Pro-test

[gnommi]

I've decided to write to my MP (Alan Whitehead), in order to ask him if he would consider signing this EDM, pertaining to the regulation of medical research involving the use of animals and addressing the spread of misinformation and intimidation by anti-vivisection groups.

Comments

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, excellent!

I've never really understood the anti-research crowd's position. They tend to be ok with harming humans, as long as no animals suffer? If ever there was a counter-survival instinct, that is it. If instead, they used all that time, energy, and money supporting human causes, we'd be that much further ahead of the curve. There might be one less oppressive regime in power, there might be that much more tolerance for differences in religion, race, class, ect. Hell, with all the medical research these groups target, we might just have found an AIDS cure, or some nifty tumor busting pharma, but no...

I've gotten in to it with a couple of groups before, but strangely, never over my research. I fully believe this is because cephalopods aren't offically on the "cute" list.

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I for one do not understand why cephalopods aren't on the cute list. :)

I'm really pleased too, that cephalopoda finally made it onto the list of "higher" animals and their use far more tightly regulated than before. They got a really raw deal before :(