Author's Note: I picked this book because it caught my attention and sucked me in and I wanted to share that with you.
Man V.S Beast, by
Robert Muchamore is about a 13 year old boy named James Adams who has
been with a secret agency by the name of Cherub for almost 4 years. His
mother died 4 years ago and a father is who unknown. His sister Lauren
Adams is also a member of Cherub. Now on his sixth mission James along
with his sister Lauren and best mate Kyle work together as they must
stop an extreme animal rights group from killing Innocent people and
millions of lab workers. Robert Muchamore did a great job at using
realistic problems like animal cruelty and animal rights groups to tell
his story.
Robert Muchamore makes Man V.S Beast
a much better book by using real world issues like extreme animal
rights groups. This book also brings out the facts. After researching I
found the U.S abuse more than 241,000 rabbits alone in laboratories
every year. Experimenters at the University of Utah
cut deep incisions into rabbits' backs and surgically inserted implants
into their spines. The surgically mutilated rabbits were observed for
24 weeks and then killed. Some animal rights groups break into
facilities like the University of Utah and free animals. They also do
this in places like slaughter houses or bigger named organizations.
In
the book the animal cruelty is quite scary because they explain in
great detail what they do to process animals. When scientist breed dogs
for testing they isolate them in tiny cages and only hose them out to
clean them. Since puppies are playful when they have nothing or no one
to play with they play with there poop and roll in their own urine.
Which can make them ill before testing even starts. The test are usually
testing safety of cleaning products in digestive systems. That’s why
animal rights groups are here to stop it.
Animal
rights groups are doing what they can to stop the testing. In places
like the U.K., Belgium, and Netherlands testing has been shut down. Some
animal rights groups will stop at nothing to shut down animal testing.
The extreme animal rights group in the book is the A.F.A (Animal Freedom
Army). They used napalm to blow up an entire parking lot of researchers
cars. Even though most animal right groups wont go that far they will break in to facilities and destroy equipment and research.
I’m
siding with the animal rights groups because I think killing animals
for research is wrong. The book is overall great. It truly uses a lot of
realism and is truly a good laugh. You should think about what you eat
and how they make animals into that because i can’t look at burgers the
same way. It’s truly a great book and show great realism with the animal testing and rights groups.
