Animals Rights Group sets back Autism Research in Italy

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From http://www.nature.com/news/animal-rights-activists-wreak-havoc-in-milan-laboratory-1.12847:

I'd rather they pay *me* to be a test subject than abuse animals in my name.

hooray!

I'm not in favor of animal research like that, but I don't support that kind of activism.

Breaking into a research facility and screwing everything up doesn't help the animals in that research facility... and it does nothing to help change the minds of those who believe in the continuation of such research.

Personally, I think that to change the way things are done in research is going to take respectful dialogue about ethics and the creation of viable alternatives to animal testing.

No problem. It's perfectly ethical to experiment on autistic kids, right?

If that was my research and I had years invested in it, I would likely flip.


They should serve prison time or pay a fine just like anyone else...

It's not acceptable to walk in and ruin someone's career just because you can't handle your emotions.

I think these activists need to really live their philosophy. No using any medicine that was ever tested on animals during it's development. No having any medical procedures done that were ever tested on animals. No taking advantage of any benefits or knowledge gained from animal testing. I doubt seriously that they would ever go that far though and would probably justify it with "that testing happened so long ago that my suffering won't bring them back". While that's a very true statement, I think that before they put their noses in other people's business they need to suffer through some things themselves without using any treatment or medication that some poor little rat died for 50 years ago.

While I think that it's completely unnecessary to do things like spray perfume or hair spray in a bunny's eyes to see if it's irritating, I think that it may be necessary to do it to be able to know how to treat a child who accidentally gets it in their eyes. How many of these activists would willingly let their own child suffer rather than have animal testing done to find cures and treatments?

As for using humans, well that's done. It's called clinical trials. Before they get to that stage though they have to conduct certain tests to find what is even safe to begin with.

If someone is so against animal testing that they want to ruin research that could save lives or increase the quality of life, they need to start at home and do without everything that we have that used animal testing in any form.

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The animal-right group released animals into the wild - animals that could not possibly survive in the wild - because they believe that the freedom of those animals was more important than their lives ... ?

Quegli stupidi, idioti ignoranti!



... e le capre che stradali in su!

Two groups I don't support fighting it out with each other.

I'm fine with some animal research, but I'm not fine with autism research.

Quote from the Nature news article:

"Michela Matteoli, a neurobiologist who works on autism and other disorders and lost most of her own research in the attack, says that she found some research students crying in the disrupted facility on Monday morning.

“It will take three people at least a year to build up the colonies we had of mouse models of different psychiatric diseases,” she says."

Hmm... So now they need to conduct experiments on *even more* mice and rabbits due to the contamination of the research protocols...

... Fail much, animal rights activists?

Animals ARE NOT good models for human neurological/psychological conditions and when we condone animal abuse(and these animals are abused) then that says something very horrifying about us. We are better than allowing animals to suffer so I praise the activists but hope that they were cognizant of the animals' special needs.
Again, NEVER allow innocent creatures to suffer. If you want to volunteer to be a research subject then that is your choice-these animals had no choice and were condemned to a life of pain and suffering for no valid scientific purpose.