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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
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 12:05:11 1987
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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".

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"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