Homocon

When forced to make a choice between medical progress for humans or the well-being of rats, monkeys and rabbits, I choose humans, just as I would choose to save a human being over a pet dog should I be the first at the scene of a terrible car wreck or a house-fire. It's just not something I care to fabricate a moral quandary over (much like the flushing of a Qur'an down a toilet -- it's a book, they're terrorists, chill out).

Below are some links to pertinent articles and stories regarding the benefits to humanity brought about by animal research, and the havoc wreaked by the new 21st century Luddites who suffer from the glue-sniffing delusion that an animal (any animal, mind you -- just pick one!) is somehow equal in worth to a human. I'm willing to concede that animals have value, yes, as far as research, entertainment, food source, transportation, labor and/or or companionship is concerned, but equal?

Pshaw!

1. "Childhood injections might protect people later in life, animal studies suggest, and a dose of antibodies could clear clogged arteries."

2. "The protection of public health from adverse effects of pesticides can be achieved through reliance on animal testing and use of the highest ethical standards."

3. "The Animal Liberation Front is a criminal organization that has claimed responsibility for thousands of acts of violence against animal enterprises and their employees, mostly in the United States and Great Britain."

4. "There is no question that the fringes of the animal welfare and environmental rights movements have become increasingly radicalized . . . These sectors see themselves in a war against the entire government and industrial democracy itself."

5. "Cancel the (December 10th) Forest Labs party or syrup of ipecac and diarrhea inducing agents will appear in your catering provisions begining Friday afternoon."

6. "Vaccines for polio and hepatitis B were developed through experiments on animals. Medical procedures like measuring blood pressure, pacemakers, and heart and lung machines were perfected on animals before being tried on humans. Surgery techniques, like those to correct and prevent bone diseases, were developed on animals."

7. "Researchers must show that animals used in their particular project are not being unnecessarily burdened. This means that any burden placed on experimental animals needs to be justified. One aspect of providing that justification is to show that the research is likely to bring benefits either by (a) improving medical care of humans or animals or (b) contributing to new scientific information."

8. "The ALF has always had a stated policy of non-violence. However, in more recent years, ALF activities have extended to vandalism, arson and making threats against individuals who directly or indirectly work for organizations the ALF has targeted."

9. "A great many medical breakthroughs have depended on the use of laboratory animals and much of the medical research being done today still depends on them. Yet this research faces increasingly hostile campaigns by those who, through lack of understanding, would seek to ban all animal research."

10. "The MORI poll found that people do not recognise the link between animal research and medical treatments. Thirty five per cent said that they or a close family member had taken a prescribed drug for a serious illness in the past two years, yet only one in six of this group realised that the drugs had been tested on animals."

Individuals involved with organizations such as ALF are not concerned with the welfare of bunnies and beagles -- the so-called "Animal Rights" activism of ALF and PETA (among others) is merely a smokescreen that provides useful cover for a disturbed litany of arsonists, vandals, thieves, exhibitionists, anarchists, sociopaths and thrill-junkies.

UPDATE:
Right in my own backyard . . . typical.

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Har!

And double har!