Hard core animal rights activists would you kill a lab rat to save your infant or would hold the rat and watch your child die a horrible death?

Answer 1

would you kill cats to save our native wildlife?

I'm assuming from your question you agree with animal testing and vivisection.

If a mother or father faced the prospect of seeing their offspring die slowly and painfully when for some reason they have the option of their child miraculously recovering after the act of killing a small animal, there are very few who would save the rat.

But for a product, medication or procedure to even be considered for use on the masses it must have human tests. In this day and age, there are many alternatives to animal testing; scientists can even grow human flesh. Its sad that vivisection is still such a common practice.

Many of the tests carried out on animals do not have a distinct purpose, and each test is repeated on many different beings.

'Hardcore animal activists' are just people who still retain an affinity to the earth and living things, and believe that exploiting animals for our comforts is not the way we should be. Particularly not for useless research.

I strongly suggest you watch Earthlings, a documentary outlining how we as humans have become completely desensitised to the exploitation and suffering of billions of animals per year for our own desires.

If you're not ready for fully enlightening yourself, check out the Related Links for a link to a video that might interest you.