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

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full story:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/176453_paynter07.html

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:56:41 -0400, "Animalconcerns"
<animalconcerns at fastmail.us> said:
> [Another week, another day, and more news items are being added to
> Animalconcerns.org!]
> 
> [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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