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Animal-Rights Activists Torch Wrong Cars

December 3, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Animal-rights extremists have claimed responsibility for last week torching the cars of a person who lived near a UCLA animal researcher, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. School officials say the victim was mistakenly identified as a university affiliate and that they condemn all such attacks. "Words cannot express the contempt we hold for these acts of cowardice," the UCLA chancellor wrote.

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Ytnlobzo of NE 7:30AM July 14, 2009

I am proud to be an animal rights advocate, and perhaps sometimes violence against property (not people!) is necessary, but this sort of thing gives tarnishes a noble movement.

md of FL 2:05PM December 05, 2008

I can tell you as an immunology phd student that animal research is not conducted because people like to torture animals. The alternative would be to test new potential therapies on humans, unless you would prefer we stop trying to combat disease (though I'd bet you'd change your mind if you or someone close was diagnosed with a terminal illness). I can support the right to protest and certainly agree that we should never stop questioning what we do or if we have better options. Lighting cars on fire, however, does not fit into either of these categories. It is unfortunate that animal testing will never provide a means to discover a cure for such blatant ignorance as we see in this case.

HMG of MI 6:11PM December 03, 2008

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