AR-News: (US-wa) Animal research is not just for humans

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[opinion from Seattle Post Intelligencer]

But the fact that animal research helps save both human beings AND other
Itsy Bitsies is too often overlooked, DeBakey said. And that fact was
pressing on the sharp mind of this decorated medical statesman when we
met a week ago in Washington, D.C.
...
And the very day I arrived back in Seattle, the FBI's domestic terrorism
squad had arrested another animal activist right here at home. Joshua
Harper was one of seven people arrested across the country last week on
charges including torching researchers' cars, vandalizing homes and
making threats against families.

Much to Harper's satisfaction, no doubt, such tactics have had an
enormous effect on research according to the Northwest Association for
Biomedical Research. Money for life-saving research goes, instead, to
security systems and crime prevention.

In England, animal research virtually has been shut down.

But, when I asked two local leaders in the field about the pressure
exerted by animal activists, they said the effect has not been all bad,
after all.
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