Three Little Piggies...Sad as can be :(

In Biology this week we have been studying Animal Biotechnology . We have reviewed the concerns and benefits of Animal Biotechnology and it's applications and based on that information I have formed my own opinion , which is represented in this political cartoon. 

The Cost of a Humane Hamburger

Have you ever experienced excruciating pain? Have you ever expereinced the moment when you suddenly realize that the pain you were in has ceased? Being able to feel pain, not only allows us to learn how to prevent ourselves from self-inflicted pain, but it also allows us to feel the happiness and sensation that occurs when pain fades or disappears. If we could not feel pain, we would have the potential to injure ourselves without meaning to (much more frequently than we already do) but it would also prevent us from being able to recognize and relax in the knowledge of comfort, because we would not have anything to compare comfort to.

Researchers say that due to advancements in genetic technology, it may soon be a possibility that animals can be genetically altered so as not to feel pain. With these advancements in place, animals on factory farms would be breed so that they do not feel pain when raised in conditions of suffering. Researchers are beginning to see this as a potential option since factory farms cannot be persuaded to raise animals in more humane/ gentle environments.

Personally, I disagree with the suggestions to create animals that do not feel pain. Animals were not created by God to be insensitive to pain. God created them with apt pain tolerences and I do not believe that the pain tolerence of an animal is something that we should be tampering with. I feel that the solution to the problem of factory farms is to decrease the consumption of meat in the USA as well as build up family farms who are raising livestock in humane ways that don't require the use of genetic technology to alter animals.