The Draize Test is an acute toxicity test devised in 1944 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toxicologist John H. Draize. Initially used for testing cosmetics, the procedure involves applying 0.5mL or 0.5g of a test substance to the eye or skin of a restrained, conscious animal, and leaving it for four hours.[1] The animals are observed for up to 14 days, for signs of erythema and edema in the skin test, and redness, swelling, discharge, ulceration, hemorrhaging, cloudiness, or blindness in the tested eye. The test subject is commonly an albino rabbit, though other species are used too, including dogs.[2] The animals are killed after testing.[3]
This makes a lot of sense considering the animal rights values Morrissey had. To call it the Draize Train, to me, lends an association of the Auschwitz trains that carried Jews, Communists, gay people, disabled people and others to the death camps in Nazi Germany. It might seems an extreme example, but instead of actually comparing one atrocity with another, subjectively, it can be seem more as a comment on humanity, on what wanton destruction we are capable of, on a day to day basis, depending on the time and the context, the values we eschew others and the lack of compassion people are able to act with. The idea of a train implies an onward journey, a march through time of cruelty, a certain track we're on that leads us to a particular destination as a people, as humans.
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The Draize Test is an acute toxicity test devised in 1944 by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toxicologist John H. Draize. Initially used for testing cosmetics, the procedure involves applying 0.5mL or 0.5g of a test substance to the eye or skin of a restrained, conscious animal, and leaving it for four hours.[1] The animals are observed for up to 14 days, for signs of erythema and edema in the skin test, and redness, swelling, discharge, ulceration, hemorrhaging, cloudiness, or blindness in the tested eye. The test subject is commonly an albino rabbit, though other species are used too, including dogs.[2] The animals are killed after testing.[3]
This makes a lot of sense considering the animal rights values Morrissey had. To call it the Draize Train, to me, lends an association of the Auschwitz trains that carried Jews, Communists, gay people, disabled people and others to the death camps in Nazi Germany. It might seems an extreme example, but instead of actually comparing one atrocity with another, subjectively, it can be seem more as a comment on humanity, on what wanton destruction we are capable of, on a day to day basis, depending on the time and the context, the values we eschew others and the lack of compassion people are able to act with. The idea of a train implies an onward journey, a march through time of cruelty, a certain track we're on that leads us to a particular destination as a people, as humans.