I don't know any other way to say this without sounding like a nut from PETA, but I'm completely against this, just read the quote.
First, Ivan Pavlov would sever a dog's esophagus and sew the loose ends to its throat, leaving a pair of adjacent holes that connected, by separate passages, to its mouth and stomach. Then he'd slice through the dog's abdomen, carve a hole in the wall of its stomach, and stitch open another permanent wound.
The dog, left hungry from the night before, would be harnessed to a wooden stand and presented with a bowl of raw meat. No matter how much it ate, it never got full—the dog chewed and swallowed, but the masticated meat would erupt from its esophageal opening and dribble back into the bowl, whereupon the dog would lap it up all over again. In the meantime, a glass tube attached to the animal's stomach opening allowed its gastric secretions to drip into a collecting bottle, so they could be filtered, analyzed, and sold to the public as a remedy for dyspepsia.
All performed on a live and probably healthy Dog, this is absolutely Inhumane and should not be allowed. I don't give a flying fuck if we're the most advanced and mightiest on the Earth, torturing animals in this way is absolutely uncalled for. We're like them mostly, we live, we eat, we survive. Read it all, or skim the good parts, I don't care.These procedures should be done on dead subjects, taking live healthy subjects and abusing them so is just not worth it.
Please note that although I do not agree with such treatment, I do think that Medical Science needs to be allowed to use animals for research, but not living/healthy ones.
Discuss.
Edited by Durandel, 11 June 2009 - 02:56 AM.