Pfizer Tortures Beagles, But Viagra Saves Wild Animals
4 11 2007
Many times in life we have to give something in order to get what we want. Nothing is free; we can not create energy, only change it’s form.
Pfizer’s Viagra, (Sildenafil citrate, anti-impotence drug), has given men with erectile dysfunction a sex life of which they had previously only dreamed. For most of these men, their impotence, lack of being able to get an erection, caused serious emotional damage. They felt like only half-a-man, incomplete, and not “a real man”. And to a certain extent, they are correct. If you are a women, would you date a man that can not get an erection? No sex, no fun, and no kids to form a family; not very appealing to most women.
But the hundreds of thousands of miracle erections has not come without a price. In order to fully test their anti-impotence drug, Pfizer needed to carry out experiments on the penis’ of beagles, (Pfizer Admits Mutilating Dogs’ Genitals). Many people thought this to be cruel.
The flip side is that Pfizer’s Viagra has save tens of thousands of wild animals from the slaughter houses simply because there is less demand for wild animal body parts that were being marketed as anti-impotence substances.
In fact, some researchers in Canada estimate that worldwide trade for some species has fallen by more than 70%. Frank von Hippel of the University of Alaska and his brother William at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, analysed data on three legally traded species used in traditional medicines:
- Alaskan reindeer
- hooded seals
- harp seals


The Harp seal and the Hooded seal.
Save the animals!
Bompa
