Animal Rights or Animal Welfare?

[kurgan]

In the UK the animal rights extremists are generally worse than your side of the pond.
The regulations re: animal research are significantly stricter in the UK. Research animals are documented from birth onwards making it much much harder for that sort of thing to happen. The flip side however is that there is no possibility for a lab beagle to have a happy retirement as a family pet - they will spend all their life in insitutional care.

[Ginevive]

My animals should go on welfare! I am tired of supporting them, the lazy little suckers..!
Wait, that wasn't really funny... ::runs and hides::

[Shadowspider]

My animals should go on welfare! I am tired of supporting them, the lazy little suckers..!
Wait, that wasn't really funny... ::runs and hides::

One of my husband's cousins tried to get his animals on welfare...and claim them on his taxes...he almost got away with it too. :eek:

In the spirit of the quoted post (to which I found tremendously funny) I think that all animals should have the rights to demand welfare.

[ReptileFan]

Hello,

I have recently joined the site and am very excited about it. Anyway to the point.... Mendel, earlier in this post you claimed that human organs such as a kidney have not yet been able to be cloned in most cases you are correct. However a recent scientific discussed how a man, his name escapes me, recently GREW a bladder. what he did is selected several cells from deep inside a regeular human bladder and then he grew them around the mold of a bladder, he eneded up with a fully functioning bladder and had i put into severa people who had malfunctioning bladders alll had increased bladder funcion toa degree

Ty

[Mendel's Balls]

Hello,

I have recently joined the site and am very excited about it. Anyway to the point.... Mendel, earlier in this post you claimed that human organs such as a kidney have not yet been able to be cloned in most cases you are correct. However a recent scientific discussed how a man, his name escapes me, recently GREW a bladder. what he did is selected several cells from deep inside a regeular human bladder and then he grew them around the mold of a bladder, he eneded up with a fully functioning bladder and had i put into severa people who had malfunctioning bladders alll had increased bladder funcion toa degree

Ty

Your right...I've heard about this.....If I get time I might try to dig up something on this.....I mentioned this before when I mentioned tissue engineering. I was a part of PTEI.

A bladder isnt a kidney though (kidneys are much more complex) However, The developments in bladder regeneration are exciting. There are also a lot of exciting things going on with cardiomyocytes--using them to heal hearts.

Even with the development of organs in vitro.....organs are not organ systems.......we'd still need animal research. It will be quite awhile before we can do away with animal research.

[Ginevive]

One of my husband's cousins tried to get his animals on welfare...and claim them on his taxes...he almost got away with it too. :eek:

In the spirit of the quoted post (to which I found tremendously funny) I think that all animals should have the rights to demand welfare.

Wow; here in Ny state, he probably would have gotten away with it.. it is the welfare state, after all.

[ReptileFan]

O god i know kindeys are very hard imagine a heart lol but i really dont think its far off i was just responding because someone (i dont think it was you now that i think lol) had said growing organs had not been done and was decades away. that is false . also skin has been grown in labs which is by definition an organ but i cant wait till we can grow hearts so many lives will be saved



edit : wow sry kinda big run on i do that lol like now