Animal testing is barbaric!

[lestatdark]

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lestatdark said:

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Jay520 said:
Animals are disgusting IMO

They are not! In a way, slavery also still exists in the world today! Horses and other animals are used as slaves, and I believe that's a form of animal testing. They're testing these animals will, and one day these animals are going to flip out on mankind. It's really sad seeing a horse pull a huge wagon with some sick idiot whipping him with a steel rod, and sometimes even stabbing them with those star things on the ends of their boots.

Animals are beings of lower biological order, their life isnt as important as a human life. Would you rather have all the medical drugs tested on humans and have them dead sickened?

Lower biological order? In whose's scale, yours? 

Because if you're talking in strict biological terms, humans are pretty low on the biological scale. We're not macro-producers nor are we on the top of any kind of food chain (as there are animals that hunt humans for food). If you're talking about rational order, then that has nothing to do with any kind of biological measure. 

Also, funny thing regarding humans, we're one of the few species in the biological kingdom that has no biological function for any other species. Kinda like locusts but able to do 2+2 in our brains.

Intelligence + dominance+ power+ reason + compassion + advancement, top on food chain (yes, humans can hunt down and kill any animal of any species they want) = humans are most valueable living beings on planet, and are thus superior to animals.

Human arrogance at it's best.

Top of the food chain? What's your definition of food chain? Because for an animal to be at the top of the food chain, it can't have any natural predator. Like Killer Whales are the top predator of the oceans. You're confusing sports hunt with food hunting, which are two different concepts. 

As for intelligence that's the only point in which humans are superior to any other animal species, but why would you add compassion to it? Humans are amongst the least compassionate animal species in the planet. It's scientifically proven that communities of mammals suchs as Dolphins and Canines, inter and intra-species compassion is much higher than in any other animal. 

Again, humans are not the most valuable living being on the planet. Humanity and the entire human species could dissapear from the face of the earth in a instant and the earth and every other species would continue on living.

If anything, the most valuable species in the planet are a throw down between Cyanobacteria and the innumerous species that compose Zooplancton and Fitoplancton, the true macroproducers of the world. If they were to dissapear, all life on earth would die in a matter of weeks, maybe one or two months, as nutrients in the ground would cease to renew, plants would wither and die and animals would follow suit. 

Don't place humanity in a pedestal. We're the most intelligent species that's true (and we missuse the capacities that we have so much, that I doubt that we're even that intelligent) but other than that we contribute almost nothing to the earth per se.