Lab animals - Their of tale of despair

I closed my eyes and turned my face as the teacher demonstrated the dissection of a frog for some yet another experimental procedure.This was n't the first time I was watching an animal being dissected,infact I have performed dissections on cadavers too, but the sight of the poor, living, frog kicking its legs in despair and writhing in agony as it is malhandled while being transferred from tank to tank before being anesthetized is just too much to watch. It once happened that a frog my friend was dissecting regained conciousness in mid dissection and started kicking its legs,splashing water from the dissection dish all over the place !!!!

Teachers and scientists argue that the dissections are for an educational purpose and that " the use of a few little animals provides us with the knowledge to save the lives of many" but I still feel that the act of using alive organisms for dissections is inhuman and cruel.What possible crime or sin have those poor 'lower class' of living organisms done to deserve being split open or experimented upon ? Does being born with far greater intellect and curiosity than those creatures give man the right to use them for its most inhuman desires ? They are the creations of God as equally as we are.

Flipping through the pages of any Textbook of Physiology,Kinesiology, toxicology etc you will find numerous examples and cases where dogs are given pain stimulants, a tachycardia is induced,viruses are injected or even kidneys are clamped !. Yes, I am a medical student and I know that these experiments have given us valuable treasures of information and knowledge that has helped in the progress of Science and sparked a plethora of ground breaking revelations and researches.But thats not it , over the centuries man has grown to be sadistic.The lust for superiority in knowledge has overshadowed and taken over his more compassionate side.What his 'experimental subjects',as scientists say, go through to satiate their appetite for knowledge is lesser of their concerns and they now dissect, operate,slash, electrocute,imprison and toxicate animals without even the slightest trace of remorse or compunction.

Today man is using animals, next it may start trading the poor, unprivileged cast of people to experiment upon!! for lust has no end, it just grows indefinitely !!

P.S- Feel free to comment on ways to continue scientific reasearch without the use of animals. I have a few ideas in mind which I may be posting soon . Till then, adios !

Health aid - A solution ?

There is so much I want to do and so many thoughts I want others to listen too. I want to save the world from environmental hazards, I want to open schools for the uneducated, I wish I could give evry homeless a shelter , every jobless a job and go to every town and village to teach people about mutual respect and tolerance. I wish I could be in Africa and Arctic at the same time so that I could both save the penguins and the kwashiorkor plagued societies simultaneously.

I know what I said would be a shocker to many of my friends who think I dont volunteer for the Patient Welfare Association in my college because I dont feel for humanity and am too selfish. The reality is that I think that simply giving free medicines to the poor is not an end to human sufferings. As they say, if you give a man a fish, you feed him fora day, but if you teach a man how to fish , you feed him for a lifetime.In exactly the same way, giving medicines to the poor free of cost is a really good way to ease their worries but it is in no way a permanent solution because the underlying question is - For how long can those people be expected to rely on others aid to fulfill their basic requirements ?

Problems like poverty, malnourishment and illiteracy prevalent in Pakistan need long term planning and a far sighted vision. Educating the underprivileged masses and giving them technical skills so that they may earn themselves or find better oppurtunities for themselves is s solution which will not only alleviate povertyand illiteracy but will also provide a labour force eager to bacome an active component of the economy especially in such a time of an international economic crisis.

A brain which has n't been educated, trained or rather polished in the metaphoric sense is like a blank page and is crude. Firstly, it can't think of solutions on its own and secondly neither can it reason or differentiate between right and wrong.

Speaking about the first instance, a person who cant think properly, or in a systematic, educated way cant find solutions to overcome the troubles in his/her everyday life like unemployment by generating enough money to sustain him/herself. Education opens vistas of ideas otherwise locked and sealed in such people.

Secondly the inabilty to differentiate between right and wrong leaves such people in a precarious and vulnerable situation. Such people can easily be brainwashed and used to advantage by not only people like feudal lords but terrorist organisations who I think induct such people beacuse they can easily be brainwashed and led to believe that the evil plans these oraganisations devise are actually very holy !!

Health aid and charity is an excellent way of helping humanity, and I am not against it, all I'm trying to say is that education is a 'long term' solution which will alleviate poverty and other long standing problems. I'm not an economist or a crisis manager but I dpn't think there is anything unpractical in my ideas .I think we need to invest the most in a sound education and awareness plans beacuse no plans by the govt or charity by the public can have any effect until the masses are awakened from their slumber of illiteracy and brought to the light of education

Niche

Change is a rule of life , its a phenomena that functions as a principle of this universe, and all those who live in this universe are supposed to order their lives with it i.e either keep changing or adapt to the changes. Thats the key of survival .Some people are quick to adapt changes and they ,if you observe closely, are those who prosper. All top businessmen and entreprenueurs are those who are at pace with the rapid changes in society, they are those who are far ahead of the normal people , making space for themselves in the future while we the ordinary people strive to leave behind our past and stabilize our present.....

Hoorah

Ya ! okay so this is the first time i have actually found the time to sit for a little while and blog a bit.How is it that I managed to get time you ask ? and I solemnly reply " Bcuz I just got over with an exam and have a months break, what are you thinking from your GIT ??"...Sorry about that,i'm just a little crampy these days.. i mean why wouldn't I be ?, I worked like an ass on my anatomy but ended up screwing everything up !!! But hey , I'm just glad that exams are over and I'm free again like a metastatic cancer cell !!!! Oh ! my god I'm even talking anatomy now ! (See, I really worked hard)