Re: Sometimes I hate my job :-(
- From: "John" <bo1lerdoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:14:18 +0000 (UTC)
"Catja Pafort" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Alison wrote:
>
> [Abusive 'breeder']
>
>> It would be nice if animal rights groups decided to direct their energies
>> towards stopping/shopping/whatever this sort of abuse and suffering
>> rather
>> than bombing children, desecrating people's graves and making ordinary
>> peoples' lives hell because they dared to sell a pint to someone whose
>> relation works for a research place which is seeking to find cures for
>> illness that will benefit people and animals.
>
>
> The problem is, of course, that the animal rights people don't give a
> damn for animals. They have a political agenda, and they want to
> terrorise people, and they want to feel righteous about it.
>
> Unfortunately, many - including well-meaning donors - confuse them with
> animal _welfare_ groups.
>
> No, I'm not in favour of using animals for research; mainly because the
> research is so damn inconclusive in the vast majority of cases. A lot of
> drugs that are safe for guineapigs/cats/whatever are *not* safe for
> people, and the other way round.
>
> And much as I like animals, I do not think the lives of guineapigs are
> worth beating people up for, or making their lives misery etc. What
> about ethical treatment of _people_?
>
Somehow the animal rights crowd who find it acceptable to abuse or throw
paint over a woman in a fur never seem to try any of their antics on a Hells
Angel in leather. I wonder why?
.
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