Bang!Bang!Bang!A hand banging a head on a table ,a pitiful moaning coming from that being ,it's hands folded like a namaste pleading for mercy.But no mercy is bestowed.Instead it's head is banged until it's tongue comes out of it's mouth and blood oozes out.This is not a scene from a torture room in Iraq or in German camps during Hitler's reign.Actually it's a common scene in every zoology labs of 3rd year students.No,no need to panic!They are not doing these experiments on humans but on frogs who can't protest or convey the pain they are undergoing.May be now your pulse is coming back to normal or are still disgusted and shocked,I don't know.But the naked truth is this only-
A LIFE IS CRUSHED MERCILESSLY FOR THE SAKE OF PRACTICALS.
In the name of science ,a life is so cruelly treated that most horror movies will be put to shame.A life is a life,whether of an ant or a human.They also feel pain ,hunger and thirst and killing them inhumanly is just too much.A frog is picked from the box and with one strong bang on the table ,it is made braindead.No,not dead yet,a movement can be seen.Okay ,it's head is banged again.Now ,it's is put on tray and slowly fluid is poured.Hey!it's moving again.Oh ,no! practical can't be done this way.Now one of the macho guys enters and holds him and with a very strong force bangs it's head on the table.A very pitieous moan escapes from it's mouth and it's body becomes limp.Then comes the real part of experiment-it's heart is taken out and then it's leg is torn from its body.And remains of the poor frog is unceremoniously dumped into the dustbin.How would you feel if the same thing is done to a human being?Shocked na!Remember,that frog is also a living being ,one of the creation of the god.Not only frogs ,each and every laboratory animal is treated cruelly.Several rats are put in a cage inspite of knowing that so much rats tend to fight and tear each other,exactlty like we do.And most of all,there is marked absence of hygiene.No ,I am not talking about bathing each and every rat.The excreta of rat remains in the cages and tends to accumulate,without anyone bothering to clean it daily,except during inspections. The prescribed standards for keeping laboratory animals are not followed.Last but not the least,I just want to ask these professors who coerce the students to perform practicals,only one question-How many of the graduate students opt for surgery or go into research?May be 30%,that's all.And just for those 30% is it necessary to kill so many rats and frogs? Isn't this an unnecessary waste of life when so many visual and other aids are available .We should remember ,when we cannot create life we have no right to destroy a life.
