Does a correlation exist between vegans and terrorists? How far are you willing to go to save animals?!
Answers: We homo sapiens are on top of the food chain, but do not forget that we are also animals. I am disgusted by animal activists who oppose animal research for medical purposes that can potentially find cures to save millions of lives; not only for humans, but other animals also get cancer ect....
You mistakenly assume that all vegans are against animal research that could potentially save lives. There are degrees to how far someone subscribes to any ideology (like the difference between a Muslim and then a jihadist that's strapping on a bomb vest, ready to blow up a bus full of tourists).
I am personally in med school and am vegan and I see myself as having a more informed, educated stance on animal testing. I think that there are some things right now that evolved from animal experimentation that is very useful for humans (for instance, radical brain surgery that was first performed on apes, so that now we can remove tumors from even the most sensitive pockets of brain tissue in humans and feel assured that the human will lose little to no major functions).
However, by and large, animal testing isn't as effective as you would like to believe. Have you done much research on the subject, or do you work in the medical field?
Do you understand that research on animals is rarely effective? Sometimes it does produce miracles, but usually it's just done because it's required, and sometimes just for the heck of it (like testing prostate health drugs on pregnant monkeys, causing them to die or miscarry, then examining the fetuses - um, pregnant women will never even TAKE prostate drugs, nor any woman for that matter, we don't have prostates).
Also, sometimes a drug tested on very like animals (like two different breeds of hamster) will have very different results. So how can drugs tested on lab rats for a very short period of time ever be able to be generalized on human beings? Answer: they can't, which is why medications are endlessly being recalled. Not only are there problems with the testing in itself (it's too short), it's also tested on creatures that often can't mimic precisely what will happen when humans take it.
For instance, most drugs are only tested on male lab specimens, which results in inconclusive results on the effects on females (female hormones and bodily functions sometimes can massively affect drugs). This too has led to some disastrous incidents when medications hit the mass market.
Going back to veganism correlating to terrorism. There is a far greater correlation between religious extremism and terrorism in my opinion, and cruelty as well. Have you ever watched the documentary "Jesus Camp", in which children are barraged with bizarre, nonfactual garbage, taught extensively about how everyone that doesn't believe is going to hell, and even abused emotionally? (One boy got so scared he wouldn't be saved he had an enormous psychotic nervous breakdown during filming of the documentary - he was 7). The documentary chronicles the growing extreme right wing evangelical movement in America.
Humans are omnivores, not carnivores. We can digest meat and plant matter and even choose to live off of plants if we want. Report It
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