By P. Michael Conn
When overzealous animal rights activists threaten certainly one of America's best-known scientists and educational leaders, he collaborates with an analyst of animal rights to provide a private account of what it truly is prefer to be a scientific researcher exact by way of one of these robust movement. This considerate and excellent publication analyzes the impact of animal extremism at the world's scientists, their associations, societies. P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker learn the motivations of animal rights extremists whereas additionally delving into the altering ways that the general public and felony procedure perspectives animals. The Animal learn War counters the lies propagated by way of extremist animal rights agencies: for instance, the truth that animals include in simple terms 6% of any scientific learn, and intensely little damage involves animals lower than experimentation.
This ebook is an exciting and compelling platform from which to raised comprehend the plight of the fashionable scientist and the danger to clinical development if animal extremism is authorized to win.
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I found four Primate Center investigators on the list of recipients. Being on the Pacific coast and an early riser, I was able to warn them, and we recovered all four envelopes unopened. These were transferred to law enforcement authorities, but to this day we have heard nothing about them. The twelve-month deadline to abandon research programs came and went without incident. This action was intriguing, to say the least. The best-known animal rights organizations trumpet that they take steps to avoid harming humans or animals.
That vivisection is useless . . has cost the antivivisection movement dearly” (Linzey, 24). D ÉJÀ V U A LL OVER A GAIN ? T HE A NIMAL R IGHTS M OVEMENT The contemporary animal rights movement began with a scandal. In 1966, a Life magazine cover story documented deplorable living conditions at the facility of an animal dealer who supplied dogs to research institutions. S. Congress to respond swiftly.
R ICK B OGLE : E VOLUTION OF AN A CTIVIST In Rosebraugh’s undertakings we observed the enlargement of a cause, from single-issue protests to large-scale revolution. Rick Bogle’s endeavors reveal the personal evolution of an extremist. I first spoke with Rick Bogle in 1999, during the weeks that he sat on a plastic lawn chair on the public sidewalk in front of our Primate Center. He was there, of course, to protest primate research. ” He seemed interested in discussion and even allowed me to photograph him.