Thursday, June 02, 2005
PETA Lies
I have decided that you have to be pretty lonely to put people ahead of animals, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals does it every day. Now they are opposing medical research using animals. And they are just flat out lying:
When one attends Butler University one learns where the good times come from -- nearby neighbor Eli Lilly. This means I spent some time in the labs at Lilly, almost all of which had a few animals to do metabolic studies or whatever, and I have never seen a happier, healthier bunch of animals in my life. They were pets.
PETA may be the most misguided bunch of ninnies the world has ever seen.
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.There is not a pharmaceutical on the market that has not been tested on animals.
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.
When one attends Butler University one learns where the good times come from -- nearby neighbor Eli Lilly. This means I spent some time in the labs at Lilly, almost all of which had a few animals to do metabolic studies or whatever, and I have never seen a happier, healthier bunch of animals in my life. They were pets.
PETA may be the most misguided bunch of ninnies the world has ever seen.
