What was once cute and fluffy but became a bloody, rotten mess?.
You guys give up yet? The answer to this riddle is an animal that has undergone chemical testing. I know that that wasn't funny, but I needed some sort of attention grabber. Animals are abused everyday of our lives, and right now, 100's are being tortured and killed around the world. You'd be lying if you said you'd never witnessed an act of cruelty towards an animal. But what I want to know is what did you do about it? Stop it or forget about it? There are so many problems in our world; why does animal cruelty have to be one of them? .
The question on animal testing was posed as early as the 17th century. Rene Descartes", who you've probably all heard of before, believed that because animals can't reason like we can, why should they be able to suffer. I disagree, and so did Jeremy Bentham because to him, the idea of reasoning was irrelevant on the issue whether animals should be tested. He said "The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But could they suffer?" Soon afterwards, animal experimentation and around the 1930's testing cosmetics on animals started after a woman became blind and died after eye cosmetics literally burned her eyes. It was then that the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was then passed to protect the public and resorted to animals for testing.
Each one of you has probably walked into a pet store and saw those sad-faced little puppies and thought "Oh you are so cute; I have to take you home"? Well, they might be cute, but you don't have to take it home. Chances are that that cute little puppy will be more of a problem than a pleasure. See, all those puppies have to come from somewhere, but where? The answer, for the most part, is a puppy mill and for the dogs that live there, it's exactly heaven. Here, they are rarely fed - just enough to keep them alive - and the conditions they live in are horrendous.