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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Your Lucy is on L/D (that is probably the exact thing my dog would be on in the same situation). So if you found out today that Science Diet and all other companies that made a liver diet were doing cruel and unnecessary testing would you take her off of it and let her suffer? Would you not give the drugs/supplements she is supposed to get just bc an animal was treated cruelly when developing them? Or would you give them and just be forever grateful to the animals that were hurt when developing this for her?
If anybody told me they would stop giving a drug and let their own animal suffer if the test animals were treated cruelly (and this dog really needed the drug/food), I'd say I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't see anybody on YT willing to sign their dogs up for drug trials. I see many posts about reactions and how angry the owner is over it. People are going to be upset when it is their baby.
I'm an ovo-lacto-vegetarian. Never said I completely disagree with consuming animals though.. Put in a position of possible starvation, I would eat them. With the exception of dairy and eggs (because I don't have much will power and love to eat) and leather on shoes, etc., I try to avoid supporting factory farming. I avoid things like Minksheen because it is completely unnecessary and clearly cruel for no good reason. But put in a position of health and safety for myself and my family (including my dogs), then I do accept that animals have to suffer. That does not mean that I want other dogs to suffer. I'm still not boycotting a company for treating animals cruelly "IF" I "HAVE" to use the product for the health or safety of one of us here. |
You brought up an interesting point to me, and I agree. I think we are all at different points on the line of continuum when it comes to what we view as "necessary animal "use". I will not use Mink Sheen or products w mink oil. I do not think a little mink needs to suffer to make leather more pliable or a dog's coat shinier. I do feel bad for the dogs that were used to develop open heart surgery, and I try to channel that bad feeling into a thankfulness that their deaths have saved many lives.
I only eat meat occasionally. For years, I did not eat it at all. I don't see the necessity for animals to be treated the way they are for me to have protein in my diet. Yet I can see how at times science has no other way to get answers of how to save lives. I'm not sure my views are any better than anyone else's. I think an open discussion of this topic between we animal lovers can help us all think a little and examine our beliefs.