Animal Rights Activists Claim Responsibility for UCLA Firebombing

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Vsomhgbn of KY 7:29AM July 14, 2009

Animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century, for both human and animal health. From the discovery of antibiotics, analgesics, anti-depressants, and anesthetics, to the successful development of organ transplants, bypass surgery, heart catheterization, and joint replacement, practically every present-day protocol for the prevention, control, and cure of disease is based on knowledge attained through research with laboratory animals. More than half of the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been given for research involving animals.
Since 1900, modern medicine and public health have boosted the average lifespan in United States by almost 30 years. Much of this progress came from knowledge gained through animal research. Many diseases that once killed millions of people every year are now either preventable, treatable, or have been eradicated altogether. The survival rates for many other major diseases are at an all-time high thanks to the discovery of powerful new drugs, the development of new surgical procedures, and the design of sophisticated medical devices. Research with animals has played a critical role in nearly all of these advances.
Animal research has also paid incalculable benefits to animals. It has resulted in many remarkable lifesaving and life-extending treatments for cats, dogs, farm animals, wildlife, and endangered species. Pacemakers, artificial joints, organ transplants, and freedom from arthritic pain are just a few of the breakthroughs made in veterinary medicine thanks to animal research. Dogs, cats, sheep, and cattle are also living longer and healthier lives thanks to vaccines for rabies, distemper, parvo virus, hepatitis, anthrax, tetanus, and feline leukemia. New treatments for glaucoma, heart disease, cancer, hip dysplasia, and traumatic injuries are saving, extending, and enhancing the lives of beloved pets while advanced reproductive techniques are helping to preserve and protect threatened and endangered species.
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RAL of IA 2:27PM March 20, 2009

please stop abusing our animal's. they have a right to be here too. animal's have no right's. it's about time they do.just think for a minute.what if the animal's were doing this to us human's.they have thought's and feeling's too.

janet haeanzo of OH 11:11AM March 19, 2009

What complete blather. Only the ignorant and the liars could make such claims. I can only guess that the authors of such claims have never read USDA inspection reports, daily care logs of the animals, or looked too carefully at the materials and methods sections of published papers.
Increasingly, hard science is demonstrating that animals have emotions and cognitives abilities once thought uniquely human, but no longer. How like us need they be? People used to argue that blacks suffered differently than whites, so harming them didn't really matter. Today, such a claim is odious. But, now we know that the suffering animals endure in the labs, on the factory farms, in zoos, isn't appreciably different than the suffering you or I would exerience if we were similarly treated.
John Brown's terrorism brought on the Civil War and the end of slavery. I say kudos to those throwing the fire bombs and frightening the vivisectors. history will eventually look back and see the defenders of the status quo no differently than we now see the slave owners or the people who keep women in bondage.

Rick Bogle of WI 6:42PM March 11, 2009

Over 20 years ago, I was the IRB Coordinator (Institutional Review Board) at a UCLA-affiliated research hospital that also had an animal research program. I found the treatment the mice received was humane - they were kept in a clean and safe environment and fed proper diets until they were euthanized after drug research protocols using painless injections and not drownings. I raise over a dozen rabbits who I love so much. I care for them like they are my children and I have developed a very deep appreciation for animal life for its intrinsic value as feeling, thinking, decision-making creatures - as deserving to live as humans. While I do not approve infliction of pain or diseases to animals, for example cosmetic firms spray painful substances to the eyes of rabbits to test for ocular sensitivity - there are occasions where their sacrifices are valuable steps prior to human testing protocols. We should certainly use computer technology available to analyze chemicals to determine its likely caustic or systemic toxicities instead of subjecting unwilling animals to testing. Perhaps we should even forego animal testing where informed and willing humans are willing to volunteer. But like it or not, in the real world, where there is no pain, there is likely no gain. How many astronauts have died so we could advance our knowlege of space travel safety? Likewise, unfortunately from time to time, we may have to sacrifice some of our furry friends so more humans may benefit from reduced suffering and more effective cures. It's sad, but sometimes necessary.

Tony Lee of CA 3:57PM March 11, 2009

These violent animal activists are crackpots and liars.
Reasearch animals are treated with the utmost compassion and care. There are many, many regulations university researchers must adhere to in order to even get approval for their experiments. And, they are all monitored at various checkpoints along the way by a myriad of technicians, vets, and animal research committees to ensure their treatment is humane.

Alpha Bitch of CA 2:57PM March 11, 2009