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doglady:
 PETA people are retarded.

petatard.jpgAnimal testing is ubiquitous in the pharmaceutical industry and is mandated by the FDA before human studies can be conducted. Does PETA object to this testing? Of course. Do PETA members take medications invented in the last 30 years? Of course. Why would this be speculated? They don’t seem to live shorter lives than the normal population1, to much chagrin I may add.

Their present campaign has been targeting the parent companies making consumables that either fund or perform animal testing. They successfully lobbied Coke and Pepsi to cease animal testing. I’m not arguing this is a bad thing per se, since I don’t really know or care how animal testing would make a tastier product in the labs of a soft drink company, but the consequences spilled over to external funding (i.e. corporate funding) for research on how rats perceive taste conducted at VTU. Corporations give and take money at will - there’s no ethical reason they have to fund or don’t have to fund research, but the logic PETA employs is both scary and laughable.

To quote:

    Dr. Goldberg said that over the last 30 years, advances in alternatives to animal models, many of which are usually more scientifically precise, have already cut the number of lab animals in use by 50 percent.

    “The bottom line for me is that I’d love to see animal studies disappear entirely,” Dr. Goldberg said. “In vitro models are cleaner.”

Hmmm… In vitro models are cleaner? I don’t even know what that means. And what’s this bullshit statistic of cutting lab animal usage in half? By keeping manufacturers from rubbing shampoo in dog’s eyes? Besides, what cell lines do they think we use for in vivo testing? We’ve got tons of Chinese hamster ovary cells and monkey kidney cells to use as our mammalian cell models. I assure you, they didn’t hand those cells over voluntarily. Technology has advanced, it’s true, but to the extent that we can abandon animal models? pfft fucktards.

This group and analogous groups actively spread false or misleading information to persuade people that animal testing is unnecessary. Such groups employ the tried and true big-pharma-is-evil-and-in-cahoots-with-the-FDA line and they maliciously test animals just to be evil, like the misanthropic villains in Captain Planet.

This is benign compared to some of the shit PETA has done like contaminate Pomegranate juice on store shelves or threaten bomb attacks and start fires at animal testing facilities forcing them to relocate to china (where there are even fewer laws regulating the humane treatment of animals in testing facilities.) Being in a lab that actually DOES in vivo work, I can assure you, it’s not like we can head out to Pet World with our SS uniform on and buy a dozen doe eyed gerbils to cut their nuts off for the pleasures of Josef Mengele. There are rules one must follow, especially regarding the hygiene and merit of use of these animals.

In short, PETA people are stupid and they want you to think people that do this work are as bad as Nazis. Some of the things they’ve done, like discourage fur use and promote sanitary conditions in farms are laudable, but a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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