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  • I almost threw up watching these taser tests on pigs

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.

 #97114  by kali o.
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:35 am
Eh, the actual experiment doesn't bother me too much - but I have a hard time finding any scientific value behind the experiment itself that could not have been achieved by less extreme methods (edit: reading a slight clarification on the goals of the study made more sense - the initial link attempts subtle misdirection...PETA propaganda).

 #97116  by SineSwiper
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:38 am
Better than tasering real people and risk killing them. PETA just doesn't seem to understand that if we do as they ask, we will be forced to do these type of tests on real people and raise the death toll.

Of course, PETA only cares about the "cute" animals that make oinking screams, and it betters their case that they show how "human" they look. But, we're testing them because their brains are close to a humans, and because we going to chop them up into bacon anyway.

Face it...we eat meat. We aren't going to stop eating meat. We aren't going to stop experimenting on animals either. We prefer dead pigs to dead humans, and ultimately, so does PETA, but they won't admit it.
kali o. wrote:(edit: reading a slight clarification on the goals of the study made more sense - the initial link attempts subtle misdirection...PETA propaganda).
I love how they link to a Google search form of the article with parts of it highlighted, instead of the original PDF.

 #97122  by Flip
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:11 am
I agree, i eat meat, but i dont torture it first... just rubs me wrong, hard to explain.

 #97123  by Flip
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:14 am
Sine, what is Front Mission 4 about?

 #97127  by Nev
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:58 pm
I do believe in humane treatment of food and fur/leather animals - strongly so. However, until I can convince myself to become vegetarian (which may not happen), I can't go too far overboard on the animal-rights bandwagon.

My charity focus is switching to global warming, anyway - animals have had fairly crappy lives for quite some time, but global warming increasingly has a very big chance of killing all of us (the animals included), so preventing that's what I want to put my energy into.

 #97133  by Flip
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:11 pm
Thats a good way to put it, i too believe in humane treatment of food and fur/leather animals. Human testing wouldnt bother me, atleast we can understand what is going on. I bet there are a ton of people out there who would do it if highly compensated.

 #97143  by Nev
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:11 pm
Man, would that ever be a shitty job..."Human Test Subject".

I guess you could probably find some homeless people who'd go for it...

 #97358  by Flip
 Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:26 pm
Some kids got sued for video taping paid bums fight, i dont think your idea would fly.