(Editor’s note: Dear Cornell and other universities/big pharma; stop wasting our tax dollars or anyone’s money and experimenting on animals to “cure cancer” or “eradicate disease” as you put it. Not gonna happen. Doing experiments on dogs and having them born in vitro fertilization is not going to cure anything. And preserving the breed?! Really? Haven’t the beagles suffered enough at your hands for animal vivisection which is proven not to work? We can eradicate many diseases but not via your antiquated, outdated, and backward barbaric ways.)
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According to a British medical research charity, humans love dogs more than other humans. The group staged two contribution campaigns, one for dog and the other for people, and found that the contribution for dogs received more money than the contribution for humans. 1
However, a study out of Northeastern University seemed to confirm that “…we are moved the most by the suffering of puppies and children,” 2 and that we have more empathy for battered dogs than abused humans:
This is perhaps because we feel like animals are more helpless than humans and less able to defend themselves. And perhaps because we feel they are far more innocent than the majority of humans we know.
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Interesting. What do you think?
