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13
Apr

TEDTalks Project

By smotto 1 Comment
Categories: TEDTalks project stuff and Homework posts

For the past long while, we have been working on TEDTalks projects about major issues in the world. The topic I chose to do is animal testing. Over 50-100 million vertebrate animals are tested on each year.

Animal testing is not only cruel, but pointless. Just because a product is safe or unsafe to use on animal, doesn’t mean that it’s okay or not okay to use on a human. One of the solutions to animal testing that is going on right now is protesting. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn’t because if people don’t get a response quickly, they will give up.

Another is is donations. Donating on websites like PETA, SPCA, or StopAnimalTests probably can help, but what I don’t understand is where the money would go to help the problem. It goes to research but how does that help it? All it is is educating people about the issue.

Another one is petitions. Petitions could help because if you sign a petition to stop animal testing and then someone hands it in to a company, they could see how many people care about the issue. But just because a bunch of people signed a piece of paper doesn’t mean a top-of-the-line company is going to stop what they’re doing.

The last one I found was laws. There are no actual laws against all types of animal testing, only on testing cosmetic products on animals. Some people say that animal testing could become a regulation in some beauty product manufacturers.

We were told to come up with better solutions of our own. I came up with three. The first one is better protests that go on until results are shown. The second one is boycotting companies that test their products on animals. Boycotting a company is when you don’t buy anything that that company makes. I think this solution could help alot because if enough people do it, it would be really effective and the company would know that people want them to stop testing on animals and won’t buy their products untl they stop.

The last and most effective one that I came up with was new laws against all types of animal testing. If people are caught testing on animals, they should be fined, shut down, or sent to jail. Since there are none like that, I think this would be the most effective solution to animal testing.

That pretty much sums up what my TEDTalks project is about.

*smotto.

22
Jan

TEDTalks Project: Animal Testing: What Is Being Done

By smotto 0 Comments
Categories: TEDTalks project stuff and At School

When I wrote my first blogpost about this topic, we were just sort of doing research about that topic just so we knew that it was for sure what we wanted to do and so we knew what it was and just so we were used to working with it. Now we are actually getting into the project and what it is all about: how to help/stop it.

The first step that we have been told to do is to find what is already being done and what we can do to help it. Once we are done that, we will probably have to think of our own ideas that haven’t already been used. But for now, this is just a piece of what I’ve got:

- Donate money towards websites that are against animal testing (www.peta.org, www.stopanimaltests.com, etc)

- Become a member of a website that needs your support

- Sign petitions that protest against animal testing, companies that support it, etc.

Now that sure isn’t everything, but it’s a start. I didn’t go into all the specific details just yet, but I’m sure I’ll get there and there will definitely be more blogposts coming your way.

 Sara

17
Jan

Animal Cruelty

By smotto 2 Comments
Categories: TEDTalks project stuff, Homework posts and At School

There are many different forms of animal cruelty, like fur trade, abuse, animal testing, and more. I have decided to focus on one that I am interested in: animal testing.

Now before I started researching this topic, I thought it was just things like makeup, and soaps and little things like that. You know, like in the movie Legally Blonde when she protests against a company for testing their beauty products on animals? That’s what I thought it all was. But after even doing just a little bit of researching, I know that it goes so much further than just that.

It is estimated that over 100 million vertebrate animals are tested on around the world every year. An estimated 15-20 million rats and mice are experimented on each year. In the year 2000, over 25 500 cats were used for experimental purposes in the U.S. In 2004, nearly 65 000 dogs were used. Non-human primates are usually used in toxicology tests, studies of AIDS and hepatitis, studies of neurology, behavior and cognition, reproduction, genetics, and xeotransplantation. They are caught in the wild, taken from zoos, circuses and animal trainers, or purpose-bred.

Although i don’t know everything that I can know about this topic, I will be researching more and more over the next while, so expect many more blogposts that are a little more in depth than this one.

Sara