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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valéry Schollaert" data-source="post: 3216172" data-attributes="member: 75148">The main problem here is that human is not considering other forms of life as he considers himself.Probably we can prove that experimenting the medicines directly on kids can be more efficient than start with other animals, right? And human species is definitely not threatened! For (good) ethical reasons, we don't (legally) experiment new things on kids without preliminary tests...I think the question should not be. It is ethically not acceptable to kill for any purpose, certainly not science, even if we can prove that is more efficient, so we should stop collecting immediately without question."without specimens, the extinction risk of many species cannot be properly assessed."Very funny. When a new species is discovered, it is threatened by scientists, collectors, photographers, poachers, twitchers... better live hidden? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>