Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Nobel Paper

When researching my nobel winner I found some interesting information that got me thinking. He studied stem cells in mice. I'm not going to go into detail telling how he did it, if you really want to know that then i'll send you the paper when i'm done and you can read it then. Basically he studied how to give mice cancer and other illnesses so that they can study it from start to death. I am torn in two directions if it's right to do this or not. On one side if it helps them find a cure then hey go for it. On the other hand these are living creatures and who says we have the right to basically kill them. I was talking about this with my sons sitter and she mad a good point. She said that if you believe in the bible and all that God gave humans the right over all animals to do with them what we need to to live, (and cure illnesses). On the other hand if you believe in PETA then we have no right to do this to the mice. However, i have a feeling that the first person that believes in PETA gets cancer they will want them to be researching on mice and testing things to find a cure.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I know about being torn between this subject, I feel so bad for the animals, but how else are they going to learn new things!