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Showing posts with label dogs and science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dogs and science. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2010

The use of dogs for research purposes

It was estimated that the population of dogs in the world today has 120 to 150 million. In the United States is home to around 35 million dogs in France - 7-8, Germany - 5-6, Italy - 4, in Belgium - 1 million in Switzerland - 400 000 thousand. Not all of them easy to live. Many were thrown ungrateful masters or victims of inattentive drivers, and scientific experiments. Goethe, Schiller, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Shaw and Malaparte, along with many other philosophers, scientists and journalists were in their work against such practices. In his books, Jerome K. Jerome, O'Henry, D'Annunzio, Ada Negri, Grazia Deledda, Thomas Mann, Jack London, Katherine Mansfild, John Steinbeck, Michael Zoshchenko and Eric Knight expressed his appreciation and love for dogs.

Despite the fact that public opinion is firmly set against experiments on animals, the goats annually to 100 million animals, 100 thousand of them - the dogs. Needed less ambiguous laws and closer monitoring of the experiments, implemented in the name of science.