Read our featured interview with our featured Animal Ambassador for May 2104: NEAVS (New England Anti-Vivisection Society): Can you talk about how technology is affecting the transition towards the eradication of nonhuman animals being used in research? AA: The area of alternatives is frankly huge. I would refer you to our website for an answer to this (neavs.org). The new technologies are what are allowing us to see what poor science the animal model is. How inaccurate it is. Limited, flawed, even dangerous. From MRIs to sophisticated computer simulations, to bench in vitro methods…it is all happening…and it will replace the use of animals, the only method in science that still is held on to despite how shoddy it is. Think of it: the computer you buy today, the smartphone you bought yesterday, will be replaced by better models with more capabilities in less than a year. The economics of the electronic industry keeps companies perfecting. We need a parallel universe when it comes to the technologies that can and will replace living animals. Somebody has got to get rich, very rich. And that’s fine when it means an end to so much senseless suffering and death. The universe herself would breathe a sigh of relief if one day the cries of the animals were silenced by the hum of some new gismos gadget that could in fact find those cancer genes, that artery blockage, those fat cells and electronically or chemically knock them out. Sci-fi? Not at all. Tomorrow’s science? Not at all. Advances like these are real and are happening today. They are the great hope for the animals.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 23:22:49 +0000
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