is plenty of empirical evidence to prove it (try reading up on the above-mentioned examples, for starters. There's plenty more too.)
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Fred_Smith wrote:
Yes, I am vegan.
Good or I would have called you a hypocrite :) Arguably populations are too large now to avoid factory farming, maybe people need educating. But I saw the program and made my choice and carry on eating meat. I like game especially. Being a vegan in Spain would be very difficult. How could you live without cheese, arghhh.
AndyKEnZ wrote:
Arguably populations are too large now to avoid factory farming,
I could indeed argue against this, but maybe we'll leave that for another time...
AndyKEnZ wrote:
How could you live without cheese,
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AndyKEnZ wrote:
But I saw the program and made my choice and carry on eating meat
- I presume the latter would apply anyway. Sigh.
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
Fred, I'm honoured you think of me as your "arch-nemesis", but truth be told I am against vivisection. However, what I cannot so easily dismiss are the other medical research aspects like cancer studies. I agree with you that it's horrible for rats to be injected with cancer cells, etc.. but there really are no other viable ways of studying such diseases without animal trials. It's an unfortunate situation and the higher up the evolutionary tree one goes, the harder it is for me to justify. For example, many diabetics owe their lives to dogs on which insulin was tested. It's a difficult ethical dilemma, to be sure and I don't take such things lightly. Anyways, I have not and would not vivisect an animal, but it's also difficult to deny the many medical advances that have been brought about by animal trials. And in case you think I'm heartless, every year I go to Samos in Greece and when I return to Europe I always transport rescued dogs that are exported from Greece to Europe in order that they can be given homes. The Greeks have a terrible problem with homeless animals. All you have to be willing to do is have the dog/cat checked in under your name. It's then flown from Greece to Europe where it's unloaded and taken to a shelter for adoption. Many people don't know about it, but there's no cost involved, just a willingness to transport the animal. Anyways, that is all.
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Fred, I'm honoured you think of me as your "arch-nemesis", but truth be told I am against vivisection. However, what I cannot so easily dismiss are the other medical research aspects like cancer studies. I agree with you that it's horrible for rats to be injected with cancer cells, etc.. but there really are no other viable ways of studying such diseases without animal trials. It's an unfortunate situation and the higher up the evolutionary tree one goes, the harder it is for me to justify. For example, many diabetics owe their lives to dogs on which insulin was tested. It's a difficult ethical dilemma, to be sure and I don't take such things lightly. Anyways, I have not and would not vivisect an animal, but it's also difficult to deny the many medical advances that have been brought about by animal trials. And in case you think I'm heartless, every year I go to Samos in Greece and when I return to Europe I always transport rescued dogs that are exported from Greece to Europe in order that they can be given homes. The Greeks have a terrible problem with homeless animals. All you have to be willing to do is have the dog/cat checked in under your name. It's then flown from Greece to Europe where it's unloaded and taken to a shelter for adoption. Many people don't know about it, but there's no cost involved, just a willingness to transport the animal. Anyways, that is all.
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Fred_Smith wrote:
What is your take on this[^]?
I think that's a misrepresentation of the discovery of insulin. Banting and Best discovered insulin by analysing the pancreases of dogs. Insulin was discovered in 1922. Prior to 1922, nobody knew of it - if you want to be pedantic, in 1919 a Romanian basically isolated insulin, but was unable to fully understand what he had. History contradicts what is written in the site you linked to. If what that site claims was true, then by now (in modern times) there would be a cure for diabetes rather than treatment with insulin. Such is not the case because the disease is quite complex. It is also very easy to make these claims in retrospect. At the time, the situation was not so clear.
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
I agree with you. If we have the audacity to synthesize these strange and mysterious chemicals that require research and testing, then we should test it on our selves, unless of course the substance is for an animal to begin with. If it is too dangerous to test on a descent human then we should dig up a piece of shit from prison and make it useful to society. Someone who is getting the death penalty or one who is in for life would make a perfect candidate.
Word, write letters and sh*t yo.
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To celebrate my 1,000th post, and that I am therefore due to be granted a personality by thr Great Bob in the Cybersky, I thought I'd give you a break from Global Warming and cough-syrup and treat you instead to MY favourite rant... yeah, you guessed it... [I actually posted this on Monday, saw it here, then before you could say "Bob's your uncle" the site went down for the rest of the day... coincidence? Surely... it has been barely usable since then in the UK, but seems to be back now, though my post seems to have vanished and my count still shows 999... so here we go... (btw, heartfelt congrats and sympathies to Chris and team - what a few days you must have had - ouch!)] Anyway... yes, vivisection. It still just amazes me that anyone with half a brain still falls for this nonsense. How can testing drug A on animal N in a laboratory and observing result R tell you ANYTHING useful about how drug A will react in person X in the real world? Or person Y? I mean, it so obviously illogical, such obvious bad science, I have to wonder why it is that people cannot or will not see it... if my arch-nemesis 73Zeppelin wasn't so blinded by his preconceptions I'm sure he'd have some pyschological insights into it, but my suspicion is it's to do with peoples' fear of death, and their insatiable need to find some "answers" - some turn to priests in grey robes, and others to scientists in white coats.... and never mind the truth. There are countless examples of tragic and misleading results from vivisection, and any "success" is nothing more than co-incidence and chance. The point is, you cannot know what the results of human trials are until you try them - meanwhile your animals tests have told you nothing that you can rely on - if they were reliable there woudn't have been the catalogue of human disasters there have been, but simplre logic and clear thinking will tell you that such tests cannot possibly be reliable. And the eveidence backs this up. (I have posted up some examples of this in the past, and will again if anyone wants but a) you can Google this stuff for yourself if you want, and b) I really want you to just consider the simple logic - or illogic - of the vivisectionists' claims, as in para 3 above.) There was a story in the news just recently about how some new mouse experiment was going to lead to a revolutionary cure for cancer in a few years. Oh yawn, please. This nonsense is trotted out religiously every few years to keep you hooked and their money reeling in. I have lost c
We humans have used animals for our own benefit in one way or another for ever. The lives and wellbeing of humans has always been put before those of animals and Im ok with that. I dont buy the whole pharma companies = global conspiracy to keep scientists in work theory. If someone thinks they may have a compound that could be beneficial as a treatment for some medical issue and they kill 5000 mice to discover they were wrong thats perfectly ok with me. I think this is an interesting discussion in that it shows how drastic some changes in attitudes have been in the first world over the last 150 years. If you told a farmer in 1850 that its wrong to whip his ox you'd be put in an asylum. Today your called an "eco warrior".
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We humans have used animals for our own benefit in one way or another for ever. The lives and wellbeing of humans has always been put before those of animals and Im ok with that. I dont buy the whole pharma companies = global conspiracy to keep scientists in work theory. If someone thinks they may have a compound that could be beneficial as a treatment for some medical issue and they kill 5000 mice to discover they were wrong thats perfectly ok with me. I think this is an interesting discussion in that it shows how drastic some changes in attitudes have been in the first world over the last 150 years. If you told a farmer in 1850 that its wrong to whip his ox you'd be put in an asylum. Today your called an "eco warrior".
Josh Gray wrote:
The lives and wellbeing of humans has always been put before those of animals and Im ok with that.
Thats kind of like how when slave owners would justify owning slaves. We are animals by the way.