To test or not to test?

The Uk government is being taken to court because they don’t fulfill their duty of preventing the suffering of lab animals. Figures even show a rise in animal testing. Scientists said test were necessary to help cure life-threatening diseases. A total of three million procedures were carried out on animals this year, that is a rise of 4% on the precious year. Home Office minister Meg Hillier commented: "Where animal research is the only option, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained." However, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (Buav) announced it was taking the government to the High Court in London on Tuesday over the fate of laboratory animals. Michelle Thew said: "The Home Office is this week charged with ignoring its duty to ensure laboratory animal suffering is kept to a minimum and pulling the wool over the publics eyes about the numbers of experiments that cause substantial animal suffering in laboratories up and down the UK."

I am totally agains animal testing. Millions of animals die in horrible circumstances. The animals did not even had an normal live in a natural environment. Even studies in publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal have repeatedly concluded that because of the fundamental biological differences among species, animal tests do not reliably predict outcomes in humans. So what is the point on testing it on animals. People stay people. Some people committed  horrible crimes and stay in prison for the rest of their lives. Why not test it on them? One thing we know is that the outcome is reliable. Just look in the eyes of the millions of animals that suffer just for an cure that does not even exists! So what do you think?

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6911678.stm#map

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. ... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ―Mark Twain

Deadly Stuffed White Tiger Toy!

Police was alerted by a member of the public who spotted what they thought was an escaped white tiger hiding in a field. They watched the white tiger through the zoom of a camera lens. The police deployed and a helicopter watched the area with thermal imaging cameras. Officers told the press that they responded as if it was a real incident. Even animal specialists were called to help the police out. They send a team with tranquilizer darts to overcome the tiger. The police found out that it was a stuffed animal after the toy rolled over in the down draft from the police helicopter. The police is treating the stuffed toy as lost property but they don’t know how it came there in the field and if it was a joke. 

Haha this story is quite funny. It is a good practice for the special forces. Now they know what to do in a situation like that. It was a good training for the man and women involved in this operation. I love tigers, but most of them move in like half an hour. I guess this happened in a period of time seeing the tiger calling the police, police fixing people and helicopters etc. Well in the mean while the people must have thought that it was strange that the tiger just lay there not moving, not even his head? By the way the police had a helicopter with thermal imaging, they must have seen that the tiger had no temperature of a living creature or am I wrong. Overall I think this story is funny and kudos to the guy who came up to the hoax.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13491268

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Pilot Whales in Danger

Conservationists fear that more pilot whales have the risk of being beached, this after a pilot whale has been found in a Habridean sea loch. A group of about 60 pilot whales had moved from the shallow waters of Loch Carnan, South Uist, and were swimming towards the south away from the shallow waters. Now the British Divers Marine Life Rescue said that the whales are headed back into the shallow waters of the loch. The dangers are that the whales can be stranded on a sandy section of beach at the loch. But there are other dangers, like the rocky coast line, with its many inlets and bays. Volunteers of BDMLR will continue to monitor the whales. 

It is terrible to hear that those precious whales are in danger to get stranded and die. These animals are magnificent and need to be protected. It is great that the volunteers will keep an eye out on the whales, but they need to find a solution so that the animals can return at their natural habitat, I am talking about the deeper waters. Maybe they could use sonar sounds to guide them to deeper waters. It is hard because such gadgets are very expensive. The whales are also in danger to get cuts on their heads because of the boats that pass through those waters. Let’s hope that they find a solution fast.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13488302