Posted on 05/27/2005 7:33:11 AM PDT by weekendwarrior
PETA or Medical Research?
May 27, 2005
Steven Milloy
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched a campaign last week against a drug testing company for alleged violations of animal welfare laws.
It’s a smokescreen for animal rights extremists’ real agenda — a complete ban on the use of laboratory animals.
PETA claimed at a news conference last week that one of its staffers worked undercover at a biomedical research lab in Vienna, Va., run by Covance, Inc., allegedly videotaping technicians improperly handling monkeys.
Covance, which doesn’t have a history of violating animal welfare laws and regulations, responded in a statement that PETA’s undercover work was illegal and urged the media “not to leap to conclusions about the truthfulness of these allegations, or the authenticity of any videotape and what PETA alleges it depicts,” according to the Associated Press.
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over the applicable animal welfare rules involved, sorts out fact from fiction, let’s not lose sight of the threat to us all posed by animal rights extremists.
PETA flat-out opposes the use of animals in medical research, claiming that “Even animal research that is carried out for ‘medical purposes’ tends to be irrelevant to human health.” This claim is ridiculous.
Not only has research with laboratory animals led to countless medical advances for people — including with respect to vaccines, drugs, smallpox, diabetes, heart disease, surgery, organ transplants and much more — but also for animals.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Each and everyone of these folks and everyone they know have had the benefit of animal research...whether it is food, medicine or the environment.
Rumble Time: PETA vs. AIDs research. I'd buy tickets to that one.
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