Hello 🙂 No, I do not! My research involves looking at bacteria from patients that as very sick from the hospital, and I also look at bacteria that grow around peoples’ households. I don’t harm animals. Honestly, I think my heart would break if I had to harm them!
The work we do doesn’t harm animals, in fact, some of the stuff we’re studying might one day help animals who accidentally get poisoned by pesticides on big farms and properties.
It’s an interesting point, because sometimes testing new medicines on animals is the only choice. As long as it’s done humanely, making sure the animals are comfortable, I think it’s okay. We just need to keep a close eye out to make sure the animals are getting the respect they deserve.
We had chickens in our lab for a while and we took some blood samples from them., but that was about it. They are happily running around now at the vet school at our uni since we are finished with them!
If you mean, do I experiment on animals and have to kill them for my job? Then the answer is yes. I don’t like doing it (as no one who does this likes this aspect of their work) But I can see that the ‘harm’ I do to mice has a higher purpose as it is trying to work out cures for diseases that sometimes kill people. (Like anaphylaxis Peanut allergy, stomach cancer from Helicobacter pylori infections). But we are required by Research Animal Ethic Committees (of which I am a member) to make sure it is a good reason and that we are doing it with the minimal stress to the animal while they are helping us with our experiments. We are also encouraged to use cell culture models we can grow in the lab incubators too instead. But some diseases (like Malaria) need to be studied in live animals so we can work out cures for humans that get the disease.
I do not condone the use of animals to test cosmetics in any way as this is not really ‘benefiting’ the human race!
Hello 🙂 No, I do not! My research involves looking at bacteria from patients that as very sick from the hospital, and I also look at bacteria that grow around peoples’ households. I don’t harm animals. Honestly, I think my heart would break if I had to harm them!
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Hi mhind27!
The work we do doesn’t harm animals, in fact, some of the stuff we’re studying might one day help animals who accidentally get poisoned by pesticides on big farms and properties.
It’s an interesting point, because sometimes testing new medicines on animals is the only choice. As long as it’s done humanely, making sure the animals are comfortable, I think it’s okay. We just need to keep a close eye out to make sure the animals are getting the respect they deserve.
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Nope, I work on bacteria only!
We had chickens in our lab for a while and we took some blood samples from them., but that was about it. They are happily running around now at the vet school at our uni since we are finished with them!
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No animals are harmed by me : )
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If you mean, do I experiment on animals and have to kill them for my job? Then the answer is yes. I don’t like doing it (as no one who does this likes this aspect of their work) But I can see that the ‘harm’ I do to mice has a higher purpose as it is trying to work out cures for diseases that sometimes kill people. (Like anaphylaxis Peanut allergy, stomach cancer from Helicobacter pylori infections). But we are required by Research Animal Ethic Committees (of which I am a member) to make sure it is a good reason and that we are doing it with the minimal stress to the animal while they are helping us with our experiments. We are also encouraged to use cell culture models we can grow in the lab incubators too instead. But some diseases (like Malaria) need to be studied in live animals so we can work out cures for humans that get the disease.
I do not condone the use of animals to test cosmetics in any way as this is not really ‘benefiting’ the human race!
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