My hypothetical PETA letter
After getting yet another mailing from PETA claiming that animal experimentation is the devil incarnate, I felt like writing a letter to PETA asking them to stop their mailings and tell them how offended I am by their accusations.And then I read this and decided that it was probably better to throw away their mailing and keep their silly nickel.
But if I were to give a plea on the behalf of biologists everywhere to a non-extremist member of PETA, it would go something like this:
What is wrong about PETA and their agenda is that they assume that everyone doing research is heartless and has no respect for animals. That is completely and wholly untrue. I can't speak for the food and cosmetic industry, but everyone (and I do mean everyone) that I've worked with in labs using animals has felt regret that what they do involves the taking of lives. We try our best to minimize their pain and suffering, and there are serious ramifications if we don't.
We are biologists because we are fascinated by the phenomenon of life and want to know about how it works. I always feel guilty about having to kill animals for dissection and yet enjoy the process of dissecting them, because I had to destroy life to see how it works. However, that's the reality of working to uncover the truth about life itself - in order to study it, you have to destroy it.
And after reading that article, I am extremely saddened that those extremists target university research labs, since those have been the places I've seen great respect for animal life. If those jerks want to target someone, they might as well go after the dairy, meat, and poultry industry, cause even researchers know that they mistreat animals bred for food. Don't go after the people searching for truth, dammit.
posted by sugarfiend @ 8:32 PM
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