World Day For Animals In Laboratories 2018
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Sheldon completed the test and commented that it was usual and customary for lab rats to receive a food pellet upon successful completion of the maze whereupon Amy told him that the completion culminated in her plucking out the rat's brains with a pair of tweezers.
Today is World Day For Animals In Laboratories (WDAIL) aka known as World Lab Animal Day. Each April 24th the day is observed as part of the surrounding week known as "World Week for Animals In Laboratories" and is held under the auspices of The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) as an "international day of commemoration" for animals in laboratories.
Animal testing has become a contentious issue among animal rights proponents, scientists, and the populace at large. As I personally know, some of these lab animals live a short life in the name of safer product lines and scientific research.
It would seem that animal suffering is beyond that considered necessary or desirable by a large contingent of people upon the earth. Personally, I am not a proponent of the mistreatment of animals for any reason and the concept of animal testings leaves me somewhat ambivalent when I consider the benefits compared to the suffering for the test subjects.
There are a spectrum of opinions regarding animal testing which range from "don't do it at all" to "animals have zero rights and are totally expendable". Thusly, counterpoints will be batted around for quite a while to come BECAUSE ...
Regardless of which side of the fence you find yourself on one thing is sure: SCIENCE WILL CONTINUE so animal experimentation is going to be around pretty much in a parallel time frame; along with those who will actively seek it's cessation — sometimes by extreme means.