Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ihnp4!homxb!homxc!scott From: scott@homxc.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: Animal rights hypocrisy Message-ID: <2347@homxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 12:05:11 EST Article-I.D.: homxc.2347 Posted: Wed Dec 2 12:05:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 18:41:27 EST References: <3823@bellcore.bellcore.com> Distribution: alt Organization: A Moment's Notice Lines: 24 In article <3823@bellcore.bellcore.com>, tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes: > Here is an exmaple of what a moderate view might be: Eat moderate > amounts of meat or none. When you eat it, consider that someone > who values his life as much as you do yours, gave it up, surely > against his will, fighting as he went down. Consider also, what > it would have been like if you yourself had plunged the knife, not > some distant, unknown meat packer. Buy leather shoes with the same > consideration. (I do because nothing else protects my feet as > well). Allow medical experiments with animals because they afford > us our lifestyle, such as vaccinations, etc. Good article, Tom, but I would like to make the point that one should consider animal experimentation with as many (or even MORE) reservations than the eating of meat. Many experiments with animals are not AT ALL necessary to "affording us our life-style", and I do not limit this to perfume and cosmetic studies. Many alternate methods are available, but research into them is not funded, nor are they used, often simply because buying animals from a "pound" is "easier". ========================================= "I'm not quite sure I believe that, D.M." "Well sir, after all it IS only a CARTOON." Scott J. Berry ihnp4!homxc!scott