
After about 3 kms, I noticed a group of people protesting with hoardings and placards. Their theme was “Stop animal testing”. It sounds very nice theme. Many people will feel for those animals and would like to go along with the idea and would like to save those animals. I think all these people protesting against animal testing must be vegetarian. Otherwise, it would be hard to hold the board of “Do not test on my friend”, and in the evening order ” Beef ribs” or “Chicken Satay”!. Another interesting one is protest against “Fur”. In this case many ladies will go naked to protest against “fur”. It would be good to find ” anti-porn” and “women objectification” protestants on the other side of the road. We can notice many other such protests as well. Some examples are “Stop killing animals”, “Stop cutting trees, say no to plastic”, “Stop genetic modified foods”, “Stop using pesticides” and many others. They are good thoughts and they have motives. Most of the times they will share the data on how things are bad because of the issues they are protesting. However, I have missed to notice solutions at such protests.

I was thinking what is the alternative to animal testing for medicine? Does it mean that we start doing testing on humans? Do we have enough people ready to be test bodies? If we agree to do it, then won’t those humanitarian organisations will start protests? Or may be we start taking drugs without any tests. Will that be ok? What else? Another possibility may be we start with those synthetic testing. We already have some such techniques. No wonder we are not ready to accept those testing too. As then we say that it is not close enough testing. We already have group against genetic engineering and its effect. Are we ready to believe now that computer organ or organ-on-chip has all the complexity of human being? So what else? May be someone who knows of some other better way can leave a comment.

I think, for us humans, we should move forward towards common goals rather than standing on opposite sides. That way we might be able to find better ways together and bring smiles to everybody.
Keep smiling
Arundeep