Comments on: An End To Animal Research? http://www.omeri.com/blog/an-end-to-animal-research/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:04:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Harlee Goodwin http://www.omeri.com/blog/an-end-to-animal-research/#comment-47 Harlee Goodwin Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:57:35 +0000 http://www.omeri.com/?p=801#comment-47 I don't know the affect that cruelty-free research will have on medical science, but I have seen the look in the eyes of the victims of medical research. I like to use a simple gauge when judging whether something is right or wrong. I use my ESP, emotion/spirit/perception meter and let me tell you, passing by a room where a dog is yelping, pleading very clearly in his language, for mercy, as researchers prepare to put him through yet another abdominal surgery doesn't feel smart nor right nor fair. In fact, it felt like I, the dog and all witnesses were simultaneously being abused. I've spent even more time in hospital environments where I have seen the healing miracles that this research may produce. Children cured of cancer, hip and knee surgey that restores one to a productive life, and most of humanity has benefited from simple inventions like toothpaste, shampoo, housekeeping products. The list is endless. I don't know the best way to deal with this, but I know that if I were that dog about to go under the knife, I would ask that a moratorium be placed on using animals for frivolous and self-indulgent research, that there be a limit to the number of animal studies before it goes into human testing, that we stop trying to create medical and other products with a profit motive and instead using readily available natural healing and preventive medicine, that Americans stop ignoring what others in less wasteful countries of the world are using to promote healing instead of attempting to use one toxin to rid the body of another. I think the complete answer will be a long time coming, but I hope we can agree that waiting until we find a more convenient way, is not the answer. I hope we can see that we can afford to stop much or all of the cruelty right now. Slave owners thought they would perish if they freed their slaves, but when forced to relinquish a better solution was eventually realized. And so were obvious spiritual benefits. I suspect that we would have the same revelation and enjoy great spiritual benefit if we were to quit the cruelty, right now, today. Hsrlee I don’t know the affect that cruelty-free research will have on medical science, but I have seen the look in the eyes of the victims of medical research. I like to use a simple gauge when judging whether something is right or wrong. I use my ESP, emotion/spirit/perception meter and let me tell you, passing by a room where a dog is yelping, pleading very clearly in his language, for mercy, as researchers prepare to put him through yet another abdominal surgery doesn’t feel smart nor right nor fair. In fact, it felt like I, the dog and all witnesses were simultaneously being abused.

I’ve spent even more time in hospital environments where I have seen the healing miracles that this research may produce. Children cured of cancer, hip and knee surgey that restores one to a productive life, and most of humanity has benefited from simple inventions like toothpaste, shampoo, housekeeping products. The list is endless.

I don’t know the best way to deal with this, but I know that if I were that dog about to go under the knife, I would ask that a moratorium be placed on using animals for frivolous and self-indulgent research, that there be a limit to the number of animal studies before it goes into human testing, that we stop trying to create medical and other products with a profit motive and instead using readily available natural healing and preventive medicine, that Americans stop ignoring what others in less wasteful countries of the world are using to promote healing instead of attempting to use one toxin to rid the body of another.

I think the complete answer will be a long time coming, but I hope we can agree that waiting until we find a more convenient way, is not the answer. I hope we can see that we can afford to stop much or all of the cruelty right now. Slave owners thought they would perish if they freed their slaves, but when forced to relinquish a better solution was eventually realized. And so were obvious spiritual benefits.

I suspect that we would have the same revelation and enjoy great spiritual benefit if we were to quit the cruelty, right now, today.

Hsrlee

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