Terrorism
Here are some sad news about terrorism: A researcher in the USA was forced to give up his research (visual system), because animal rights activists were threatening him. They tried to firebomb a colleague’s house (and almost hit a third party’s house by mistake).
I don’t even know where to begin with these news - if at the stupidity of people who defend “animal rights” by trying to kill people, if at the cowardice of those activists who go for the researchers because they know they can’t face big corporations, if at the hipocrisy of the USA government which meddles in international affairs in the name of terrorism while ignoring these homegrew lunatics.
Sheesh.
August 29th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
If one of these activists is assaulted until he needs the use of some medicine that involved animal-related research to develop, to survive, will he rather die than use it?
August 29th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I don’t know, Chaminda…
On one hand, they are religious zealots (even if the matter isn’t religion per se) - there are religious zealots who aren’t going to let their children donate blood or go through life-saving medical procedures due to their beliefs. So they might very well reject the use of the research - that does not make them right.
On the other hand, they are hypocrites. There are slaughterhouses for animal products that treat animals WAY worse than research institutes (which have strict ethical controls), but the activists never go after them - because corporations can fight back much better than researchers.
So they might just turn around their beliefs if it will benefit them directly.
One way or the other, this pisses me off mightly.