what does your job entail and do your findings harm or benifit animals?

Question: what does your job entail and do your findings harm or benifit animals?
- Keywords:
  animal,
  environment,
  ethics
Asked by sparklydolphin to Simon, Laura, Christian, Angus on 19 Jun 2013.
- Simon Holyoake answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  My job entails making and repairing things, mostly for examining geological stuff
  
  My work doesn’t harm animals at all, when working around them in the field I’m always careful to pick up my tools and rubbish so the animals aren’t at risk of being hurt
  
  my work doesn’t really benefit animals, although I am definitely an animal lover!
- Angus Ferraro answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  My job entails simulating the atmosphere using a computer and trying to use it to learn things about the real atmosphere. No animals are involved.
  
  My work is all about climate change, and climate change affects everyone and everything on Earth, so I suppose animals are involved that way. I wouldn’t want to harm animals in any way!
- Laura Roberts Artal answered on 19 Jun 2013:
  
  My work entails looking for evidence of the Earth’s magentic field in really old rocks.
  
  My work doesn’t really affect animals in anyway. I spent quite a lot of time in the field collecting my samples so I was always careful not to disturb the local wildlife, that was important to me. I’d hate to think that my work could harm animals!
- Christian Maerz answered on 21 Jun 2013:
  
  I am analysing the composition of marine sediment. And I think this neither harm nor benefits animals in any significant way. In my private life, my girlfriend and I are so animal-friendly that we even rescue snails from the sidewalk and put them into a flower bed.

Question: what does your job entail and do your findings harm or benifit animals?

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