Dog experiments at Texas A & M

[Catherine]

I thought the article was good.  The issue of suffering is misunderstood a bit.

"No one in his right mind would equate a dog's suffering with a child's.

It isn't a dog's suffering vs. a child's suffering. I don't care less about the child because I care about the dog. The dog's suffering in no way helps the child or reduces the child's suffering. It just isn't right to make dogs suffer like that. It is worse because the suffering serves no purpose, but the real issue is deliberately making an animal suffer. There is something basically wrong with that.

Quote:This is deeply sad and disturbing. Bred deliberately to be sick, and then kept in awful conditions. The best thing that could happen to those lovely dogs is to pass away as fast as possible. It is heartbreaking.

This sums it up perfectly. It is heartbreaking.

Muscular Dystrophy is heartbreaking. All the time wasted researching in the wrong directions is heartbreaking. How many children have died without help because we are so locked into the idea of using animal research.

This is the whole history of medicine. We get locked into an idea of how to do things and people die until enough doctors are convinced that they should change. The idea of washing hands before delivering  baby took a long time to be accepted. Even with proof, doctors still prided themselves on not washing their hands while babies and mothers died.

We want to cling to our animal research models even though people die waiting for help.
I understand the MS research is having the same problems. Animal research is not giving any results. Time, money and animal lives are being wasted while people suffer.