With all this talk about growing and developing animals in a laboratory setting leads me to only one conclusion... Why don't we just grow human beings in a lab?
If you take a look at it, animals, like us are sentiant, cognitive beings that develop from infant to toddler to adolescent to adult. If some find it ethical to grow these nonhumans in a lab why not try and grow humans. If we take artificially constructed sperm and eggs or frozen sperm and eggs and create a living human it will solve a few problems.
1. We will no longer have to deal with the difference in genes or
body systems that we experience during animals experimentation.
2. All data will be beneficial to humans, the supposed goal of animal
experimentation, and we will not have to unnecessarily harm animals.
Additionally, if we grow humans from fetal stages and provide no education we can essentially turn them into the animals we deal with now. This then elimates the problem of taking humans from the population against their will and enables testing to give positive, direct results to scientists.
So, with the above sarcastic treatment of growing animals in the laboratory I hoped I gave some insight as to the absurdity of this arguement and scratched the surface of the far unbalanced scientific research on animals.
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Over the years, I've heard loose talk about the creation of mindless cows (insentient slabs of living muscle and bone) as a way to circumvent ethical worries about meat-eating. I wonder...
It certainly would take out the problem of mistreating sentient beings.
The idea of growing humans in a lab... isn't that currently an on-going fight in congress and the federal government with stem cell research?
I suppose so, but most people talking about stem cells are not concerned with cloning. They want to proliferate the medical knowledge in therapeutic stem cell research, as discussed in class today.
this is exactly the main issue of experimentation in America today.
people do not want to see our bodies set in such a manner that we would need to address the differences of a rational human, and a android human, which i am not sure would be the case with procuring segmented gene therapy upon a dying mass of blastomere
this is exactly the main issue of experimentation in America today.
people do not want to see our bodies set in such a manner that we would need to address the differences of a rational human, and a android human, which i am not sure would be the case with procuring segmented gene therapy upon a dying mass of blastomere
And because people dont want to see our bodies succumb to this type of experiementation they feel it is better to do this to animals. It is just like the vegetarian debate, people are not informed about their decisions, so they simply wont change and will continue their ignorant injustice.
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