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Pet Petition

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Re: Pet Petition

  #17  
Aug 16th, 2007
Originally Posted by joshSCH View Post
What's the difference from killing a dog and killing a bunch of ants?

Mainly, that people tend not to think of ants as being cute.

Originally Posted by joshSCH View Post
What's the difference between slaughtering a pig or using a pig as a test subject for a specific drug.

Because the drug testing might actually provide a useful result. Although I'd be willing to be the groups that claim such would also claim that slaughtering the pig, even for food, was also wrong. I've heard about some group (can't recall who) who've tried to draw a parallel between the food chicken industry and the holocaust.

Originally Posted by joshSCH View Post
If testing drugs on animals can help us find cures for humans.. then why not??


Because they don't want cures for humans.
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