HIV

Where does HIV come from.  Today we watched a Ted Talk about how HIV comes into the human population.

In Africa where people live in extreme poverty, they go bush hunting.   They kill monkeys and then the blood from the primates can enter into the human.  The blood has HIV and then the person is infected.

I think this is a very big problem, but at the same time there will never be a utopia, and I think we need to pick our battles.  I think that we should fix poverty within our country before we start on someone elses.  We have budjet problems and health problems of our own.  I think we should help them but at the same time we have much more pressing issues at hand

Chimps

Do chimps deserve to live a free life like humans?  Recently a debate has been coming to light about how testing on animals is unacceptable.  Many people who want to stop animal testing would never take the drugs as testing as themselves.  So the question is if you dont want testing on animals would you take the testing yourself.  I know that I would rather the chimps not have to do the testing but at the same time i would not take the drugs instead of them.  And many other people would agree with me.  Therefore, I do not think that testing on animals will change anytime soon.