ADVENTIST COLLEGE ALLOWING ILLEGAL ANIMAL TESTING ON CAMPUS!
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As a Seventh-day Adventist, I’m totally pissed at Atlantic Union College (Adventist Owned School) for allowing illegal animal tests to continue on their campus. As a Church we should be supporting a progressive agenda that does not include tourturing animals for no reason whatsoever. AUC should do as PETA asks and end these needless experiments once and for all.
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Please give AUC a bit of a break on this one. They are renting the building, not conducting the animal testing. They are no more responsible for DaVinci’s actions than a landlord who rents to an otherwise-upstanding drug user or copyright infringer. Almost certainly the college has a contract with the corporation that neither party can back out of easily, making swift action not an option.
Also, if you read the article, the only thing alleged illegal about the testing is that the building inspector believes the area to be zoned residential, which seems like a mistake considering the building was a factory and on a college campus.
PETA is right to address its concerns with the local government and DaVinci. Bringing AUC into it seems a bit heavy handed.
For the record, I’m also a Seventh-day Adventist and my father and uncle, like so many Adventist conscientious objectors, were used as in human trials by the US military. I believe if we are going to continue allowing human testing (which seems essential to further medical science), we also need to continue animal testing, but ensure both humans and animals are treated ethically.
Adventists are retarded… if they claim to be somehow following the bible, they would know killing animals for no reason is not supported in the bible.
And to think that I am taking bible studies from an Adventist, and this is one of the first things I read about you guys when I searched on you guys, great work. CANCELLED BIBLE STUDIES!
If this is about responsibility and leadership, and not about money, then AUC should have told their tenants what is allowed under the zoning, and what is not. Even in your example of a drug dealer, the landlord might not be responsible for it, but any responsible landlord would let the authorities know if their tenant is selling crack, as well as probably evicting the tenant. If the landlord knew about the illegal activity and did not take any action, the landlord might not be doing anything illegal, but you can’t hold him completely uninvolved.
Also, from an ethical standpoint, Product Testing on animals is unecessary and does nothing more than creating unnecessary suffering for animals. Ellen White wrote extensively on causing unnecessary suffering to animals, and nothing about it seems very positive. If AUC and Adventists in general actually care about anything except their bank accounts, the proper thing to do is for AUC to end the testing as soon as possible.
Way to go, Giovanni. Making a big deal out of an issue that has nothing to do with anybody’s salvation and the devil used you to end someone’s bible studies.
However there are also good things that come from testing on animals. Many vaccines and cures have been found through testing on animals. While many cures or vaccines have been the result of human testing, the breakthroughs and beginning steps start with animals. Why animals? Because animals are the closest thing to humans that we have. Let’s face it, if we started testing on humans and humans were dying, that would be more inhumane than testing on animals and would probably be called murder. In the end that leaves us with a choice, stop testing on animals and switch to humans, or stop testing period and end up with no cures, no vaccines, and if we do send products out we end up killing more people. Sure allot of the antibiotics and vaccines we have out have negative effects on people, but so does drinking too much water. There is a positive and negative for everything. And come on, most tests are done on rats, mice, chickens, and so on. There are more chickens than people in the world, so I think they can afford a few losses. Either way testing on animals is a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. If you do, you’ll have allot of people mad at you and maybe some extremists, if we don’t then we probably won’t find cures. Plus remember 28 Days Later? The activists let out the monkeys and pretty much destroyed the population of the UK.