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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Even worse is animals being used for medical experiments, not only is the animal put through severe trauma but most of the times the experiment fails as we are different species. If we need to move forward in medicine for cures and I think we do then why not use death row inmates or multiple life sentence criminals? You would get better results and we would not have to pay to feed criminals who have chosen that path and are no longer a use to society.
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There are many reasons we dont use death row inmates for experiments. If you ignore the torture aspect that still leaves us with a few problems.
1. there were a total of 37 executions carried out last year in the US. Thats enough for a few preliminary experiments but not enough for an experimental trial.
2. we still need to do psychiatric experiments, which inmates are completely unsuitable as they are a radical subset which would lead to useless results.
Experiments are necessary, and i know labs today treat the animals the best they can which does sometimes mean the animal is destroyed to end its suffering. I have a friend who does research at the UofC on rats. Without these experiments we wouldn't have even the simplest of modern medicines, our life expectancy would be 40 and we would be living in the dark ages. Our brains grew and evolved over time because we eat meat, I suggest we use them and continue curing diesease thru these experiments.