A website was brought to my attention today, and I cannot even say with words how it really made me feel. I guess angered, saddened and sickened would be a good start though. This place is advertising that they'll buy stray animals, to use them as test subjects. Basically saying, that it's much better for these animals to sacrifice their bodies/lives to benefit medical science to save human lives, than to sit in shelters unadopted or be euthanized. Well forgive me, but these animals do have a chance at adoption, and at least with them being PTS if it happens, it's a quick an painless process. They don't suffer along the way over long periods or have their bodies slowly shut down as people sit and watch them suffering, documenting what is happening to them.
Not sure how much good it'll do, but I'm going to be contacting them to $*^@# em out big time. I feel sick to my stomach after seeing it.
I'd love to give these people a taste of their own medicine, see how willing they'd be to sacrifice their own bodies and even lives. Even better, see how they feel about having no say in the matter, and having somebody nominate them for the position.
Now I'm all for the advancement in medical discoveries, but I cannot condone this, and will not. I guess it could be worse though, at least they aren't using the animals (at least not openly admitting it) for test subjects for make-up or other such nonsense.
I was going to post the link to the site but thought better of it, wanting to make sure it is ok before I went ahead. Admin/mods please let me know if it is ok to do so or not. If not, no biggie, at least I was able to get this off of my chest.