“Imagine two people coming home from work at the end of the day. One of them had a horrible day, is in a terrible mood and his dog will not stop barking. He has a blow torch in the garage. So he restrains his dog on the leash, goes out and gets the blow torch, comes back and burns the dog. The second person is a researcher. And she’s presently engaged in the study about the efficacy of various treatments on burns. And she’s returned from a day at the laboratory where she has restrained several dogs and blow torched them in pursuit of her study. The first person had no real purpose for burning his dog that way and he might be charged with causing unnecessary suffering to the dog. The second person will, not only not be charged, she will be protected by her institution, supported by public tax dollars, rewarded with professional recognition if her results get published. And the rest of us, if we ever hear of such things at all, will be assured that the experiment was humane, just as we are assured by agriculture industry spokespeople that all the things I described a moment ago are humane too.” — Lesli Bisgould from her new TED Talk, Its Time to Re-Evaluate Our Relationship with Animals. Watch it at freefromharm.org/animals-and-the-law/lesli-bisgoulds-ted-talk-animal-law-101-everyone-must-watch/
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:04:33 +0000
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