Animal/Insect testing is an interesting and necessary situation, although I think it would be wrong to say state its ethicality; argue how you may, but science is advanced on the testing of hypothesis - essentially examining the unknown, and since we cannot know the outcome, we cannot make a purely rational decision on the benefits of an experiment, only the possibility of its relative merit. Many people don't care to know the types of experiments done to produce insulin, but considering the advancing epidemic of diabetes across many countries the question of ethicality becomes blurry at best and commonly disregarded as moot.
My degree is Biomedical Sciences so I do understand the role of medical testing but the are other possibilities and there are ethical complications that generally seem to be circumvented by saying "it's not a higher animal" like that makes it ok.
Animals do deserve more respect whether there are a few hundred billion of them or not.
There's something quite unutterably sad about this..........
This site, and this subject, is arguably human inovation at it's best,...but this reminds me that humanbeings are basically evil and will always be doomed to missuse what they invent and discover......
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Animals do deserve more respect whether there are a few hundred billion of them or not.
I think one of my buddies ate one of those on a dare when we were kids.
Could have been slight of hand.
The scientific process is not always a palatable process.
Interestingly, I probably would defer showing my 6 year old that video, but if that moth were in our house I am sure he would step on it.
There's something quite unutterably sad about this..........
This site, and this subject, is arguably human inovation at it's best,...but this reminds me that humanbeings are basically evil and will always be doomed to missuse what they invent and discover......