• Question: does your work harm animals,trees or any living things?

    Asked by adam123 to Antonia, Douglas, Hugh, Matt, Tom on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Matthew Hurley

      Matthew Hurley answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      My work harms some bacteria (with a bit of luck). Doesn’t harm animals or trees though.

    • Photo: Douglas Blane

      Douglas Blane answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      No it never has. I’m a vegetarian and a bit of a Buddhist. I don’t deliberately hurt or kill any animals for any reason.

    • Photo: Tom Hardy

      Tom Hardy answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Absolutely not! I’m a big animal lover as I come from the country and my parents have chickens and ducks. Unfortunately where I live now I don’t have enough room for any animals. My work is done in a laboratory or on a special site and doesn’t involve animals in any way. I have worked with Police Sniffer Dogs, but they are spoiled rotten.

      Trees are a difficult one. I really hope I don’t harm them. Sometimes when I do chemistry experiments in the laboratory I create vapours which can be quite harmful to the environment, but I have a special fume cupboard where I do these experiments. The fume cupboard filters and extracts all the harmful chemicals so that the vapour that gets into the atmosphere is nice and clean and doesn’t hurt trees!

    • Photo: Antonia Hamilton

      Antonia Hamilton answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      no, I only study people and put them in brain scanners to see how their brains work.

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