ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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"Between half a million and two million species - 15 to 20 percent of all species on earth - could be extinguished by the year 2000. Extinction of species on this scale is without precedent in human history."
(From The Global 2000 Report to the President of the United States of America, 1980.)
With the advent of vivisection all species, being contingent says man to the human species, became endangered as their steady flow into the laboratories became a torrent. Today we inhabit the Earth as one species over many, instead of one species among many. No species of animals, fish, bird or reptile is safe from domination by false and erroneous pseudo science.
Animal farming, as currently practised spells doom for much of the planet. It has turned good land into deserts, weed patches and dustbowls. Water pollution, destruction of the rainforests, the greenhouse effect and acid rain is our legacy to the 21st century. As this work is being prepared Wellingtonians (Dominion, November 6 1990) are being told that the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium are present in high levels in the waterways below all the region's effluent stations and that higher levels of chemicals will be put in the city's water supply.
As we destroy ecosystems with tree-felling, bulldozers and pesticides, other beings, their habitats destroyed, are doomed. The finding of cures for man's self-inflicted problems and the saving of the species which he himself has endangered will not be found through vivisection. If we are to maintain a habitable planet, ethical, political, economic and social changes must be made, and quickly, for man himself has long joined the kakapo and kokako as an endangered species.
| "O mystic bell-bird of the heavenly race of the swallow and dove, the quetzal and the nightingale. When the brutish savage and the brutish white man that slay thee, one for food, the other for the benefit of science, shall have passed away, live still, live to tell thy message to the blameless spiritualised race that shall come after us to possess the Earth, not for a thousand years, but for ever." (W. H. Hudson, Green Mansions.) |