February 26, 2008
Extreme Animal Rights Activists Attack UCSC Faculty Member?
Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases," and attacking a man at the residence. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Santa Cruz police reported that six people wearing bandanas tried to break into a Westside home ["Westside rules!" -- SFist] just before 1 p.m., and that one of the family members, not the faculty member, was attacked before the intruders fled. The male victim had made sure his wife and children were safe in the back of the house before he confronted the attackers. He suffered minor injuries after being hit with an unknown object. None of the other four people in the house were injured.
The Sentinel goes on to say that:
A friend of the students who were inside the Riverside home told the Sentinel the incident was related to animal rights and SHAC
We tried contacting Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC7) for comment -- who, it should be noted, are very attractive for a group of pro-lifers -- but so far have yet to hear back from them.
The name of the faculty member has not been made public. Also, be safe out there, slug researchers. We know you're fighting the good fight.
Update: SHAC7 claims they didn't do it. To read more, go here.
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What morons, I totally believe that animal testing is morally acceptable when it is for life saving drugs.
For perfume etc, well that is a different story.
What morons, I totally believe that animal testing is morally acceptable when it is for life saving drugs.
For perfume etc, well that is a different story.
that was a stupid comment.
Try again.
Assaulting innocent people in their home is unjustifiable.
However, vivisection is morally reprehensible and scientifically unsound, but most importantly, it doesn't yield useful results. For example, acetaminophen (i.e. Tylenol) is lethal when ingested by cats. Can you imagine if we'd relied on those results?
But in the meantime, cats - animals that most Americans would consider pets - were tortured and killed. How is that morally acceptable?
Please make a distinction between animal rights activists and criminals / extremism. I support animal rights, (though I do understand the motives) however I condemn committing crimes like that. I'm sure most AR supporters feel the same way.
Uh, I messed up my comment above. I meant: I condemn the crimes committed, even though I understand the motives. Animal experimenters are criminals in my eyes.
Uh, I messed up my comment above. I meant: I condemn the crimes committed, even though I understand the motives. Animal experimenters are criminals in my eyes.
miss mess:
somehow i suspect that you're not a scientist. "vivisection" has not been a term of art for several decades, at least. furthermore, IACUC boards are generally quite strict in allowing animal research, requiring the researcher to minimize the number of animals used by statistical power analysis, and minimize distress to the animal, allowing significant distress only when it is central to the research, as well as a significant and compelling human health concern (e.g. cancer, AIDS). saying it does not yield useful results depends on the context, and one cherry-picked example does not an indictment of all animal research make.
one thing that the animal-rights nutjobs also seem to ignore is that findings from animal research are also applied to veterinary medicine.
I may be a little naive but invading one's home is just plain stupid. So are bombs and-the-like.
You have an idea? Good for you (and us!) engage in the "market-place" of ideas in our democracy. Don't take justice into your own hands. You cannot do this.
You are shaming your movement (the actions like this make it seem like a bowel movement rather than a "cause").
That is not how we live, breathe, love each other and maintain our society.
Comprende?
You spelled "Xtreme" wrong.
You spelled "Xtreme" wrong.
There are many more effective things the fun brown-shirted gang can do:
1) Burn the books in the library relating to the field.
2) Hack websites relating to the field.
3) Burn crosses, or other related stuff in the front-yard of professors and other educators. Don't stop will college -- high school educators are no good either.
4) Create an atmosphere of fear on High School and College campuses.
There is much precedent that these tactics are effective, Nazi Germany, the Reconstruction South, etc.
Yeay Animal Rights!
I am happy to know that scientists and doctors don't share the same ideas about animal rights as these nuts. I'm not fond of going back to the days when bloodletting was thought to be a cure for, well, everything.
One time, a girl who wanted to join ALF and was saying that she would definitely hurt somebody to protect an animal and someone asked her how she felt about hurting animals to help animals and I saw a little piece of her mind crack that day.