Current questions of ethics
Current questions of ethics
animal experiments · állatkísérletek
nuclear experiments
Big companies and factories test cosmetics and other chemicals /vegyszer/ on animals. And during
experiments /kísérletek/ of genetic engineering /genetikai kutatás/ they also might involve /érint, kiterjed/
animals, because of the fact /tény/ that some plants or their engineered versions may be harmful /ártalmas/ or
poisonous /mérgező/ to human beings, so scientists /tudósok/ use animals first to decide /(el)dönt/ whether
/vajon/ real people can test it, or not. There are a lot of animal-rights activists who try to protest against at
/tiltakozás vmi miatt/ these animal experiments, as they think that the animals also have feelings and rights for
the life, for a healthy and liveable /élhető/ life. For example, PETA is an organization /szervezet/ for the animal
rights. Some people are interested in it, some don’t know anything about it, but bigger percentage /százalék/ of
people simply just don’t care about it and buy the things they see on the shelves and in the advertisements
/reklámok/.
However /azonban/, there are companies which don’t do any experiments on animals and they are still famous
for their products. Mostly they don’t use any chemicals, just plants and herbs /gyógynövények/, as it was in the
past, when people hadn’t have great knowledge of the things, but had known if something was or was not good
for them. (GIGI, Himalaya Herbals)
If we care about the animals rights a bit, we can search after, buy and use cosmetics which were not tested on
dogs, cats, rodents /rágcsálók/ and on other pets. I just use natural cosmetics. Because they test chemicals on
smaller animals, which may even happen to be our favorite family dog’s puppy, who we sold last week to a kind
stranger.
Also /szintén/, people want to be ready for everything, even if somebody attacks them. They invent /feltalál/ and
produce /előállít/ more and more dangerous weapons /fegyverek/, like the nuclear ones.
There are many experiments on them, and in my opinion they are really disgusting /visszataszító/ and not for
neurasthenic /gyenge idegzetű/ people or the ones living in families. I have heard that there were even
experiments on babies and stillborns without the permission of the parents. Despite /vminek ellenére/ of the fact
that some got Nobel-prizes for their experiments, it is still an unbearable /elviselhetetlen/ thing for me, and I was
not even able to read or hear anything else about this topic. I don’t feel myself able to talk a lot about this, since
it made a deep and bad impression /benyomás/ on me, and it caused me really unpleasant /kellemetlen/ dreams.
I have a friend, whose mother was pregnant with her when Chernobyl was happened. She has omnifarious
/mindenféle/ allergies and baby teeth /tejfog/ at the age of twenty-nine /29 évesen/.
But there were other terrible events in the history of the nuclear experiments, like in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
during the Second World War. According /vmi vonatkozásában/ to a few years ago released /közzétesz/ reports
/jelentés, riport/, about 45,000 people, mainly /főleg/ Soviet soldiers, were deliberately /szándékosan/ exposed to
radiation /sugárártalomnak tesz ki/ from a bomb twice as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima just nine
years before. At 9:33 a.m. (nine thirty-three a.m.) on 14 th (of) September 1954, a Soviet bomber plane dropped
an atomic weapon. The bomb exploded /felrobbant/ above /felett/ Totskoye testing range /térség/ near the
provincial /vidéki/ town of Orenburg. Thousands are believed to have died in the immediate aftermath /közvetlen
utóhatása/ and in the years following. The pilot flying the bomber developed /betegséget megkap/ leukemia and
his co-pilot developed bone cancer.
The experiment was designed /tervezett/ to test the performance /teljesítmény/ of military hardware /katonai
fegyverzet/ and soldiers in the event /esemény/ of a nuclear war. There are no official figures showing how many
of the 45,000 people sent to Totskoye testing range died as a result /emaitt/ of the test. Thousands died. These
people were used as guinea pigs /tengerimalac/, tested, and then left to die slowly of cancer. The state does not
want their tragedy recognised /elismer/, because it would cost money. Nobody wants to know.
