enough of this sick slaughters (Animal Testing)

Member Name: pontecaille

Product:	Animal Testing
Date:	02/12/01 (557 review reads)
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First of all. Id like to apologize if this opinion is in the wrong category but after thoroughly looking I thought this was close to the subject being animals but on another matter.

Well I suppose I should have written this opinion a long time ago but for a reason or another I liked to think those behaviours finally vanished from our planet. I am a dreamer of course I am. Such thing cannot get away like that. It is a too good incentive for avid people to make the most of it, meaning money and satisfy their thirst for killing, greed and adrenalin. I am talking here about animal massacres. Such cruelty doesn’t deserve an official name.
It is not a lost cause however. It is an opened debate but not easy to deal with. It is a worldwide concern but Africa is one of the continents the most aimed.

I remember watching many programmes about animal’s mass murder and all of them appalled me, simply afflicting. And most of the time I can assure you I was reconsidering the terrible images seen in the programmes in my sleep so shocking they were but so real.
I read not long ago actually that hunting elephant was reopened in Africa… (and this why it came up in my mind to write something about it) like if the massacre of thousands of pachyderms killed for their ivory were already forgotten!

Many of the hunters responsible for this extinction praised the numerous elephants has to be brought down for the safety of the country but do you really think it is the reason behind those atrocious massacres. I don’t. For me it is simply and purely another excuse to take part in a sick entertainment where money is the main game.

In the Twenties we witnessed the uncontrolled slaughter of wild animals in East Africa, by white hunters and colonists especially; the south of Africa had already lost many of its animals at the beginning of the century because of European excesses. But it doesn’t seem to stop ever. It is a con
tinuous threat and something must be done.

When voices started to rise up more strongly with the extermination of animals we thought of creating parks and reserves and developing a regulation envisaging penalties for the local poachers, like had made the British aristocrats in their own country since centuries. It did help a bit but it didn’t meet the outcome expected. The butchery has been slowed down but it hasn’t been stopped. It is still there. The African natural heritage like any other natural environments must be protected before they get entirely wiped off.

And here we are, the first international effort to begin the debate about the problems dates from 1900, with the Convention for the safeguarding of wild animals, birds and fish of Africa. This text was not constraining but its recommendations had a certain effect on the organization of the reserves; a second international meeting took place in 1933 and made it possible to set up a Convention for the protection of the African flora and fauna.

But one of the major results was the creation of the National Park Serengeti, in 1951, by the colonial authorities, on the territory of what was then Tanganyika; this park became famous in the whole world, in particular thanks to Bernhard Grzimek, one of these Europeans decided to back up rather than to destroy African fauna. According to the authors, Grzimek undoubtedly made more for the backup of African nature than whomever else in history.
Its books were translated in addition to twenty languages, and its film "Serengeti should not die", turned by his/her Michael son, received the Oscar for the Best Documentary one before being distributed in the whole world. I haven’t seen it yet but I intend to. If anyone has some feedback about it please do so, I’ll be more than happy to read what you know.

Many organisations have been created through the whole world with different funds, ideas, but all
with the same ideology: to stop this cruelty. Some have failed because of lack of funds or not enough committed people but many of them are still trying. However they don’t get the recognition they deserve.


I get indignant particularly at the "civilized" people who in this new millennium can inflict such tortures and deaths to animals. They can be nice or famous wild carnivores or man-eaters; none of them deserve such fate!

Yesterday we fought against the exploitation of animals we meet only in zoos or natural parks (wolf, blue fox, panther, tiger, zebra, baby seal, etc…) or considered as plagues (rabbit, fox, mink), today we must fight to save our domestic animals! No you are not misreading. Our beloved domestic pets are also the victims of atrocious slaughters.
Even if in certain countries the dog or the cat is not regarded fully as pets, we should not forget that we must respect them! They are beings as much as we are.

Far is the phrase that used to play in my head when I was a kid when watching programmes on nature: nature is cruel. But it is the normal cycle of life.
Who could be crueler than Man?! All is calculated, well planned, and only with one definite aim: money like always.

I hope I didn’t depress you too much with this topic but it is important to be reminded sometimes of what is going on in the world. There is little we can do. Though signing petitions for preventing wanted extinctions of animals is already a good start, a small contribution but it can change few things. and it is something everyone can easily do.
So don’t be afraid to do it.

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