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My Yes/No question is:
Are some creatures such as a rat, a pigeon, and so on becoming good diagnosticians or doctors for human in the future?
My answer is:
Yes, they are. Although I have ever heard about some animals like worms, fish and the like can help treat some of the people’s diseases, I am still surprised about the ability to diagnose or treat human’s sickness by different kinds of animal, particularly trained animals for medicine. They are smarter than they look and what I think. Many areas in Bangkok are the place where rats or pigeons live and forage. Almost everyone, including I, view them as dirty or pathogen-carrying animals. When I have to walk through a big flock of pigeons on the street, I must hold my breath for a while and use my hand to protect my nose and mouth because someone used to tell me that some pathogens from them can make people get severe sick or even die after contacting or breathing them in.
The research and discovery in this news have demonstrated good instances of creatures’ superior ability to bring about astonishing benefits to human in the aspect of medical science. Even though some are small animals with a pretty tiny brain, they can trigger big changes for the method of diagnosis and treatment in the future. Specifically, the approaches in the news or future ones can be applied for medicine in poor countries where they have not good medical equipment enough for such activities. It can help save cost reasonably due to a little or no requirement of advanced equipment. Unlike chemical-relating or radioactive therapy, treatment or diagnosis by animals seems also safer if we control and apply them appropriately. Finally, it would also be great if we can detect much illness quickly by animals, saving more lives.
I believe our world is getting luckier to find that the skill and ability of creatures are so amazing that such animals are becoming our doctors.
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I'm afraid Feem has not persuaded me to see the rats scurrying around Silom Road as any more attractive. But I used to like the rats we used in my science classes in high school, although they got treated pretty awfully. In fact, I think looking back that high school biology teachers used to let kids do things that were pretty awful. On the other hand, is killing a rat in a cruel science experiment any worse than killing the vermin laden rats on the street?
ReplyDeleteAnd there is the whole issue of killing animals to eat them, a very popular activity for people with money, who typically pay others to kill animals for them, as if ordering others to kill for you made you somehow not responsible for the animal deaths. That is wrong: if you pay to eat meat, you are responsible for killing animals because paying for it orders the killing of more animals.
"The pigeon will see you now" is a great title for the story.
ReplyDeleteI agree with mr Peter. Animals have hearts, just like us. I still believe that it is immoral to kill animals regardless of the purposes. Even if it is for scientific or educational purpose, it is also wrong to kill, hurt or even take them as guinea pigs. They have feelings but they only cannot express them out in words. Not only that, the use of guinea pig in laboratory such as rats, monkey or even insects should be limited. Although it is significant for humanity to develop research and chase after ways to cure newly-born sickness, we still need to consider about these guinea pigs - make them suffer as little as possible and also reward them with food they like before the end of their lives. Thus, animals' lives should not be wasted. Let them survive or let them die (peacefully) with benefit to humanity.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea that we should treat animals before they die as much as we can in order to let them die peacefully.
DeleteBy the way, I think that schools or universities which kill animals in order to education purpose are better than butchers or normal people who kill them to sell or just individual satisfaction.
As your concern, The ethics for using animal in research are much stricter than in the past, and now we have a lot more of alternatives compared to those day in the past; therefore, the use of animals is decreasing. Even some don't agree with Non's idea, they were forced to do so.
DeleteWhen I have studied physiology and used some animal for education in the laboratory. We all do it with respect. Finally, we do have a ceremony by making merit in Buddhism customes and showing the thankful feeling to those which sacrifice their lives for us.
Non's comment suggests that it is wrong, that it is immoral, to eat meat, since eating it normally means killing or paying someone else to kill the animal whose tasty flesh we want to enjoy, but which we do not need to eat for any nutritional purpose.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for every interesting comment on my post. In fact, reading Animal Farm inspired me to think of the news about animal in order to write in the opposite way, the positive side between creatures and humans.
ReplyDeleteP.S. the topic about morality for eating meat or the similar ones is always debatable. Great! It is worth seeing different ideas and opinion.
Yes, they are. As there are many rats, pigeons and many other creatures involved in the experiment already, they would really be good help for the future medications. They are used to test or experiment under some conditions that humans are not necessary needed to be sacrificed. Also that medicine can also damage the cells or organisms, it should be tested before it is officially distributed to human beings.
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