This animated portrayal of factory farming issues and I guess partly a spoof on The Matrix may be of
interest to some
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Anyway, what movie or music or other celebrities do you know of who strongly support improved
conditions for animals? In a recent post by me mentioning Sarah McLachlan on alt.gossip.celebrities,alt.showbiz.gossip,alt.music.s-
mclachlan someone followed up just on her group saying well how can she support both breast cancer
research and improved conditions for animals, and that in a similar predicament Melissa Etheridge
removed her support for PETA since it does not like use of animals in any medical research even
for cancer.
I said that probably Sarah balances things somehow, you would have to ask her, and that Ms.
Etheridge probably does not give up all her support for improving conditions for animals, just the
point that some medical research involving animals may still be unavoidably necessary.
However I also replied that some options to using live pain-sensitive and aware animals in cancer
research would be to :
1. culture cells and even whole organs and test drugs on cancers induced in those
2. using genome research, we should be able to do computer simulations of the effect of drugs to
some extent
3. of course the goal is cures and once we find those there will be no need for animal
research any more
4. animals could be genetically engineered to have no pain response, and used as a short term
measure still
5. some babies are born effectively without brains and some animals could be genetically engineered
to similarly have little or no brains (and hopefully no pain response) and used in animal
research even if they have to be on a little life support.
What other options have been brought up by PETA members and others on talk.politics.animals ? I
guess I will do a quick search on groups.google.comgroups.google.comOpen ↗ now for group:talk.politics.animals
cancer but don't have time to go through it and summarize on this thread tonight but maybe one
of you will.
David nfld.com~daltonOpen ↗ (science, Newfoundland music, mystic stuff)