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Original poster

to think this is not a suitable place for school to send a 14 yo on work experience

102 replies

princessparty · 27/01/2010 12:21

..an animal testing laboratory !!
He rang me from school this morning to say this is what the school has suggested when he said he wanted to do lab work for work experience.Apparently they have placed students there in the past !
Apart from the obvious upsetting nature of their work,the place is often frequented by animal rights activists who have not only targetted people working there but also employees of any companies doing business with them !!

OP posts:
ToccataAndFudge · 27/01/2010 13:06

"PP is posting in an intentionally inflammatory manner, consistent with the behaviour of a troll."!

ehh - where???

Original poster
princessparty · 27/01/2010 13:07

bruxeur - yer bonkers ! and way off the mark!

OP posts:
GypsyMoth · 27/01/2010 13:08

how are the schools sending kids there pp?? its up to us,or the pupil (as someone just corrected me on) to organise these days

littlemissfixit · 27/01/2010 13:09

coldtits yuk!! I would of boaked all the severed hand you must have a very strong stomach!

ToccataAndFudge · 27/01/2010 13:09

actually her first post doesn't seem inflammatory at all to me.

I may disagree with her (although I would feel the same about my children working in an animal testing lab.........but that's my own morals etc) but I don't see 'owt wrong with the way she's put it

Morloth · 27/01/2010 13:09

The protesters would worry me, but not the lab work. I am not keen on animal testing for anything anything other than medical research (i.e. not cosmetics testing etc). The animals are not hurt for fun you know. You never take medicine? Have never used any medical equipment? How do you think this stuff happens?

If he is interested in medical research then there is going to be animal testing.

bruxeur · 27/01/2010 13:09

How is describing animal testing as "torturing animals" anything but deliberately inflammatory?

wastingaway · 27/01/2010 13:10

So you eat the flesh of animals, and products made from animals, but you consider the highly regulated testing of essential drugs on animals 'torture'?

It's not like he's going to be conducting experiments himself is it?

CaptainUnderpants · 27/01/2010 13:10

PP is not a troll ! - I think her question is reasonable .

bruxuer - stop trying to detract from the OP concerns .

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 27/01/2010 13:11

my nephew is currently doing his work experience at an animal testing centre. he thinks its really cool. horse for courses. i don't think it is unreasonable for the school to suggest it nor do i think it is unreasonable for you to decline.

Morloth · 27/01/2010 13:13

I don't think you are supposed to eat the horses at animal labs Eleanora.

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 27/01/2010 13:13

unless the op is in france

Hulababy · 27/01/2010 13:13

It is up to your son surely?

If he wants to go, let him.

If he doesn't want to, he looks for an alternative.

It isn't something I would have agreed to going to, but it wouldn't bother other people.

GypsyMoth · 27/01/2010 13:14

posting something other than the usual 'dh doesnt do enough to help in the house' rubbish and its called trolling!!!

lovely concept

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 27/01/2010 13:14

i work next to one of these places and honestly the protesters are a gentle weedy bunch. they turn up for about an hour and then drift off.

the grandma digging up lot are a minority

bruxeur · 27/01/2010 13:15

You understand that you can be a regular, and a troll?

Posting a phrase like "torturing animals" is trolling.

In this instance, pp is behaving like troll.

Do you see?

morningpaper · 27/01/2010 13:16

this was always the HOT HOLIDAY JOB when I was a teenager, kids who worked in the labs were uber-cool

You are lucky that the school is arranging the work experience at all. It's up to your child whether they go or not, I guess?

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 27/01/2010 13:16

no brux i don't see, the op is simple stating the case with an obvious bias due to her beliefs.

GypsyMoth · 27/01/2010 13:16

nope....it was just an opinion

Hulababy · 27/01/2010 13:17

IMo this is not a troll type thread. The OP is not troll like behaviour IMO. Maybe some comments may be imflammatory, but that doesn't mean she is a troll.

Let's face it, animal testing is hardy cuddling animls and being all lovely and cosy.

Yes, it isnecessary for medical research, etc but it doesnt mean that the animas aren't actually hurt in the process.

bruxeur · 27/01/2010 13:17

If she believes that animal testing is torture then she's too stupid to leave the house unassisted. As she obviously isn't, then she's using deliberately inflammatory language in order to provoke argument.

Which is trolling.

GypsyMoth · 27/01/2010 13:18

behaving like a troll and being one arent the same

an arent you just supposed to quietly report your concerns to mn hq??

EleanoraBuntingCupcake · 27/01/2010 13:19

being dissected while still alive is probably fairly torturous for some animals. brux you are being offensive and by your own definition fairly troll like yourself

bruxeur · 27/01/2010 13:20

You seem to have a very limited understanding of what a troll - and trolling - is, ILT.

nickelbabe · 27/01/2010 13:20

yanbu.

when i was 14, i was very strongly anti-vivisection and one of my GCSE science essays was about how it was unnecessary and cruel, so if they'd suggested that to me, i think i would have hit the wall (and oh, my mum would have been )
it's not very sensitive, is it?
twats.