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Ryan Tannehill is speaking out against his alma mater. (Bill Ingram/The Post)

Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill doesn’t take many public stances, but he chose to speak up against what he sees as animal cruelty by his alma mater.

As part of PETA’s campaign to stop Texas A&M’s muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs, the organization released a strongly worded letter from Tannehill today calling for the school to halt the program. Tannehill referenced a troubling video of the dogs that circulated late last year.
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Very unusual for Ryan to take a public stance like this. He must feel very strongly about it. I feel that this shows some added maturity and self confidence as a leader to come out like this against his alma mater. He has a conscience. Full marks to Ryan for taking this stance.
 
Talk about a team building possibility...

Ryan spearheads a rogue Dolphin battalion to Texas A&M and liberates all the tortured canines seal team six style with the use of Ross' helicopter.

Sly smiles well up whenever they hear, "who let the dogs out?"
 
Good job Tannehill.

I love dogs, and I hate to see them mistreated. They're so trusting and loving I just don't see how people can do things to them or any other animal.
 
This is moronic. I hope it doesn't take off. Muscular dystrophy is the most ****ed condition there is as far as research is concerned. People that suffer from the different forms of MD are stonewalled from every angle by the FDA and now stupid controversy like this crap the PETA is creating. They can't get experimental drugs, they can't do the necessary experiments to advance research--- how about we think about what kind of cruelty we are subjecting the MD population to?
 
Yeesh. Animal research sounds cruel (whether mice, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, snakes, pigs), but is unfortunately absolutely essential to medical progress in this day and age. Period. Can it be done more ethically? Sure. Can it be further streamlined to minimize waste and unnecessary suffering for these animals? Yes. And the people who write protocols for these kinds of studies have to jump through A LOT of hoops to prove their studies are worthwhile and minimize the harm and waste involved. And if there is another way to ask and answer the research question being addressed by the animal studies, it is always preferred. Nobody likes harming the animals, even researchers who use animals.

I'm curious how many of you dog (or insert your favorite animal here) lovers would sign up to be the guinea pigs for new drugs or treatments instead of the animals? Should we just start testing on humans from ground zero? Hey, I've got a new drug for disease X that seems to work in a petri dish. I can just start giving it to patients, right? Or, I want to better understand disease X. Can I just kill a few disease X patients so I can harvest their cells and organs? How could medicines and treatments be developed and tested before they are administered to your mom? Your son?

At some point in the process of understanding a disease or developing a treatment, you need a MODEL of that disease. And if you look at the diseases we REALLY don't have a f-ing clue about, it's the ones that we can't or don't know how to model in animals. We'd be a lot closer to understanding autism if we had a legit mouse/dog/monkey model of autism. I'm sure anyone with familiarity with autism as well as animals can understand why modeling it might be challenging...

The fact that there exists an animal model of MD, whether dog or other animal, bodes well for the future of patients with that affliction.

I'm all for respecting animals and not harming them in any way, but I don't think people realize without animal research - which is truly the foundation of most meaningful medical research today - you'd be giving up the progress of the last several decades. I am surprised that Ryan Tannehill, touted on this forum as some kind of pre-med wunderkind, fails to grasp this. But it's easy to feel this way if you like animals and don't know a damn thing about medicine or science. Animal research SHOULD cause any reasonable human being some discomfort, and as a society we should strive to make it as humane as possible, so that these animals do not live and die in vain. But the benefits far, far outweigh the downsides.

NOTE: I'm speaking about federally-funded animal research, which is completely different from the oft-cited examples of cosmetics or other frivolous products being tested on bunnies, etc.
 
Thank you for taking a stand Ryan! As a volunteer for animal rescue organizations this hits close to home. No innocent dogs should be born to live a life of suffering.
 
spiketex said:
Very unusual for Ryan to take a public stance like this. He must feel very strongly about it. I feel that this shows some added maturity and self confidence as a leader to come out like this against his alma mater. He has a conscience. Full marks to Ryan for taking this stance.
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Dog owners like myself usually do feel strongly about things like this. I get that the research is critical and could help many dogs and people, but there is more than one way to skin a cat so to speak. If they used guinea pigs or some other animal I doubt Tannehill speaks out, but dogs are better than most animals and deserve special treatment lol. But seriously, they do. RT is the man.
 
I have little problem with the principle of animal research, it is obviously unpleasant but if it saves lives then frankly it is worth. (Testing makeup and **** like that is very different) However the idea of breeding the disease into these dogs is very nasty stuff and it sounds like this research isnt even working,

TannDaMan17 said:
Dog owners like myself usually do feel strongly about things like this. I get that the research is critical and could help many dogs and people, but there is more than one way to skin a cat so to speak. If they used guinea pigs or some other animal I doubt Tannehill speaks out, but dogs are better than most animals and deserve special treatment lol. But seriously, they do. RT is the man.
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I don't see why a dogs life is worth more than a guinea pigs.





Having said all of that (and I am going make myself a hypocrite here) if you want to have detailed debates about the pros and cons of animal testing, please take that to the pofo.
 
uk_dolfan said:
I have little problem with the principle of animal research, it is obviously unpleasant but if it saves lives then frankly it is worth. (Testing makeup and **** like that is very different) However the idea of breeding the disease into these dogs is very nasty stuff and it sounds like this research isnt even working,



I don't see why a dogs life is worth more than a guinea pigs.





Having said all of that (and I am going make myself a hypocrite here) if you want to have detailed debates about the pros and cons of animal testing, please take that to the pofo.
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There's a huge difference between a guinea pig and a dog. Just like there is a huge difference between a guinea pig and an ant, not all living things have equal value, especially to human beings.
 
DolphinDevil28 said:
I love animals and I love Ryan Tannehill, but PETA is one of the most hypocritical organizations on earth. They are awful.
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I actually worked there as a programmer shortly. I came to realize while they often do go too far, often to the detriment of their own cause, im glad they exist as a form of checks and balances. The world needs these organizations standing up for animals, who at this point have no chance to do it themselves.

We have plenty of organizations going way too far with cruelty, so if one organization wants to go batpoop crazy sticking up for the animals, then OK.
 
TannDaMan17 said:
There's a huge difference between a guinea pig and a dog. Just like there is a huge difference between a guinea pig and an ant, not all living things have equal value, especially to human beings.
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*shrug* maybe to you/me/most people. I have a friend who loves her Guinea pigs as much as anyone loves their dogs. Incredibly hard to say that one life is worth more than another or that its fine to test on x and not y.

But I shall say no more here, its not the place for ethical debates
 
Wow intentionally breeding diseased dogs is absolutely terrible :frown

I hope they get a lot of treats
 
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