Let’s Play God
What if a group of mad scientists abduct your family dog and decide to inject your beloved pet with chemicals and diseases it was never meant to have? Then these “scientists” observe and watch your dog suffer and die from what they have done, making this animal’s life seem like nothing more than an eighth grade science fair project. What sounds like something out of a sick, twisted horror movie, scientists are calling genetic engineering.
Genetic Engineering allows scientists to alter the genetic makeup of animals; therefore these scientists have taken it upon themselves to “play God”. Who or what gives the right to any human being to take it upon them to alter anything’s natural life course? Scientists have altered the lives of mice, rabbits, sheep, goats, pig, cattle, chickens, and different types of fish. These animals are being purposely created with gross deformities and forced into a life of suffering and untimely death. Hundreds and thousands of genetically engineered animals are produced every year, only to be indirectly slaughtered by the hands of their human creators.
Mice are the most commonly altered animals. In one experiment with these animals’ lives, scientists in the United States have produced a strain of engineered mice which develop cancer in the lens of the eye. The eye is one of the few parts of the body which does not naturally develop cancer, only making this experiment more pointless and absurd. The lenses of the mice eyes have been replaced by tumors at the age of two months. The tumors continue to grow until they burst out of the lens capsules and destroy what’s left of the eye. These mice usually develop canc ...