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Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail claiming that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab. Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them. The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi's Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.
Humans are animals, too. How is this treating these victims ethically?
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/
PETA's "animal shelters" would do Auschwitz proud.
PETA is a PITA. Their aims may be noble, but their methods border on criminal. They once picketed a hospital I worked at for doing animal research - which had never been done there. They apparently based the idea on the fact that there were some dog pens behind the hospital. Those were for guard dogs that had been used at the boiler plant many years ago and are all overgrown with weeds now.
What planet are you on? PETA rarely has any valid points. They are complete fuckwits and should be treated as pariahs.
The only thing they've done is further prove the case for abolishing all tax exemption for political activism and making contributions to the same not a valid deduction on the income tax.
You're missing a crucial part:
"Anyone living in Norfolk VA, please pay Ingrid Newkirk a 'friendly' visit."
Also, a phone number would have been nice, so that people from other places can contribute too.
Since PETA claims the Holocaust wasn't wrong.
Since eating a hamburger or a chicken sandwich is perfectly fine, morally speaking, by comparing eating a chicken sandwich or a hamburger to the Holocaust, they are saying that there was nothing wrong with said Holocaust.
First of all, this is harassment.
Second, all of them are ignorant idiots. Anyone who wants to discuss this, let me know, and I'll post a link to the official NIH book on the ethical design of experiments, including both human and animal guidelines.
Third... have *any* PETA members *ever* volunteered themselves to replace animals in medical trials, bearing in mind that if they don't work, the side effects could be dangerous?
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PETA are hypocrites because people are animals too, and they don't give a shit about how humans are treated by others, or even what they themselves do to humans.
I don't think anyone disputes that some humans treat some animals badly. PETA puts more animals to death each year than they save. But I guess their moral superiority gives them that right. The right to "euthanize" my pet because it's better to be a dead cat than to be "forced to live in captivity" PETA is a joke and I put them in the same bin as the nutso "pro-life" murderous thugs.
Vegitarians are monsters, they kill plants! They hack them apart, and grind them into mush, then swallow them! How disgusting can you get?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?