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Vol. XXI, No. 3
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What medical science is doing ?
Unfortunately the principle of hierarchy of life has erupted violence in many forms Medical science also is not untouched. in fact, its very base is on this concept that human being are the superiour resulting the ruthless killing of innocent creatures. li has felt free to use any method what so ever against the innocent for our survival. What medical science is doing on the name of good of human being can be seen as : In 1 71 only following nos, of animals were killed in American laboratories-monkeys-852830, Pigs 466240. Goat--22691, Tortoise- 180000, Dogs --- 500000, Rabits700000, Hyenas-200000, Mice40000000, Frogs-15 to 20 lac. (in 1980 some three crore'). All of this in the name of welfare science, how strange it sounds ? Mind it, the medicines we are using are the outcome of the research on these innocent creature. The capsule we are taking in the shape of life saving drug or vitamins are made of jiletin, and jiletin is made from the bones, foot and tissues of animals. 10
A Bombay based pharmaceutical company 'Franko' is manufacturing Dey oranje' with the collaboration of a French Farmceutical company is using 95% blood of slaughtered animals in the name of hemoglobin up. More than a lac of animals are slaughtered at Devnor, Bombay, Asia's biggest slaughter house. 11 Innocents are becoming violent in the name of science
In India, every school and college uses frogs for its biology classes In 1956, 2.6 m. were dissected and thrown a way. In 1980, 18 m. were slaughtered. In 1987 Indian schools alone were responsible for 20 m. frog deaths in the interest of science for the 14 year old. Some school do not only use frogs. They use cars and dogs supplied to them by the city corporation animal catchers. 12 The only fault of this great protecter of crops is that of his anatomic similarties to the mankind and an animal whose only fault is that no owns'' it, is delivered to a school laboratory to be ex, erimented on by children, leading to a consumerestic attitude. Says Randoll Lockwood director of higher education programmes for the Human Society of the United States that carving up a frog dosn't teach a student to think inquisitively. It teaches him/her that living things are just commodities that can be cut up and thrown out at the end of a class A Little crusader
In April 1987 Jennifer Graham of victorville, California, made international headlines when she refused to participate in the frog dissection required by her high school biology class. She argued
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