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The Relentless Determination of those Volunteers from the Animal and Earth Liberation Fronts Continue into the New Year!!! What follows are some highlights of actions and information taken from various websites.
Animal & Earth Liberation Fronts Continue the Fight
To Liberate the Earth and Animals!
As laws continue fail to protect the earth and animals, courageous people carry on putting their freedom on the line to fight back and liberate. For 30 years (ranging from minor sabotage to arsons from undercover investigations to large-scale liberations) the Animal Liberation Front, and its younger sister the Earth Liberation Front, continue to apply pressure against governments and businesses that are profiting from the selfish, brutal exploitation of animals and the earth. Tens of thousands of actions have taken place around the world yet NO HUMAN OR ANIMAL WAS EVER INJURED OR KILLED IN AN ACTION CLAIMED BY THE ALF/ELF.
To find out more about the A.L.F. - http://www.animalliberation.net
And for the Earth Liberation Front - http://www.earthliberationfront.com
(The following information was taken from the Arkangel website (http://www.arkangelweb.org)
– a publication produced in England.)
UPDATES FROM THE FRONTLINES:
Dec. 2002 England.
During the hours of New Years Eve and well into the following morning members of the Animal Liberation Front broke into Norfolk Cottage Eggs on Magna Rd, Canford Magna, Bournemouth England and took away over 600 battery hens.
We entered the unit via the roof after removing a corrugated panel and, using improvised ladders transported the hens in sacks out and away across adjacent fields to waiting vehicles. Before we left we caused damage and sprayed the walls with appropriate messages.
The whole operation had been planned for weeks and was executed with precision and compassion by the 12 strong team who gained valuable experience and are already planning further raids.
The battery cage system of exploitation is cruel and politicians now agree and so it will be banned in 2012 in Europe. We say civilized societies shouldn't engage in deliberate cruelty and should remove these wild birds from the cages now. Cruel farmers have no defense and should be aware we won't tolerate their outdated ways.
Those farmers who think they have another 9 years to change their ways ought to see what we did on New Years Eve. There is no excuse for animal abuse.
ALF
Dec. 2002 Wales
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 21st December, the Animal Liberation Front raided a Sun Valley turkey supplier saving the lives of 84 turkeys. The turkey farm
in Wales houses thousands of turkeys in crowded windowless sheds. Most of the turkeys were covered in sores and were generally of ill health. Disease is rife and the only freedom is death or liberation. Activists gained entry to one shed by breaking through a roof and unlocking the door to a storeroom. Then the wall to the sheds was smashed through and the activists climbed into the huge sheds. The turkeys were then boxed, carried across three fields, loaded into transit vans and driven to safety. For many animals Christmas means torture. At least this Christmas 84 turkeys have been rehomed to
peacefully live out their natural lives.
From
http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/observer/onews.asp
Dec.2002 England
Animal rights activists look to be the prime suspects following a night of fires and desecration in Stocking Pelham. "Fox killers" was scrawled in red paint over the
village church and a nearby animal feed business — which supplies the Puckeridge Hunt — was razed to the ground in a £250,000 suspect blaze during the early hours of Sunday.
Police and fire experts have launched an inquiry into what happened just days after the Puckeridge Hunt's Boxing Day meet at Brent Pelham. "It's being treated as suspicious at this stage," said a Herts police spokeswoman. "We are investigating a possible link with an anti-hunt slogan that was daubed on a nearby church
Jan. 2003 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
The EARTH LIBERATION FRONT has taken credit for its first action of 2003 with the destruction of several SUVS at a Pennsylvania auto dealership. A communiqué, received by the ELF Press Office, Thursday, claimed an attack on SUVs at the Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury Dealership in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the natural environment. In North America alone since 1997, the ELF has caused over $45 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life.
Communiqué follows:
At 5:30AM on January 1, 2003, the Earth Liberation Front attacked several SUV's at Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury in Erie, Pennsylvania. At least four vehicles were entirely destroyed and several others sustained heavy damage, costing an estimated $90,000.
Despite decades of popular environmental activism, the mainstream environmental movement, which began arguably in the early 1960s, has failed in its attempts to bring about the protection needed to stop the destruction of life on this planet. In many ways, it has served only to accelerate this destruction. It's occasional "victories", reforms or small
concessions, have fostered hope in a means of social change that has proven unable to produce tangible protection of life, time after time.
By focusing it's energy on temporary "solutions", they have altogether ignored the roots of the problem at hand. Western civilization, with it's throw away conveniences, it's status symbols, and it's unfathomable hoards of financial wealth, is unsustainable, and comes at a price. It's pathological decadence, fueled by brutality and oceans of bloodshed, is quickly devouring all life and undermining the very life support systems we all need to survive. The quality of our air, water, and soil continues to decrease as more and more life forms on the planet suffer and die as a result. we are in the midst of a global environmental crisis that adversely effects and directly threatens every human, every animal, every plant, and every other life form on the face of the Earth.
There is absolutely no excuse for any one of us, out of greed, to knowingly allow this to continue. There is a direct relationship between our irresponsible over-consumption and lust for luxury products, and the poverty and destruction of other people and the Natural world. By refusing to acknowledge this simple fact, supporting this paradigm with our excessive lifestyles, and failing to offer direct resistance, we make ourselves accomplices in the greatest crime ever committed.
Time is running out - change must come, or eventually all will be lost. A belief in state sanctioned legal means of social change is a sign of faith in the legal system of that same state. We have absolutely no faith in the legal system of the state when it comes to protecting life, as it has repeatedly shown itself to care far more for the protection of commerce and profits than for its people and the natural environment. Clearly, the state itself causes and profits from many of the various atrocities against life that we must struggle against. To place faith in that same state as though it will act in the interests of justice and life is utter foolishness and a grave mistake.
Therefore, the E.L.F. will continue to fight to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment, and to draw public attention to that which is deliberately concealed from them by the forces that control our lives and destroy our home.
We urge our sisters and brothers - let us strive to become the revolutionary force we've always spoken of being, and begin to take the control of our lives out of the hands of those who would destroy us.
NO COMPROMISE.
Happy New Year Bob Ferrando!
E.L.F.
The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office is a legal, aboveground news service dedicated to exposing the political and social motives behind the covert direct actions of the underground Earth Liberation Front. The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office receives anonymous communiqués from the ELF and distributes the message to the media and public.
Contact:
North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office
elfpress [at] resist.ca
http://www.earthliberationfront.com
January 04, 2003 - Netherlands
Dutch DBF torch chicken slaughterhouse truck.
Claimletter:
In the early beginning of new year the DBF torched a truck of chicken slaughterhouse Welling in Schalkhaar. Also this year the DBF will give no peace to animal abusers.
DBF
the best form of support is direct action!
December 19, Modena, Italy
The ALF liberates 5 beagles
On December the 19th the ALF entered the house of a doghouse volunteer in Modena to liberate 5 beagle puppies that risked being sent to a lab animal farm. These 5 beagle puppies have been found on November 30 near a doghouse in Modena. Someone called the police, thinking these young beagle s could be part of the 99 beagles liberated on November 21 from Morini farm, a notorious lab breeder in Italy. These 5 dogs had no tattoo, so the judge ordered a DNA analysis to know if they were coming from Morini farm. The dogs were waiting this analysis that could bring them to the Morini hellhole, and kept at the house of a doghouse volunteer. On the night of the 19th someone entered the house through a window, took away the dogs and spray painted "Sorry, ALF".
We also received recently an anonymous communiqué for the following action:
December 19, Galeata , Forlì (Italy)
The ALF liberates minks again
At 6.00 pm of December 19th the ALF entered a mink farm in Galeata , Forlì, to open the cages and free the animals. 100 meters of fence have been opened, and after that the activists have begun opening the cages. It seems many sheds were empty, and the killing had already begun, made clear by pyres of corpses seen burning. Four sheds full of minks have been completely emptied by the activists before the farmer unexpectedly arrived on place (he had never been seen there at that time). The activists had a lookout and could leave the place with no problems. They could not finish the action , but they stated a lot of breeding mothers has been freed, creating surely problems and losses to the farmer. In their communiqué they said graffiti made during a previous action was still visible on place! In fact, in October 2001 the ALF liberated 10.000 minks in that same farm.
We also received the following anonymous communiqué in these days:
"During the last week of November and the first of December various Shell garages have been sabbed (sabotaged) all around the city of Torino. On December 17 2002 at 10.30 pm the entrance and the bell of Sumitomo in via Cavour 1, Torino, have been glued and painted. A leaflet explaining the reason of the action has been left on place so they all know who their neighbors are!!!
21/12/2002 Sumitomo in Via Cavour 1, Torino, has been visited again, with glue and paint."
January 9, 2003
ELF TARGETS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA - In what was likely its final act of 2002, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed an action in Northeast Philadelphia targeting urban sprawl and the development of "luxury houses". Construction vehicles and a show home were damaged by "long-time residents of Philadelphia... who are tired of seeing the earth destroyed for money".
The letter claiming the action went on to say, "We pray the destruction of developers in Philadelphia/the suburbs is stopped - and that our kids don't grow up in a concrete world, built over ashes of the destroyed earth."
The ELF Press Office received the letter of claim (attached below) via a Philadelphia newspaper. Although the letter does not claim this as an ELF action, graffiti at the housing development site indicates that this was the work of the ELF. This action took place December 28th, 2002.
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the natural environment. In North America alone since 1997, the ELF has caused over $45 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life.
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Letter to Editor / Media Release
Greetings. Recently, we visited a housing construction site in Northeast Philadelphia, along Rhawn St., to give a Christmas present to the developers. There, what was natural land - and a home for birds, squirrels, deer, etcetera - is now a sprawling pit of mud. Others attempts at stopping this devastation failed; we felt the only thing we could do, and the thing that felt right, was to fight back for those who cant. So we went to the site and attacked construction vehicles however we were able to - glued locks, sugared
gas tanks, disconnected hoses, spray painted vehicles, broke windows. Also we attacked the "sample house" on Rhawn St. - the first house built, to attract buyers. We covered the walls in spray paint, glued locks, and broke many windows.
We are not "terrorists." We are not teenage vandals. We are middle-aged, long-time residents of Philadelphia/the suburbs who are tired of seeing the earth destroyed for money. New housing units (and these are "luxury houses," starting at $200,000) are not needed; tens of thousands of housing units in Philadelphia are vacant, or for sale. There is no excuse for the terrorism of developers, destroying the little bit of natural land left for money.
We will not sign our names, but we want to. If construction is stopped and the woods allowed to grow back, we will turn ourselves in gladly. We pray the destruction of developers in Philadelphia/the suburbs is stopped - and that our kids don't grow up in a concrete world, built over ashes of the destroyed earth.
"Sally and Peter" Philadelphia/suburbs <end>
You can now view several actions by the A.L.F.!
1. Scott Nelson Mink farm raid - Ellsworth, IA 10.16.01 ~ 2000 mink released
2. Marshall Farms Breeders - North Rose, NY 12.05.01 ~ 30 beagles, 10 ferrets liberated
3. Rabbit Breeder - Easter liberation, mid 90's
Visit http://www.directaction.info/index.htm and go to Bite Back TV.
Excerpt from interview with David Barbarash, ex-press officer for the North American A.L.F. To view full interview visit: http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/feature.cfm?ID=116&issue=v22n2
Derrick Jensen: How do you respond to the label you get so often in the corporate press, about being ecoterrorists or animal rights terrorists?
David Barbarash: I completely reject the terrorist label. People who have a vested interest in abusing or killing animals aren’t going to want to understand what the ALF is about, and will try to make sure no one else understands either. So they paint ALF or ELF activists as terrorists. But here’s my question for them: Where’s the body count? Show me the people who’ve died or even been injured as a result of animal liberation actions. Show me even a firefighter injured putting out a blaze caused by the ALF. They can’t, because no one has ever been injured. I’ll tell you what has happened, though. Activists have been bombed. Activists have been shot. I can show you people who’ve been beaten up and put into the hospital at regular fur protests, and people who’ve had all their teeth knocked out with baseball bats. I can tell you about ALF activists who’ve been shot in the back.
DJ: It seems the level of effort that goes into squelching the ALF is often out of scale with the damage—and I’m thinking of the liberations and sabotage—they actually do.
DB: The level of repression is out of scale only if you use a common-sense philosophy of how the world should work. The ALF may not be dangerous in terms of actual damage we cause, although we have caused millions of dollars of damage to industries like fur farming, but we’re very dangerous philosophically. Part of the danger is that we don’t buy into the illusion that property is worth more than life, which is one of the fundamental and generally unstated assumptions of our culture. We bring that insane priority into the light, which is something the system cannot survive.
DJ: What would you hope ALF and ELF actions ultimately lead to?
DB: I’d hope they lead to a larger number of people understanding that it doesn’t take a special person to take action, that anyone can take action, and that we have a moral responsibility and obligation to take action against torture and abuse, whether of humans, nonhumans or our environment. Our planet is being killed, animal species are being killed, and we have a responsibility to stop this killing any way we can.
I would hope that after hearing about the action at Vail, some people would stop and think, "Wow, some people felt strongly enough about the lynx that they burned down five structures thousands of feet up a mountain and got away with it." I would hope a lot of people would be inspired by that, and they would take action on the issues that are close to their own hearts. I would hope that these actions would cause them to stop and think about their own lives. How many people are disgusted by slaughterhouses? If a couple of normal, everyday people can go into a slaughterhouse and remove chickens—give these chickens lives—and in so doing make a strong statement of their opposition to those kinds of horrendous crimes against nature, then anybody can do it.
Excerpt taken from "Dykes for Animal Rights" from the lesbian magazine DIVA
http://www.katrinafox.com/divaanimal.htm
Although she hasn't committed any criminal acts herself, Norma (age 73) is a strong supporter of militant direct-action group the Animal Liberation Front. "Everything will go to them when I die," she says. As a radical feminist, she firmly believes that direct action, such as setting fire to buildings where animal abuse is taking place, is perfectly acceptable. "If I were younger, I'd light the match myself," she says passionately…
Despite the predominantly male-dominated image of animal rights activism, Melanie says that most of the ALF cells she has worked with have been primarily made up of women, who are better at planning and organizing. "Many of the women involved in direct action came from Greenham Common," she says. "In fact, the older women are much more militant than the younger ones."
In 1995 Melanie was sentenced to three and a half years for burning down an abattoir and blowing up 12 meat lorries in Gloucestershire. Friendly, positive and articulate, she is nothing like the violent terrorist the government would have us believe in. In fact, she explains, her actions were not violent. "A building doesn't have a nervous system, therefore it doesn't feel pain, so how can setting fire to it be a violent act?"
She justifies her actions by comparing the struggle to end animal abuse to other civil rights movements. "It is an animal holocaust - no one would complain if the Nazis were put out of a job because their (place of) work was destroyed. We are doing nothing different to what the black or women's movements did - there were arsons, direct action and building destruction as (part of the campaigns for) women getting the vote or blacks being freed from slavery."
AND FINALLY:
Robin Webb, 58, the UK Press Officer for the Animal Liberation Front, has booked numerous speaking engagements around the USA. Mr. Webb is currently barred from returning home to England after he was forced to surrender his passport as part of bail conditions after being arrested at a protest against Huntington Life Sciences laboratory. He is now exercising his right to free speech to applaud the activities of the ALF.
Mr. Webb’s speaking dates are scheduled as follows:
January 12, San Francisco, CA, 8pm - 1884 Market Street
January 19, Long Island, NY, 8pm Witches Brew Café, 311 Hempstead Tpk.
West Hempstead, Long Island
January 25/26, Washington, D.C., 4:40pm National Conference on Organized Resistance, American U., Ward 2, Ward Circle Building 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
http://www.organizedresistance.org/
(Robin Webb, UK press officer for the radical Animal Liberation Front will explain why it is both justifiable and necessary to break the law in pursuit of what he terms "the ultimate liberation struggle", why the news media is not a friend to radical activism and why we will succeed regardless of State oppression.
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The Legitimacy of Underground Resistance to Defend Earth in a Post-9/11 World
Rod Coronado: This workshop will be a forum discussion on the realities of repression faced by the Earth and Animal Liberation Front and their supporters since September 11th, 2001 and whether the above ground movements to protect animals and the environment are ready to recognize these two groups as legitimate arms of their struggle. This workshop will also address the corporate media's role in dividing support for illegal action and its labelling of such acts as "terrorism".)
January 30, Philadelphia, PA, 8pm Civic House, 3914 Locust Walk
February 7-9, Texas Specific date, time, and location TBA
He will also speak in Boston and Seattle. Dates are TBA.
A few other recommended websites to visit:
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk
http://www.shac.net
http://www.shacamerica.net
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To Liberate the Earth and Animals!
As laws continue fail to protect the earth and animals, courageous people carry on putting their freedom on the line to fight back and liberate. For 30 years (ranging from minor sabotage to arsons from undercover investigations to large-scale liberations) the Animal Liberation Front, and its younger sister the Earth Liberation Front, continue to apply pressure against governments and businesses that are profiting from the selfish, brutal exploitation of animals and the earth. Tens of thousands of actions have taken place around the world yet NO HUMAN OR ANIMAL WAS EVER INJURED OR KILLED IN AN ACTION CLAIMED BY THE ALF/ELF.
To find out more about the A.L.F. - http://www.animalliberation.net
And for the Earth Liberation Front - http://www.earthliberationfront.com
(The following information was taken from the Arkangel website (http://www.arkangelweb.org)
– a publication produced in England.)
UPDATES FROM THE FRONTLINES:
Dec. 2002 England.
During the hours of New Years Eve and well into the following morning members of the Animal Liberation Front broke into Norfolk Cottage Eggs on Magna Rd, Canford Magna, Bournemouth England and took away over 600 battery hens.
We entered the unit via the roof after removing a corrugated panel and, using improvised ladders transported the hens in sacks out and away across adjacent fields to waiting vehicles. Before we left we caused damage and sprayed the walls with appropriate messages.
The whole operation had been planned for weeks and was executed with precision and compassion by the 12 strong team who gained valuable experience and are already planning further raids.
The battery cage system of exploitation is cruel and politicians now agree and so it will be banned in 2012 in Europe. We say civilized societies shouldn't engage in deliberate cruelty and should remove these wild birds from the cages now. Cruel farmers have no defense and should be aware we won't tolerate their outdated ways.
Those farmers who think they have another 9 years to change their ways ought to see what we did on New Years Eve. There is no excuse for animal abuse.
ALF
Dec. 2002 Wales
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 21st December, the Animal Liberation Front raided a Sun Valley turkey supplier saving the lives of 84 turkeys. The turkey farm
in Wales houses thousands of turkeys in crowded windowless sheds. Most of the turkeys were covered in sores and were generally of ill health. Disease is rife and the only freedom is death or liberation. Activists gained entry to one shed by breaking through a roof and unlocking the door to a storeroom. Then the wall to the sheds was smashed through and the activists climbed into the huge sheds. The turkeys were then boxed, carried across three fields, loaded into transit vans and driven to safety. For many animals Christmas means torture. At least this Christmas 84 turkeys have been rehomed to
peacefully live out their natural lives.
From
http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/observer/onews.asp
Dec.2002 England
Animal rights activists look to be the prime suspects following a night of fires and desecration in Stocking Pelham. "Fox killers" was scrawled in red paint over the
village church and a nearby animal feed business — which supplies the Puckeridge Hunt — was razed to the ground in a £250,000 suspect blaze during the early hours of Sunday.
Police and fire experts have launched an inquiry into what happened just days after the Puckeridge Hunt's Boxing Day meet at Brent Pelham. "It's being treated as suspicious at this stage," said a Herts police spokeswoman. "We are investigating a possible link with an anti-hunt slogan that was daubed on a nearby church
Jan. 2003 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
The EARTH LIBERATION FRONT has taken credit for its first action of 2003 with the destruction of several SUVS at a Pennsylvania auto dealership. A communiqué, received by the ELF Press Office, Thursday, claimed an attack on SUVs at the Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury Dealership in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the natural environment. In North America alone since 1997, the ELF has caused over $45 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life.
Communiqué follows:
At 5:30AM on January 1, 2003, the Earth Liberation Front attacked several SUV's at Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury in Erie, Pennsylvania. At least four vehicles were entirely destroyed and several others sustained heavy damage, costing an estimated $90,000.
Despite decades of popular environmental activism, the mainstream environmental movement, which began arguably in the early 1960s, has failed in its attempts to bring about the protection needed to stop the destruction of life on this planet. In many ways, it has served only to accelerate this destruction. It's occasional "victories", reforms or small
concessions, have fostered hope in a means of social change that has proven unable to produce tangible protection of life, time after time.
By focusing it's energy on temporary "solutions", they have altogether ignored the roots of the problem at hand. Western civilization, with it's throw away conveniences, it's status symbols, and it's unfathomable hoards of financial wealth, is unsustainable, and comes at a price. It's pathological decadence, fueled by brutality and oceans of bloodshed, is quickly devouring all life and undermining the very life support systems we all need to survive. The quality of our air, water, and soil continues to decrease as more and more life forms on the planet suffer and die as a result. we are in the midst of a global environmental crisis that adversely effects and directly threatens every human, every animal, every plant, and every other life form on the face of the Earth.
There is absolutely no excuse for any one of us, out of greed, to knowingly allow this to continue. There is a direct relationship between our irresponsible over-consumption and lust for luxury products, and the poverty and destruction of other people and the Natural world. By refusing to acknowledge this simple fact, supporting this paradigm with our excessive lifestyles, and failing to offer direct resistance, we make ourselves accomplices in the greatest crime ever committed.
Time is running out - change must come, or eventually all will be lost. A belief in state sanctioned legal means of social change is a sign of faith in the legal system of that same state. We have absolutely no faith in the legal system of the state when it comes to protecting life, as it has repeatedly shown itself to care far more for the protection of commerce and profits than for its people and the natural environment. Clearly, the state itself causes and profits from many of the various atrocities against life that we must struggle against. To place faith in that same state as though it will act in the interests of justice and life is utter foolishness and a grave mistake.
Therefore, the E.L.F. will continue to fight to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment, and to draw public attention to that which is deliberately concealed from them by the forces that control our lives and destroy our home.
We urge our sisters and brothers - let us strive to become the revolutionary force we've always spoken of being, and begin to take the control of our lives out of the hands of those who would destroy us.
NO COMPROMISE.
Happy New Year Bob Ferrando!
E.L.F.
The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office is a legal, aboveground news service dedicated to exposing the political and social motives behind the covert direct actions of the underground Earth Liberation Front. The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office receives anonymous communiqués from the ELF and distributes the message to the media and public.
Contact:
North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office
elfpress [at] resist.ca
http://www.earthliberationfront.com
January 04, 2003 - Netherlands
Dutch DBF torch chicken slaughterhouse truck.
Claimletter:
In the early beginning of new year the DBF torched a truck of chicken slaughterhouse Welling in Schalkhaar. Also this year the DBF will give no peace to animal abusers.
DBF
the best form of support is direct action!
December 19, Modena, Italy
The ALF liberates 5 beagles
On December the 19th the ALF entered the house of a doghouse volunteer in Modena to liberate 5 beagle puppies that risked being sent to a lab animal farm. These 5 beagle puppies have been found on November 30 near a doghouse in Modena. Someone called the police, thinking these young beagle s could be part of the 99 beagles liberated on November 21 from Morini farm, a notorious lab breeder in Italy. These 5 dogs had no tattoo, so the judge ordered a DNA analysis to know if they were coming from Morini farm. The dogs were waiting this analysis that could bring them to the Morini hellhole, and kept at the house of a doghouse volunteer. On the night of the 19th someone entered the house through a window, took away the dogs and spray painted "Sorry, ALF".
We also received recently an anonymous communiqué for the following action:
December 19, Galeata , Forlì (Italy)
The ALF liberates minks again
At 6.00 pm of December 19th the ALF entered a mink farm in Galeata , Forlì, to open the cages and free the animals. 100 meters of fence have been opened, and after that the activists have begun opening the cages. It seems many sheds were empty, and the killing had already begun, made clear by pyres of corpses seen burning. Four sheds full of minks have been completely emptied by the activists before the farmer unexpectedly arrived on place (he had never been seen there at that time). The activists had a lookout and could leave the place with no problems. They could not finish the action , but they stated a lot of breeding mothers has been freed, creating surely problems and losses to the farmer. In their communiqué they said graffiti made during a previous action was still visible on place! In fact, in October 2001 the ALF liberated 10.000 minks in that same farm.
We also received the following anonymous communiqué in these days:
"During the last week of November and the first of December various Shell garages have been sabbed (sabotaged) all around the city of Torino. On December 17 2002 at 10.30 pm the entrance and the bell of Sumitomo in via Cavour 1, Torino, have been glued and painted. A leaflet explaining the reason of the action has been left on place so they all know who their neighbors are!!!
21/12/2002 Sumitomo in Via Cavour 1, Torino, has been visited again, with glue and paint."
January 9, 2003
ELF TARGETS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA - In what was likely its final act of 2002, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed an action in Northeast Philadelphia targeting urban sprawl and the development of "luxury houses". Construction vehicles and a show home were damaged by "long-time residents of Philadelphia... who are tired of seeing the earth destroyed for money".
The letter claiming the action went on to say, "We pray the destruction of developers in Philadelphia/the suburbs is stopped - and that our kids don't grow up in a concrete world, built over ashes of the destroyed earth."
The ELF Press Office received the letter of claim (attached below) via a Philadelphia newspaper. Although the letter does not claim this as an ELF action, graffiti at the housing development site indicates that this was the work of the ELF. This action took place December 28th, 2002.
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the destruction of the natural environment. In North America alone since 1997, the ELF has caused over $45 million in damages to entities who profit from the destruction of life.
<begin>
Letter to Editor / Media Release
Greetings. Recently, we visited a housing construction site in Northeast Philadelphia, along Rhawn St., to give a Christmas present to the developers. There, what was natural land - and a home for birds, squirrels, deer, etcetera - is now a sprawling pit of mud. Others attempts at stopping this devastation failed; we felt the only thing we could do, and the thing that felt right, was to fight back for those who cant. So we went to the site and attacked construction vehicles however we were able to - glued locks, sugared
gas tanks, disconnected hoses, spray painted vehicles, broke windows. Also we attacked the "sample house" on Rhawn St. - the first house built, to attract buyers. We covered the walls in spray paint, glued locks, and broke many windows.
We are not "terrorists." We are not teenage vandals. We are middle-aged, long-time residents of Philadelphia/the suburbs who are tired of seeing the earth destroyed for money. New housing units (and these are "luxury houses," starting at $200,000) are not needed; tens of thousands of housing units in Philadelphia are vacant, or for sale. There is no excuse for the terrorism of developers, destroying the little bit of natural land left for money.
We will not sign our names, but we want to. If construction is stopped and the woods allowed to grow back, we will turn ourselves in gladly. We pray the destruction of developers in Philadelphia/the suburbs is stopped - and that our kids don't grow up in a concrete world, built over ashes of the destroyed earth.
"Sally and Peter" Philadelphia/suburbs <end>
You can now view several actions by the A.L.F.!
1. Scott Nelson Mink farm raid - Ellsworth, IA 10.16.01 ~ 2000 mink released
2. Marshall Farms Breeders - North Rose, NY 12.05.01 ~ 30 beagles, 10 ferrets liberated
3. Rabbit Breeder - Easter liberation, mid 90's
Visit http://www.directaction.info/index.htm and go to Bite Back TV.
Excerpt from interview with David Barbarash, ex-press officer for the North American A.L.F. To view full interview visit: http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/feature.cfm?ID=116&issue=v22n2
Derrick Jensen: How do you respond to the label you get so often in the corporate press, about being ecoterrorists or animal rights terrorists?
David Barbarash: I completely reject the terrorist label. People who have a vested interest in abusing or killing animals aren’t going to want to understand what the ALF is about, and will try to make sure no one else understands either. So they paint ALF or ELF activists as terrorists. But here’s my question for them: Where’s the body count? Show me the people who’ve died or even been injured as a result of animal liberation actions. Show me even a firefighter injured putting out a blaze caused by the ALF. They can’t, because no one has ever been injured. I’ll tell you what has happened, though. Activists have been bombed. Activists have been shot. I can show you people who’ve been beaten up and put into the hospital at regular fur protests, and people who’ve had all their teeth knocked out with baseball bats. I can tell you about ALF activists who’ve been shot in the back.
DJ: It seems the level of effort that goes into squelching the ALF is often out of scale with the damage—and I’m thinking of the liberations and sabotage—they actually do.
DB: The level of repression is out of scale only if you use a common-sense philosophy of how the world should work. The ALF may not be dangerous in terms of actual damage we cause, although we have caused millions of dollars of damage to industries like fur farming, but we’re very dangerous philosophically. Part of the danger is that we don’t buy into the illusion that property is worth more than life, which is one of the fundamental and generally unstated assumptions of our culture. We bring that insane priority into the light, which is something the system cannot survive.
DJ: What would you hope ALF and ELF actions ultimately lead to?
DB: I’d hope they lead to a larger number of people understanding that it doesn’t take a special person to take action, that anyone can take action, and that we have a moral responsibility and obligation to take action against torture and abuse, whether of humans, nonhumans or our environment. Our planet is being killed, animal species are being killed, and we have a responsibility to stop this killing any way we can.
I would hope that after hearing about the action at Vail, some people would stop and think, "Wow, some people felt strongly enough about the lynx that they burned down five structures thousands of feet up a mountain and got away with it." I would hope a lot of people would be inspired by that, and they would take action on the issues that are close to their own hearts. I would hope that these actions would cause them to stop and think about their own lives. How many people are disgusted by slaughterhouses? If a couple of normal, everyday people can go into a slaughterhouse and remove chickens—give these chickens lives—and in so doing make a strong statement of their opposition to those kinds of horrendous crimes against nature, then anybody can do it.
Excerpt taken from "Dykes for Animal Rights" from the lesbian magazine DIVA
http://www.katrinafox.com/divaanimal.htm
Although she hasn't committed any criminal acts herself, Norma (age 73) is a strong supporter of militant direct-action group the Animal Liberation Front. "Everything will go to them when I die," she says. As a radical feminist, she firmly believes that direct action, such as setting fire to buildings where animal abuse is taking place, is perfectly acceptable. "If I were younger, I'd light the match myself," she says passionately…
Despite the predominantly male-dominated image of animal rights activism, Melanie says that most of the ALF cells she has worked with have been primarily made up of women, who are better at planning and organizing. "Many of the women involved in direct action came from Greenham Common," she says. "In fact, the older women are much more militant than the younger ones."
In 1995 Melanie was sentenced to three and a half years for burning down an abattoir and blowing up 12 meat lorries in Gloucestershire. Friendly, positive and articulate, she is nothing like the violent terrorist the government would have us believe in. In fact, she explains, her actions were not violent. "A building doesn't have a nervous system, therefore it doesn't feel pain, so how can setting fire to it be a violent act?"
She justifies her actions by comparing the struggle to end animal abuse to other civil rights movements. "It is an animal holocaust - no one would complain if the Nazis were put out of a job because their (place of) work was destroyed. We are doing nothing different to what the black or women's movements did - there were arsons, direct action and building destruction as (part of the campaigns for) women getting the vote or blacks being freed from slavery."
AND FINALLY:
Robin Webb, 58, the UK Press Officer for the Animal Liberation Front, has booked numerous speaking engagements around the USA. Mr. Webb is currently barred from returning home to England after he was forced to surrender his passport as part of bail conditions after being arrested at a protest against Huntington Life Sciences laboratory. He is now exercising his right to free speech to applaud the activities of the ALF.
Mr. Webb’s speaking dates are scheduled as follows:
January 12, San Francisco, CA, 8pm - 1884 Market Street
January 19, Long Island, NY, 8pm Witches Brew Café, 311 Hempstead Tpk.
West Hempstead, Long Island
January 25/26, Washington, D.C., 4:40pm National Conference on Organized Resistance, American U., Ward 2, Ward Circle Building 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
http://www.organizedresistance.org/
(Robin Webb, UK press officer for the radical Animal Liberation Front will explain why it is both justifiable and necessary to break the law in pursuit of what he terms "the ultimate liberation struggle", why the news media is not a friend to radical activism and why we will succeed regardless of State oppression.
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The Legitimacy of Underground Resistance to Defend Earth in a Post-9/11 World
Rod Coronado: This workshop will be a forum discussion on the realities of repression faced by the Earth and Animal Liberation Front and their supporters since September 11th, 2001 and whether the above ground movements to protect animals and the environment are ready to recognize these two groups as legitimate arms of their struggle. This workshop will also address the corporate media's role in dividing support for illegal action and its labelling of such acts as "terrorism".)
January 30, Philadelphia, PA, 8pm Civic House, 3914 Locust Walk
February 7-9, Texas Specific date, time, and location TBA
He will also speak in Boston and Seattle. Dates are TBA.
A few other recommended websites to visit:
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http://www.shacamerica.net
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Dang, nessie, I never thought I'd agree with you. Fire away.
I kinda like having the most advanced medical community on the planet.
Regretfully it takes animal research to deal with aids, hepatitis, etc. We could use death row prisoners but that might upset people..
You can go to somalia and give the witchdoctors a try.
The end is worth the means..
Regretfully it takes animal research to deal with aids, hepatitis, etc. We could use death row prisoners but that might upset people..
You can go to somalia and give the witchdoctors a try.
The end is worth the means..
I guess for the rich and insured it's nice to sacrifice innocent animals to extend your life and allow you to suck all the resources from the planet. the arrogance of citizens in the US is disgusting. what in fact does the average american know about the economics of the medical profession? i doubt that a lot of the research at this point in time is beneficial. in fact it's bullshit, but hey i guess your all to privileged to see how fuck up your logic is. what have you done lately to get simple five dollar anti-biotics to people who don't have potable water and are dying from dehydration because they have diahreia9(sp?)? gotta love the anthropocentric view points that humans are the only thing on the planet worth protecting.
torture is bad, medical research is skewed....
torture is bad, medical research is skewed....
until you know what my background is and what sort of time i have spent in a lab working in the science field and that i choose to spend more time outside experiencing the living world verses the electron world, get off your high fucking horse.
am glad your an over intellectual who can refute any logic or response to your human arrogance, doesn't mean you or I are right. Torturing animals is wrong.
As for science and the failure of it to diagnosis real answers, am glad your able to defend there money making schemes and that only the rich and powerful are able to access them. Medicine for the rich and elitist, but not for the poor. Your a classist facist.
But as I can see, your a know it all who has the time to read up on every subject and chooses to believe your self serving attitude gets you somewhere in life. Sorry you have relatives who are dying and your failing to look at why the health risks associated with those illnesses are making you a self rightous human.
Get away from your computer and spend time outdoors, you might learn something that electrons on a screen can't teach you.
am glad your an over intellectual who can refute any logic or response to your human arrogance, doesn't mean you or I are right. Torturing animals is wrong.
As for science and the failure of it to diagnosis real answers, am glad your able to defend there money making schemes and that only the rich and powerful are able to access them. Medicine for the rich and elitist, but not for the poor. Your a classist facist.
But as I can see, your a know it all who has the time to read up on every subject and chooses to believe your self serving attitude gets you somewhere in life. Sorry you have relatives who are dying and your failing to look at why the health risks associated with those illnesses are making you a self rightous human.
Get away from your computer and spend time outdoors, you might learn something that electrons on a screen can't teach you.
Because I am critical of animal testing and it's flaws(by the way my shit stinks, no one is perfect, well i guess you are) that makes me anti-human. Your so full of it. One can only work on so many issues or become educated on so many subjects, but from what I know of and the doctors I know, the politics of animal testing is about greed. That I am opposed to, and it doesn't make me anti-human or some supreme animal rights activist either. Don't try and pigeon hole everyone. Again, go spend time outdoors cause I think the superficial world your head is stuck in has your logic skewed as well. Nanny nanny, my stick's bigger than yours is bullshit.................
"what" you're lame accussing people of being "uneducated" and barely having an elementary school level of writing and spelling skills.
Anyway, I totally disagree with you and am pleased that Nessie has totally destroyed your argument. You have convinced me--and I'm sure many others--of the utter failure of the animal rights cause.
"what" you really need to learn first is how to use a dictionary. Your writing level indicates that you read at a level no higher than a child. Educate yourself and don't come back on this site to argue until you have.
B
Anyway, I totally disagree with you and am pleased that Nessie has totally destroyed your argument. You have convinced me--and I'm sure many others--of the utter failure of the animal rights cause.
"what" you really need to learn first is how to use a dictionary. Your writing level indicates that you read at a level no higher than a child. Educate yourself and don't come back on this site to argue until you have.
B
First off, I can see the elitism going on in these threads. But I personally don't give a shit whether one uses a spell checker or not. No one addressed the medicine for the rich and powerful, but those who can't afford it, so sad debate. But sinse I don't have time to deal with arrogance and self righteous liberals, here's some info on the non extreme. By the way, come and try and take my dog to torture it for your self serving needs and I will find the gun I use to hunt with. And typically I believe in being a peaceful person, but you nutcakes and your self righteous attitude pose a threat to humanity and decency........I still say the protests and direct action exist because of greed and that's my opinion. Oh i guess that I'm not entitled to it on this website............ Direct action is what it takes for you intellects to get creative and find other solutions to animal testing and torture.
Pharmagene Laboratories, based in Royston, England, is the first company to use only human tissues and sophisticated computer technologies in the process of drug development and testing. With tools from molecular biology, biochemistry, and analytical pharmacology, Pharmagene conducts extensive studies of human genes and how drugs affect these genes or the proteins they make. While some companies have used animal tissues for this purpose, Pharmagene scientists believe that the discovery process is much more efficient with human tissues. “If you have information on human genes, what's the point of going back to animals?” says Pharmagene cofounder Gordon Baxter.(1)
Instead of dripping chemicals into animals’ eyes to test toxicity, researchers can now grow a thin layer of cells on a membrane and monitor changes in electrical resistance in the cells as they are exposed to test chemicals.(2)
Avon Products, Inc., which until June of 1989 killed about 24,000 animals a year to test its products, now uses many non-animal tests, including the Irritation Assay System (formerly known as Eytex and Skintex) and an in vitro test used to assess irritancy levels of substances. It mimics the reaction of the cornea and human skin when exposed to foreign substances and can be used to determine the toxicity of more than 5,000 different materials.
Corrositex is an in vitro test approved by the Department of Transportation as a substitute for the traditional rabbit skin test. The test assesses corrosivity using a protein membrane designed to function like skin. The method gives results in just a few hours for as little as $100 per test.(3)
Three companies have developed artificial “human skin” which can be used in skin grafts for burn victims and other patients and can replace animals in product tests.(4)
Scientists can also use mathematical and computer models, based on physical and chemical structures and properties of a substance, to make predictions about the toxicity of a substance. One such software package, TOPKAT, which predicts oral toxicity and skin and eye irritation, is used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Army.
Using computers, scientists have built an accurate working model of a human heart that will allow researchers to test new treatments electronically before they are attempted on humans. Computerized “virtual organs” predict how drugs will be absorbed and metabolized, so drug companies can now test the effects of substances electronically before ever trying them on a person.
Other toxicological test kits allow drugmakers and cosmetics manufacturers to run tests that indicate whether the compounds used in products will cause cancer or other medical problems. Using integrated molecular assay systems that show how human and animal bacterial cells react when exposed to various compounds, the kits allow manufacturers to test thousands of potentially toxic compounds a year more quickly and cheaply than the compounds could be tested through the use of animals.(5)
More and more medical students are becoming conscientious objectors, and many students now graduate without having used animals; instead, they learn by assisting experienced surgeons. In Great Britain, it is against the law for medical students to practice surgery on animals, and many of the leading U.S. medical schools, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, now use innovative, clinical teaching methods instead of old-fashioned animal laboratories. Harvard, for instance, offers a Cardiac Anesthesia Practicum, where students observe human heart bypass operations instead of dog labs.
1.Reuters, “British Company Pioneers Non-Animal Tests,” 29 Aug. 1996.
2. “New Toxicity Test Designed to Spare Laboratory Animals,” Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 1996.
3. Wade Roush, “Hunting for Animal Alternatives,” Science, 11 Oct. 1996, p. 168.
4. Lawrence M. Fisher, “3 Companies Speed Artificial Skin,” The New York Times, 12 Sep. 1990.
5. David Algeo, “Big Plans on Tap for Xenometrix,” Denver Post, 18 Oct. 1996.
Pharmagene Laboratories, based in Royston, England, is the first company to use only human tissues and sophisticated computer technologies in the process of drug development and testing. With tools from molecular biology, biochemistry, and analytical pharmacology, Pharmagene conducts extensive studies of human genes and how drugs affect these genes or the proteins they make. While some companies have used animal tissues for this purpose, Pharmagene scientists believe that the discovery process is much more efficient with human tissues. “If you have information on human genes, what's the point of going back to animals?” says Pharmagene cofounder Gordon Baxter.(1)
Instead of dripping chemicals into animals’ eyes to test toxicity, researchers can now grow a thin layer of cells on a membrane and monitor changes in electrical resistance in the cells as they are exposed to test chemicals.(2)
Avon Products, Inc., which until June of 1989 killed about 24,000 animals a year to test its products, now uses many non-animal tests, including the Irritation Assay System (formerly known as Eytex and Skintex) and an in vitro test used to assess irritancy levels of substances. It mimics the reaction of the cornea and human skin when exposed to foreign substances and can be used to determine the toxicity of more than 5,000 different materials.
Corrositex is an in vitro test approved by the Department of Transportation as a substitute for the traditional rabbit skin test. The test assesses corrosivity using a protein membrane designed to function like skin. The method gives results in just a few hours for as little as $100 per test.(3)
Three companies have developed artificial “human skin” which can be used in skin grafts for burn victims and other patients and can replace animals in product tests.(4)
Scientists can also use mathematical and computer models, based on physical and chemical structures and properties of a substance, to make predictions about the toxicity of a substance. One such software package, TOPKAT, which predicts oral toxicity and skin and eye irritation, is used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Army.
Using computers, scientists have built an accurate working model of a human heart that will allow researchers to test new treatments electronically before they are attempted on humans. Computerized “virtual organs” predict how drugs will be absorbed and metabolized, so drug companies can now test the effects of substances electronically before ever trying them on a person.
Other toxicological test kits allow drugmakers and cosmetics manufacturers to run tests that indicate whether the compounds used in products will cause cancer or other medical problems. Using integrated molecular assay systems that show how human and animal bacterial cells react when exposed to various compounds, the kits allow manufacturers to test thousands of potentially toxic compounds a year more quickly and cheaply than the compounds could be tested through the use of animals.(5)
More and more medical students are becoming conscientious objectors, and many students now graduate without having used animals; instead, they learn by assisting experienced surgeons. In Great Britain, it is against the law for medical students to practice surgery on animals, and many of the leading U.S. medical schools, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, now use innovative, clinical teaching methods instead of old-fashioned animal laboratories. Harvard, for instance, offers a Cardiac Anesthesia Practicum, where students observe human heart bypass operations instead of dog labs.
1.Reuters, “British Company Pioneers Non-Animal Tests,” 29 Aug. 1996.
2. “New Toxicity Test Designed to Spare Laboratory Animals,” Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 1996.
3. Wade Roush, “Hunting for Animal Alternatives,” Science, 11 Oct. 1996, p. 168.
4. Lawrence M. Fisher, “3 Companies Speed Artificial Skin,” The New York Times, 12 Sep. 1990.
5. David Algeo, “Big Plans on Tap for Xenometrix,” Denver Post, 18 Oct. 1996.
Animal testing is a disaster:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,495634,00.html
Flawed Science
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/pseudoscience.html
http://caat.jhsph.edu/programs/workshops/testsmart/endo2/stephens.htm
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/u-epa.html
http://britell.com/use/use20.html
http://www.biotech-info.net/flawed_science.html
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/press_releases/00_04_18btext.htm
http://www.maps.org/media/eisforevidence.html
Info from physicians criticizing your claims of science in the name of animal testing:
http://www.pcrm.org/issues/Animal_Experimentation_Issues/hpv_report.html
Leasing the Ivory Tower, The Corporate Takeover of Academia; Lawrence C. Soley. 1998, South End Press; Cambridge, MA; 7 Brookline Street, #1; Cambridge, MA 02139-4146
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,495634,00.html
Flawed Science
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/pseudoscience.html
http://caat.jhsph.edu/programs/workshops/testsmart/endo2/stephens.htm
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/u-epa.html
http://britell.com/use/use20.html
http://www.biotech-info.net/flawed_science.html
http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/press_releases/00_04_18btext.htm
http://www.maps.org/media/eisforevidence.html
Info from physicians criticizing your claims of science in the name of animal testing:
http://www.pcrm.org/issues/Animal_Experimentation_Issues/hpv_report.html
Leasing the Ivory Tower, The Corporate Takeover of Academia; Lawrence C. Soley. 1998, South End Press; Cambridge, MA; 7 Brookline Street, #1; Cambridge, MA 02139-4146
The idea of animal rights suggests that each animal individual is equal - i.e. killing two cows is twice the horror of killing one. How do you reconcile the fact that if you eat an organic ear of corn, or apple, there are dozens of insects and organisms inside these plants? Inevitably, in order to continue with life, you will have to accept some hierarchy of animals - that it is worse to kill mammals and some birds than to kill invertebrates. And by doing this, you are embracing the same logic that meat eaters use to justify eating animals. What about the fact that agriculture displaces animals from habitat and causes the extinction of lowland species. Think of all the species that are no longer able to live in the central valley. There is an alternative gatherer/hunter lifestyle that would be possible that would have a lower impact on animals. Each species is able to reproduce at a higher than replacement rate, and will reproduce until it is limited by something else. For species like eagles, this limiting factor will probably be a limited number of suitable nesting trees, but for other species such as fish, - fish will reproduce until they are limited by availability of food at the zooplankton level of the food chain. Thus, a great argument can be made that humans/grizzly bears etc. can take a certain number of fish each year which would be equivalent to the 'excess' number that would otherwise have mortality due to their own limited resources. The same applies to deer in some locations. So, a human could live on eating fish and not convert any habitat and could have less impact than an agricultural person who has to convert acres of land.
I still believe the animal testing industry is about greed and the testing is flawed. The science is bunk and equivalent to tobacco science. And for people to defend it is arrogant and self serving. Guess people aren't entitled to criticize it on this website. So for a group of people who supposedly believe in free speech, I find it either self serving or arrogant when your telling me not to respond until I know all the facts. I've never said I know all the facts, but I do know enough and can do research until I articulate the perfect argument to supposedly prove the worthiness of my criticism of animal testing to convert you. Well, I'm not trying to convert anyone or shove any religion down anyone's throat nor am I concerned what your values are since your so sure your right and that I am wrong. Just pointing out that people who do direct action don't have the sick and ailing's people's blood on their hands.
During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animals' throats or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death by stomach rupture or from the sheer bulk of the chemical dosage. Substances also are injected under the skin, into a vein, or into the peritoneal lining of the abdomen; they are also often applied to the eyes, rectum, or vagina, or forcibly inhaled through a gas mask.
The lethal dose test does not accurately measure human health hazards and is very crude and imprecise. Lethal dose test results can be affected by the age and sex of the animals tested, their housing and nutritional conditions, temperature, time of day and year, and the exact method used to administer the substance. Different species react differently to substances, and reactions between individuals of the same species can also vary greatly. For example, nicotine is lethal to humans at 0.9mg/kg, but lethal dose values of nicotine in dogs are a staggering 9.2mg/kg; in pigeons, 75mg/kg; and in rats, 53mg/kg.
In 1981, eminent scientists and toxicology experts met in Uppsala, Sweden, to discuss this "near useless" test. Since then, the lethal dose test has come under increasing fire for its cruel effects and inaccuracy. Computer modeling and cell and tissue culture techniques are among the available non-animal methods, as is the Ames test, which uses salmonella bacteria to determine toxicity.
Christine Whitman(EPA Administrator) is advocating the EDSP(Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program) even though it’s being called "blindly stupid" and "appalling technology" by scientists and will kill tens of millions of animals in painful poisoning tests. The EPA has reneged on a commitment to reduce the massive number of animals it kills in chemical toxicity tests. More animals—including dogs, rabbits, birds, fish, and rats—are injected with toxic substances, burned, and blinded in chemical tests by the EPA than by any other federal agency, yet the EPA refuses to spend virtually any of its $600 million annual research budget to develop reliable and humane non-animal tests. The unreliability of animal tests and their failure to protect the public from dangerous chemicals are rapidly turning into a scandal. After more than 10 years and the slaughter of millions of animals, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical. In addition, a viable in vitro strategy for testing chemicals for potential endocrine effects, which would protect both human health and the environment without killing animals in cruel laboratory poisoning studies, is possible, but Whitman has failed to consider it.
Several scientists also raised concerns about the huge differences between the human and nonhuman animal endocrine systems and the questionable relevance of any data on potential endocrine disruptors obtained through animal testing. A U.S. government scientist attending the meeting agreed that the testing program is unscientific and ill-conceived but stated nevertheless that "due to commitments by laboratories and government agencies and the availability of funding, the program will proceed—justified or not."
The shortcomings of animal-based approaches are also evident from the results of carcinogenicity studies. Arsenic, for example, was not classified as carcinogenic following animal studies but was later found to cause high levels of lung cancer in smelter workers exposed to arsenic in the air. Similarly, the causal link between benzene and human leukemia was established in 1928; however, 14 subsequent animal studies failed to demonstrate this effect.
And for the effects of the US military on animal torture...
Each year, at least 320,000 primates, dogs, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, cats, and other animals are hurt and killed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in experiments that rank among the most painful conducted in this country. Because these figures don’t include experiments that were contracted out to non-governmental laboratories or the many sheep, goats, and pigs often shot in wound experiments, the total number of animal victims is actually much higher. The cost to taxpayers for these military experiments is estimated to be in excess of $100 million annually.
Image courtesy of PETA
During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animals' throats or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death by stomach rupture or from the sheer bulk of the chemical dosage. Substances also are injected under the skin, into a vein, or into the peritoneal lining of the abdomen; they are also often applied to the eyes, rectum, or vagina, or forcibly inhaled through a gas mask.
The lethal dose test does not accurately measure human health hazards and is very crude and imprecise. Lethal dose test results can be affected by the age and sex of the animals tested, their housing and nutritional conditions, temperature, time of day and year, and the exact method used to administer the substance. Different species react differently to substances, and reactions between individuals of the same species can also vary greatly. For example, nicotine is lethal to humans at 0.9mg/kg, but lethal dose values of nicotine in dogs are a staggering 9.2mg/kg; in pigeons, 75mg/kg; and in rats, 53mg/kg.
In 1981, eminent scientists and toxicology experts met in Uppsala, Sweden, to discuss this "near useless" test. Since then, the lethal dose test has come under increasing fire for its cruel effects and inaccuracy. Computer modeling and cell and tissue culture techniques are among the available non-animal methods, as is the Ames test, which uses salmonella bacteria to determine toxicity.
Christine Whitman(EPA Administrator) is advocating the EDSP(Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program) even though it’s being called "blindly stupid" and "appalling technology" by scientists and will kill tens of millions of animals in painful poisoning tests. The EPA has reneged on a commitment to reduce the massive number of animals it kills in chemical toxicity tests. More animals—including dogs, rabbits, birds, fish, and rats—are injected with toxic substances, burned, and blinded in chemical tests by the EPA than by any other federal agency, yet the EPA refuses to spend virtually any of its $600 million annual research budget to develop reliable and humane non-animal tests. The unreliability of animal tests and their failure to protect the public from dangerous chemicals are rapidly turning into a scandal. After more than 10 years and the slaughter of millions of animals, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical. In addition, a viable in vitro strategy for testing chemicals for potential endocrine effects, which would protect both human health and the environment without killing animals in cruel laboratory poisoning studies, is possible, but Whitman has failed to consider it.
Several scientists also raised concerns about the huge differences between the human and nonhuman animal endocrine systems and the questionable relevance of any data on potential endocrine disruptors obtained through animal testing. A U.S. government scientist attending the meeting agreed that the testing program is unscientific and ill-conceived but stated nevertheless that "due to commitments by laboratories and government agencies and the availability of funding, the program will proceed—justified or not."
The shortcomings of animal-based approaches are also evident from the results of carcinogenicity studies. Arsenic, for example, was not classified as carcinogenic following animal studies but was later found to cause high levels of lung cancer in smelter workers exposed to arsenic in the air. Similarly, the causal link between benzene and human leukemia was established in 1928; however, 14 subsequent animal studies failed to demonstrate this effect.
And for the effects of the US military on animal torture...
Each year, at least 320,000 primates, dogs, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, cats, and other animals are hurt and killed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in experiments that rank among the most painful conducted in this country. Because these figures don’t include experiments that were contracted out to non-governmental laboratories or the many sheep, goats, and pigs often shot in wound experiments, the total number of animal victims is actually much higher. The cost to taxpayers for these military experiments is estimated to be in excess of $100 million annually.
Image courtesy of PETA
"When you sabotage medical research, human beings suffer and die as a result. It is no different from killing them outright, except that your way, they suffer more. You are cold blooded murderers and murderers’ accomplices."
What about how this research is carried out within private pharmaceutical companies? Doesn't that kill people? If you took the scientists out of the companies and stuck them all at enlarged public institutions such as NIH they would be engaged in the same activities as they were at private companies, conducting research, and they would be just as happy because unlike businesspeople, most science nerds are pretty happy with an upper middle class salary and a nonmicromanaging boss. But the difference would be that they would be sharing information from their experiments by publishing in peer reviewed journals. So, they wouldn't be replicating each other's work ( as they do now on a massive scale) and no one would have to solve a problem that had already been solved, but they could move on. Also, even though more taxes would have to be raised to pay them to be at public institutions, the tax money going into paying for drugs under medicare, and also the costs for drugs for people who don't receive medicare, would be dramatically reduced because pills could be produced at cost. And the system would work, despite the criticisms of communist systems because the scientists wouldn't have the incentive to slack off like workers with unpleasant jobs or business managers under socialized systems. Isn't this what is killing your loved people?
What about how this research is carried out within private pharmaceutical companies? Doesn't that kill people? If you took the scientists out of the companies and stuck them all at enlarged public institutions such as NIH they would be engaged in the same activities as they were at private companies, conducting research, and they would be just as happy because unlike businesspeople, most science nerds are pretty happy with an upper middle class salary and a nonmicromanaging boss. But the difference would be that they would be sharing information from their experiments by publishing in peer reviewed journals. So, they wouldn't be replicating each other's work ( as they do now on a massive scale) and no one would have to solve a problem that had already been solved, but they could move on. Also, even though more taxes would have to be raised to pay them to be at public institutions, the tax money going into paying for drugs under medicare, and also the costs for drugs for people who don't receive medicare, would be dramatically reduced because pills could be produced at cost. And the system would work, despite the criticisms of communist systems because the scientists wouldn't have the incentive to slack off like workers with unpleasant jobs or business managers under socialized systems. Isn't this what is killing your loved people?
Your piece of shit attitude leave much to your beliefs and I have had friends who's dog were stolen and ended up tortured for your self serving worthless scientific torture. Science which is flawed and wasteful. You failed to rbuke any of the science I threw up, all that you are doing is personalzing this thread and failing to address the wasteful, hurtful and useless scientific torture in the cause people are sufferring. So when you come at me nessie, bring all you got, cause I'll do all I got to defend myself by any means neccessary. Your so adamantly stuck on yourself and your beliefs, you haven't even begun to attempt to dispute that the science you so highly speak of is bull pucky.
Nessie, and if your belief is so worthy. What have you done in your life time to point out the senseless science which is being done. Has your egostistical bigotry proposed alternatives to using animals in the god mongering name of science? By the way, as illustrated previously, the rats you so detest, aren't benefitting the pain and suffering and in some case worsen the pain. So go on living in your dream world. Also, I didn't post this originally, am just a reader of the posting and believe now more than ever after refreshing my memory, that the science of using animals to further the tabocco science is still bullshit and sometime direct action gets the goods. Got you all up in a tiffy.
I do have to wonder if my beliefs are so off base, than why such the emotion and dribble from you. Seems as if we've hit a nerve here. Your grabbing phrases and words and doing as you please, your still not going to convince me that torturing animals is a moral and decent thing that HAS to be done. It's bullshit and you know it. The science industry is too damn lazy to find alternatives and too happy making mucho dinero.
Oh by the way, as for animal torturers, most aren't so human friendly either.
History is replete with notorious examples: Patrick Sherrill, who killed 14 coworkers at a post office and then shot himself, had a history of stealing local pets and allowing his own dog to attack and mutilate them.(1) Earl Kenneth Shriner, who raped, stabbed, and mutilated a 7-year-old boy, had been widely known in his neighborhood as the man who put firecrackers in dogs’ rectums and strung up cats.(2) Brenda Spencer, who opened fire at a San Diego school, killing two children and injuring nine others, had repeatedly abused cats and dogs, often by setting their tails on fire.(3) Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" who killed 13 women, trapped dogs and cats in orange crates and shot arrows through the boxes in his youth.(4) Carroll Edward Cole, executed for five of the 35 murders of which he was accused, said his first act of violence as a child was to strangle a puppy.(5) In 1987, three Missouri high school students were charged with the beating death of a classmate. They had histories of repeated acts of animal mutilation starting several years earlier. One confessed that he had killed so many cats he’d lost count. (6) Two brothers who murdered their parents had previously told classmates that they had decapitated a cat.(7) Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had impaled dogs’ heads, frogs, and cats on sticks.(8) Nessie, the rat killer shoves his head up his butt so far, he loses site of reality.(9)
1. International Association of Chiefs of Police, The Training Key, No. 392, 1989.
2. The Animals’ Voice, Fall 1990.
3. The Humane Society News, Summer 1986.
4. International Association of Chiefs of Police.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Lorraine Adams, "Too Close for Comfort," The Washington Post, 4 Apr. 1995.
8. Goleman
9. What
I do have to wonder if my beliefs are so off base, than why such the emotion and dribble from you. Seems as if we've hit a nerve here. Your grabbing phrases and words and doing as you please, your still not going to convince me that torturing animals is a moral and decent thing that HAS to be done. It's bullshit and you know it. The science industry is too damn lazy to find alternatives and too happy making mucho dinero.
Oh by the way, as for animal torturers, most aren't so human friendly either.
History is replete with notorious examples: Patrick Sherrill, who killed 14 coworkers at a post office and then shot himself, had a history of stealing local pets and allowing his own dog to attack and mutilate them.(1) Earl Kenneth Shriner, who raped, stabbed, and mutilated a 7-year-old boy, had been widely known in his neighborhood as the man who put firecrackers in dogs’ rectums and strung up cats.(2) Brenda Spencer, who opened fire at a San Diego school, killing two children and injuring nine others, had repeatedly abused cats and dogs, often by setting their tails on fire.(3) Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" who killed 13 women, trapped dogs and cats in orange crates and shot arrows through the boxes in his youth.(4) Carroll Edward Cole, executed for five of the 35 murders of which he was accused, said his first act of violence as a child was to strangle a puppy.(5) In 1987, three Missouri high school students were charged with the beating death of a classmate. They had histories of repeated acts of animal mutilation starting several years earlier. One confessed that he had killed so many cats he’d lost count. (6) Two brothers who murdered their parents had previously told classmates that they had decapitated a cat.(7) Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer had impaled dogs’ heads, frogs, and cats on sticks.(8) Nessie, the rat killer shoves his head up his butt so far, he loses site of reality.(9)
1. International Association of Chiefs of Police, The Training Key, No. 392, 1989.
2. The Animals’ Voice, Fall 1990.
3. The Humane Society News, Summer 1986.
4. International Association of Chiefs of Police.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Lorraine Adams, "Too Close for Comfort," The Washington Post, 4 Apr. 1995.
8. Goleman
9. What
"torturing human beings to death because they don’t practice the sick, twisted, evil and anti-human tenets of your primitive, superstitious belief system."...nessie
Last word on this, Nessie, thanks for exposing me your morals and ethics. I'll keep it in mind as I read the most common poster to the site, the one who always has to get in a word. Maybe you should run for president so you can shove your religious beliefs down my throat, god wouldn't that be great. A self righteous Dictator nutbag running the world. I'll repeat, I'm not opposed to what has been learned in science, but as the other responder mentioned, the torturing is duplicative and worthless. The issue of animal testing is a moral one, not a belief based issue as you'd like to pigeon hole me, when your talking the real issues surrounding medical research. And if i remember properly, so of the actions innitially mentioned in this post, had nothing to do with medical research that has you so fear based and paranoid that if successful, your going to die a painful death. So what if you die a painful death, as you've illustrated, you don't give a shit about anything but yourself. Who made you god? Oh that's right, it's evolution. blah blah blah. Selfish bastard, nessie. Please, if your so into torturing animals nessie, seek out a counselor.
Last word on this, Nessie, thanks for exposing me your morals and ethics. I'll keep it in mind as I read the most common poster to the site, the one who always has to get in a word. Maybe you should run for president so you can shove your religious beliefs down my throat, god wouldn't that be great. A self righteous Dictator nutbag running the world. I'll repeat, I'm not opposed to what has been learned in science, but as the other responder mentioned, the torturing is duplicative and worthless. The issue of animal testing is a moral one, not a belief based issue as you'd like to pigeon hole me, when your talking the real issues surrounding medical research. And if i remember properly, so of the actions innitially mentioned in this post, had nothing to do with medical research that has you so fear based and paranoid that if successful, your going to die a painful death. So what if you die a painful death, as you've illustrated, you don't give a shit about anything but yourself. Who made you god? Oh that's right, it's evolution. blah blah blah. Selfish bastard, nessie. Please, if your so into torturing animals nessie, seek out a counselor.
what the fuck are you talking about? lead me through how stopping duplicative and immoral bogus science is trying to kill someone you love? your a full blow whacko up there in the likes of dahmer.
Did you even read the material posted? Seems to me as if your personally attacking me and failing to even see what is being put up. Do you have morals?
The unreliability of animal tests and their failure to protect the public from dangerous chemicals are rapidly turning into a scandal. After more than 10 years and the slaughter of millions of animals, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical.
Ya know what, Dow chemical, Monsanto and the other capatilistic companies who want to push the industrial oil based agriculture so you can stuff your face and poison me, can kiss my ass. Justiying it with drugs or medicines is also bull pucky. Further, your choosing to use innocent animals in bogus science experiments to push your beliefs down my throat is nothing more than an attempt to slowly kill me. Stop poisoning me with your toxins. So, yes if I choose to defend myself and say, umm excuse me, but the science is flawed and the real problem isn't being addressed? Why are these global companies poisoning me and my relatives? Why is it also the same companies who are torturing animals? Somehow that makes me anti this or anti that and primitive this or that, that is lunancy.
All depends on what moral issues your dealing with.
The unreliability of animal tests and their failure to protect the public from dangerous chemicals are rapidly turning into a scandal. After more than 10 years and the slaughter of millions of animals, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical.
Ya know what, Dow chemical, Monsanto and the other capatilistic companies who want to push the industrial oil based agriculture so you can stuff your face and poison me, can kiss my ass. Justiying it with drugs or medicines is also bull pucky. Further, your choosing to use innocent animals in bogus science experiments to push your beliefs down my throat is nothing more than an attempt to slowly kill me. Stop poisoning me with your toxins. So, yes if I choose to defend myself and say, umm excuse me, but the science is flawed and the real problem isn't being addressed? Why are these global companies poisoning me and my relatives? Why is it also the same companies who are torturing animals? Somehow that makes me anti this or anti that and primitive this or that, that is lunancy.
All depends on what moral issues your dealing with.
do your science, just leave the animals out of it. that is if they really are scientist.
But since those wide-eyed activists have put animals' rights somewhere on the election agenda, you may be interested to know that there is a totally hard-headed and rational case to be made for saying that animal experimentation has been a scientific and medical disaster. That far from saving lives, it has caused injury and death to thousands and that time and again it has led both re searchers and legislators into a blind alley.
But since those wide-eyed activists have put animals' rights somewhere on the election agenda, you may be interested to know that there is a totally hard-headed and rational case to be made for saying that animal experimentation has been a scientific and medical disaster. That far from saving lives, it has caused injury and death to thousands and that time and again it has led both re searchers and legislators into a blind alley.
Hey nessie,
Take a look, I guess it's like the darwin awards, well sorta...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73967,00.html
you sure those scientists are gonna save you or relatives from the pain?
PS....i've watched relatives die from disease and illness up close, and admit that it sucks. I am thankful for modern day medicine. I am however, opposed to torture and bogus science.
torture on i guess.....
Take a look, I guess it's like the darwin awards, well sorta...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73967,00.html
you sure those scientists are gonna save you or relatives from the pain?
PS....i've watched relatives die from disease and illness up close, and admit that it sucks. I am thankful for modern day medicine. I am however, opposed to torture and bogus science.
torture on i guess.....
here's but a few...but to choose to ignore the brutality we inflict daily on our fellow beings is unacceptable.
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Animal experimentation has misled researchers for centuries, confounding our understanding of the human body and the diseases that plague it.
Not only does it divert limited resources away from valid science, but by delaying innovation, therapies and cures, it prolongs suffering and increases mortality. Fallacious data regarding medications, garnered through animal experimentation, leads to injury and death.
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DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES
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LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
1.Smoking was thought non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Many continued to smoke and to die from cancer.[2]
2.Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]
3.Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.[3][4][5]
4.Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6] This was the accepted view until it was produced in lab animals.[7][8][9]
5.Many continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not reproduce the cancer in lab animals.
6.Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of physiological differences between animals they were designed on and humans.
7.Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles with a false sense of security.
8.Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to animal models of stroke.
9.Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure. This withheld their development.[10][11][12] Even animal experimenters admitted the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.
10.Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients. The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside, whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface. Surgery is now performed only on the surface.
11.Combined heart lung transplants were also “perfected” on animals, but the first 3 patients all died within 23 days.[13] Of 28 patients operated on between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the experimental dogs did not get. Of those 10, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.[14]
12.Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was watershed in the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.[15]
13.Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.
14.Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.
15.Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.
16.More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16] These side effects included complications like lethal dysrhythmias, heart attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and stroke, among others.
17.Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all tolerated the medication well. In humans, however it caused deaths.
18.Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident. It caused severe neurological problems in humans.
19.Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure, anemia, and death in humans. Animal testing had given it a clean, side effect-free bill of health.
20.Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals and was released without trepidation. Humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.
21.Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15 people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants.[17] It worked well in woodchucks.[18][19]
22.Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits. It was pulled off the shelves all over the world in 1982 after it was found to cause blindness and paralysis in humans.
23.Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused 23 deaths despite the fact that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. It caused blindness and deaths in humans. Afterwards, scientists were unable to reproduce these results in animals.[20]
24.Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems.
25.Zomax, another arthritis drug, killed 14 people and caused many more to suffer.
26.The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was worked out in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to reproduce these results in animals.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
27.Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the abdomen.[27] Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.[28]
28.Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say about the animal tests:[29][30] “...excellent safety profile. No ...cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any species.”
29.Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.[31][32]
30.Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals. It was withdrawn in 1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.[33][34]
31.Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure that had not been predicted by animal studies. Even when they knew they were looking for a particular type of liver failure, they could not induce it in animals.[35]
32.Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.[36][37]
33.Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.[38][39]
34.Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After scientists knew what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, without reproducing this effect. [40][41]
35.Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous colitis. It was tested in rats and dogs every day for one year. They tolerate doses 10 times greater than humans.[42][43][44]
36.Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during development or after.[45][46]
37.Pharmacia & Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex) tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.
38.Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or needed a liver transplant.
39.Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson’s disease, was found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in animals, where it is used to treat senile dementia and endocrine disorders.
40.The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to heart valve abnormalities and taken off the market although animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities."[47]
41.The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The company admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo a liver transplant as a result.[48]
42.The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders. However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it caused high blood pressure in animals. Human evidence overrode. As a result, digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more could it have survived had digitalis been released sooner.[49][50][51][52]
43.FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost shelved before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in animals.[53][54] Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin might prove more useful.[55] In fact, just the opposite proved true in humans.[56]
44.Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a severe bacterial infection of the blood.[57][58] Unfortunately, humans reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic shock.[59]
45.Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in his rabbits, Alexander Fleming used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try. Luckily, Fleming’s initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters, it kills them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: “How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized.”
46.Fluoride was withheld as a cavity preventative initially because it caused cancer in rats.[60][61][62]
47.The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals and released. Tens of thousands suffered and died as a result.
48.Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates. Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and their lives were shortened.
49.Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.
50.Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to exposure to diseases that though harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis B) kill humans.
Time, money, and resources devoted to these experiments could have gone to human-based research. Clinical studies, in vitro research, autopsies, post-marketing drug surveillance, computer modeling, epidemiology, and genetic research pose no hazard to humans and provide accurate results.
Importantly, animal experiments have exhausted resources that could have been dedicated to educating the public about health hazards and health maintenance, therein diminishing the incidence of diseases that require treatment.
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Animal experimentation has misled researchers for centuries, confounding our understanding of the human body and the diseases that plague it.
Not only does it divert limited resources away from valid science, but by delaying innovation, therapies and cures, it prolongs suffering and increases mortality. Fallacious data regarding medications, garnered through animal experimentation, leads to injury and death.
50
DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES
OF
LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
1.Smoking was thought non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Many continued to smoke and to die from cancer.[2]
2.Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]
3.Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.[3][4][5]
4.Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6] This was the accepted view until it was produced in lab animals.[7][8][9]
5.Many continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not reproduce the cancer in lab animals.
6.Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of physiological differences between animals they were designed on and humans.
7.Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles with a false sense of security.
8.Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to animal models of stroke.
9.Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure. This withheld their development.[10][11][12] Even animal experimenters admitted the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.
10.Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients. The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside, whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface. Surgery is now performed only on the surface.
11.Combined heart lung transplants were also “perfected” on animals, but the first 3 patients all died within 23 days.[13] Of 28 patients operated on between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the experimental dogs did not get. Of those 10, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.[14]
12.Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was watershed in the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.[15]
13.Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.
14.Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.
15.Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.
16.More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16] These side effects included complications like lethal dysrhythmias, heart attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and stroke, among others.
17.Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all tolerated the medication well. In humans, however it caused deaths.
18.Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident. It caused severe neurological problems in humans.
19.Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure, anemia, and death in humans. Animal testing had given it a clean, side effect-free bill of health.
20.Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals and was released without trepidation. Humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.
21.Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15 people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants.[17] It worked well in woodchucks.[18][19]
22.Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits. It was pulled off the shelves all over the world in 1982 after it was found to cause blindness and paralysis in humans.
23.Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused 23 deaths despite the fact that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. It caused blindness and deaths in humans. Afterwards, scientists were unable to reproduce these results in animals.[20]
24.Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems.
25.Zomax, another arthritis drug, killed 14 people and caused many more to suffer.
26.The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was worked out in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to reproduce these results in animals.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
27.Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the abdomen.[27] Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.[28]
28.Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say about the animal tests:[29][30] “...excellent safety profile. No ...cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any species.”
29.Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.[31][32]
30.Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals. It was withdrawn in 1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.[33][34]
31.Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure that had not been predicted by animal studies. Even when they knew they were looking for a particular type of liver failure, they could not induce it in animals.[35]
32.Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.[36][37]
33.Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.[38][39]
34.Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After scientists knew what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, without reproducing this effect. [40][41]
35.Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous colitis. It was tested in rats and dogs every day for one year. They tolerate doses 10 times greater than humans.[42][43][44]
36.Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during development or after.[45][46]
37.Pharmacia & Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex) tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.
38.Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or needed a liver transplant.
39.Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson’s disease, was found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in animals, where it is used to treat senile dementia and endocrine disorders.
40.The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to heart valve abnormalities and taken off the market although animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities."[47]
41.The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The company admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo a liver transplant as a result.[48]
42.The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders. However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it caused high blood pressure in animals. Human evidence overrode. As a result, digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more could it have survived had digitalis been released sooner.[49][50][51][52]
43.FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost shelved before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in animals.[53][54] Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin might prove more useful.[55] In fact, just the opposite proved true in humans.[56]
44.Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a severe bacterial infection of the blood.[57][58] Unfortunately, humans reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic shock.[59]
45.Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in his rabbits, Alexander Fleming used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try. Luckily, Fleming’s initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters, it kills them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: “How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized.”
46.Fluoride was withheld as a cavity preventative initially because it caused cancer in rats.[60][61][62]
47.The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals and released. Tens of thousands suffered and died as a result.
48.Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates. Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and their lives were shortened.
49.Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.
50.Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to exposure to diseases that though harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis B) kill humans.
Time, money, and resources devoted to these experiments could have gone to human-based research. Clinical studies, in vitro research, autopsies, post-marketing drug surveillance, computer modeling, epidemiology, and genetic research pose no hazard to humans and provide accurate results.
Importantly, animal experiments have exhausted resources that could have been dedicated to educating the public about health hazards and health maintenance, therein diminishing the incidence of diseases that require treatment.
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION DOES NOT MAKE SENSE
HUMAN-BASED SCIENCE PREVENTS DISEASE AND CREATES VALID THERAPIES
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2.Lancet, June 25, 1977 p1348-9
3.The Guardian, July 20, 1991
4.Occupational Lung Disorders, Butterworth 1982
5.Toxicology & Industrial Health, 1990, vol.6, p293-307
6. Nat Cancer Inst 1969, vol.42, 1045-52
7.Br J Cancer, 1947, vol.1, p 192-251
8.Advances in Modern Toxicology, vol.2, Wiley, 1977
9.J Nat Cancer Inst, 1962, vol.5, p 459
10.Fitzgerald, D. The development of new cardiovascular drugs in Recent Developments in Cardiovascular Drugs eds. Coltart and Jewitt, Churchill Livingstone 1981
11.Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 1980 Part 2, S9-S24
12.Pharmacy International Feb. 1986; p33-37
13.Lancet, i, p 130-2, 1983
14.Lancet, 1, no. 8480 p 517-9, March 8, 1996
15.Annals of Internal Medicine 1984, vol.101, 667-682
16.GAO/PEMD-90-15 FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-1985
17.NEJM 333;1099-1105, 1995
18.J NIH Res, 1993, 5, 33-35
19.Nature, 1993, July 22, p 275
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22.Br J of Pharm 1969Vol. 36; p35-45
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24.Am Rev Resp Diseases, 1972, vol.105, p883-890
25.Lancet, 1979, Oct.27, p 896
26.Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 1965, vol. 7; p1-8
27.Animal Toxicity Studies: Their Relevance for Man, Quay Pub. 1990
28.Br Med J, 1974, May 18, p 365-366
29.Drug Withdrawl from Sale PJB Publications, 1988
30.Pharmacology, 1983, vol.27(suppl 1), 87-94 and FDA Drug Review: Postapproval Risks 1976-1985 (US GAO April 1990
31.Gut, 1987, vol.28, 515-518
32.Lancet, Jan 10, 1987, 113-114
33.Toxicolo Letters, 1991, vol.55, p 287-93
34.Drug Withdrawl from Sale, PJB1988
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36.Drugs, 1982, vol.24, p 360-400
37.Animal Toxicity Studies Quay, 1990
38.Lancet, 1984, July 28, p 219-220
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43.Br Nat Form, no.26, 1993
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45.The Benzodiazepines MTP Press1978
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56.Hepatology,1991, vol.13, 1259-1260
57.Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin, 1990, vol.28, p 74-75
58.Anesthesiology: Proceedings of the VI World Congress of Anesthesiology, Mexico City 1977
59.NEJM, 1987, Sep. 10, p 653-658
60.The Causes of Cancer, 1981, Oxford Press
61.J NIH Res, 1991, vol.3, p46
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Someone goes out in a field and sprays insecticide, and millions of insects drop dead - a holocaust. But there is no focus given to these deaths or the deaths of the invertebrates that are slaughtered during the construction of a wheat sandwich. Thus, observing this hierarchy of concern for different types of animals, the animal rights movement should be called the mammal rights movement
Yo nessie kindergarden boy, because I am critical of the bogus science, it supposedly makes me anti human is a lie and an outright wrong assumption on your part. I will not turn this into a black or white issue phrased within the context of your arrgument to this thread. Nothing about this world is black or white. I will say you've done a great job at posing that it just that, but I can criticize the junk science and still benefit from the medical advances from past science. I am entitled to criticizing your logic. But then again, you must not feel like we are entitled to debate these things and would prefer to shut down free speech.
And as for your evolutionary theory, maybe your loved ones who are dying are just that, weak fodder meant to die because of natural selection.
And as for your evolutionary theory, maybe your loved ones who are dying are just that, weak fodder meant to die because of natural selection.
are the ALF and the ELF planning to take advantage of the situation by conducting actions in another part of the city?
Do Vegetarians Taste Like Chicken?
by Ron Marr
Being a Southern boy, I like chicken. I like it baked or broiled or broasted or barbecued. It's hard to beat a mess of fowl that's been soaked in buttermilk, rolled in corn meal, and dunked in the deep fryer. I've never been quite certain whether chicken prepared in this manner really tastes like chicken - you could probably batter-fry the backseat of a Chevy and receive a similar gustatory sensation - but that's beside the point.
Chicken tastes like chicken, which tastes like fish, which tastes like gator, which tastes like bull-frog, which tastes like snake, which tastes like rabbit, which tastes like the aforementioned rear cushion of a 68' Impala. The Fry Daddy is an equal opportunity appliance. If you really want to mess people up when eating chicken, take a big bite and loudly exclaim 'ummm..ummm. Tastes like bull-frog.'
I'm partial to the skin of the chicken, which is where the health giving nutrients inherent to a heavy batter are located. I'm particularly partial to the skin if it's of the 'Extra Crispy' variety. The invention of 'Extra Crispy' is the reason that I place the late Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, on the same pedestal with such visionaries and humanitarians as Henry Ford, Mother Teresa, and Rush Limbaugh.
Some folks went weepy when Princess Diana slammed into a bridge. Others rent their clothes when John John Kennedy splashed into the Atlantic. Millions mourned because Elvis got all drugged-up and fell off the toilet. Me...I shed a tear when Colonel Sanders went to that big ol' red and white revolving bucket in the sky.
That's why I'm offended, on a spiritual level, that the fine culinary institution which bears the Colonel's name and visage is under attack by the heinous miscreants known as People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA is launching a boycott against KFC's parent company [Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky., and no, I didn't make up that name] with allegations of animal-rights abuses. PETA is whining that KFC chickens don't have nice living quarters [no maids...no satellite dish] and are sent to their reward in a barbarous manner. Since PETA people consider the mere consumption of a critter an animal-rights abuse, I put little faith in their claims.
Instead, I will side with Yum Brands, as they have a stellar track record in regard to gastronomic principle. Along with KFC, the company owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver. These are all fine firms, but I'm particularly fond of the latter, assuming of course that they still give out flimsy paper pirate hats and eye patches. One cannot help but enjoy a blood-thirsty buccaneer motif while eating deep-sea denizens prepared in boiling oil. Personally, I revel in donning such apparel and yelling 'Arrrrrgh...Ahoy Matey' at highly inappropriate times. This may explain why I don't have a lot of second dates.
PETA folks though...they're a soy and tofu, 'bless the beasts and children' kind of clan with zero regard for pirate costumes or the blessed memory of kindly old Southern Colonels. They don't like to chow down on anything with a face, and right there is a sign of severe mental dysfunction. They pretend to be concerned about the 'rights' of all living things, which is pretty funny since it was recently reported that the group publicly gives money to domestic terrorist organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front.
I really respect an outfit which places the entitlements of moles, rats, possums, crabs, tapeworms and barnyard birds above those of humans who could well be burned alive when the E.L.F crowd torches their mountain-side condo. PETA is largely supported by Hollywood celebrities and Democratic sympathizers. Since these sub-cultures are usually of a pacifist mindset, it only makes sense that they would advocate giving Foghorn Leghorn the right to vote, buy beer, and receive government subsidized tattoo removal. Their commonalties with chickens are readily apparent, once again proving the old adage that 'it takes one to know one.' Because of this insidious boycott against the legacy of the Colonel, I plan on eating at KFC as often as possible. They offer a dandy buffet for about seven bucks. It features not only all the batter-fried chicken skin you can swallow, but also their famous mashed taters, gravy, and a host of other Epicurean delights. PETA's rationale that KFC's "crude and ineffective electric stunning and throat-slitting of chickens" is inhumane will only lead me to order more Extra Crispy. Frankly, that electric stunning bit strikes me as an awful lot of unnecessary work. When I was a kid we would just slap Henny Penny on a stump and whack her head off with a hatchet. It's fairly interesting work, as the decapitated fowl nearly always makes a mad, spurting, flapping dash of 30 or 40 feet before succumbing to the noggin-ectomy procedure.
Nature is a teacher, and the lesson learned from acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang-fool idiot making a spectacle of yourself. I'm certain the PETA people can relate.
Ron Marr is the editor and publisher of Trout Wrapper Magazine, as well as a syndicated columnist whose work can be found in newspapers across Montana and the Dakotas. Ron Marr may be reached for comment at marr1359 [at] yahoo.com.
by Ron Marr
Being a Southern boy, I like chicken. I like it baked or broiled or broasted or barbecued. It's hard to beat a mess of fowl that's been soaked in buttermilk, rolled in corn meal, and dunked in the deep fryer. I've never been quite certain whether chicken prepared in this manner really tastes like chicken - you could probably batter-fry the backseat of a Chevy and receive a similar gustatory sensation - but that's beside the point.
Chicken tastes like chicken, which tastes like fish, which tastes like gator, which tastes like bull-frog, which tastes like snake, which tastes like rabbit, which tastes like the aforementioned rear cushion of a 68' Impala. The Fry Daddy is an equal opportunity appliance. If you really want to mess people up when eating chicken, take a big bite and loudly exclaim 'ummm..ummm. Tastes like bull-frog.'
I'm partial to the skin of the chicken, which is where the health giving nutrients inherent to a heavy batter are located. I'm particularly partial to the skin if it's of the 'Extra Crispy' variety. The invention of 'Extra Crispy' is the reason that I place the late Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, on the same pedestal with such visionaries and humanitarians as Henry Ford, Mother Teresa, and Rush Limbaugh.
Some folks went weepy when Princess Diana slammed into a bridge. Others rent their clothes when John John Kennedy splashed into the Atlantic. Millions mourned because Elvis got all drugged-up and fell off the toilet. Me...I shed a tear when Colonel Sanders went to that big ol' red and white revolving bucket in the sky.
That's why I'm offended, on a spiritual level, that the fine culinary institution which bears the Colonel's name and visage is under attack by the heinous miscreants known as People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA is launching a boycott against KFC's parent company [Yum Brands of Louisville, Ky., and no, I didn't make up that name] with allegations of animal-rights abuses. PETA is whining that KFC chickens don't have nice living quarters [no maids...no satellite dish] and are sent to their reward in a barbarous manner. Since PETA people consider the mere consumption of a critter an animal-rights abuse, I put little faith in their claims.
Instead, I will side with Yum Brands, as they have a stellar track record in regard to gastronomic principle. Along with KFC, the company owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver. These are all fine firms, but I'm particularly fond of the latter, assuming of course that they still give out flimsy paper pirate hats and eye patches. One cannot help but enjoy a blood-thirsty buccaneer motif while eating deep-sea denizens prepared in boiling oil. Personally, I revel in donning such apparel and yelling 'Arrrrrgh...Ahoy Matey' at highly inappropriate times. This may explain why I don't have a lot of second dates.
PETA folks though...they're a soy and tofu, 'bless the beasts and children' kind of clan with zero regard for pirate costumes or the blessed memory of kindly old Southern Colonels. They don't like to chow down on anything with a face, and right there is a sign of severe mental dysfunction. They pretend to be concerned about the 'rights' of all living things, which is pretty funny since it was recently reported that the group publicly gives money to domestic terrorist organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front.
I really respect an outfit which places the entitlements of moles, rats, possums, crabs, tapeworms and barnyard birds above those of humans who could well be burned alive when the E.L.F crowd torches their mountain-side condo. PETA is largely supported by Hollywood celebrities and Democratic sympathizers. Since these sub-cultures are usually of a pacifist mindset, it only makes sense that they would advocate giving Foghorn Leghorn the right to vote, buy beer, and receive government subsidized tattoo removal. Their commonalties with chickens are readily apparent, once again proving the old adage that 'it takes one to know one.' Because of this insidious boycott against the legacy of the Colonel, I plan on eating at KFC as often as possible. They offer a dandy buffet for about seven bucks. It features not only all the batter-fried chicken skin you can swallow, but also their famous mashed taters, gravy, and a host of other Epicurean delights. PETA's rationale that KFC's "crude and ineffective electric stunning and throat-slitting of chickens" is inhumane will only lead me to order more Extra Crispy. Frankly, that electric stunning bit strikes me as an awful lot of unnecessary work. When I was a kid we would just slap Henny Penny on a stump and whack her head off with a hatchet. It's fairly interesting work, as the decapitated fowl nearly always makes a mad, spurting, flapping dash of 30 or 40 feet before succumbing to the noggin-ectomy procedure.
Nature is a teacher, and the lesson learned from acephalous poultry is that you really don't need a brain to run around like a dang-fool idiot making a spectacle of yourself. I'm certain the PETA people can relate.
Ron Marr is the editor and publisher of Trout Wrapper Magazine, as well as a syndicated columnist whose work can be found in newspapers across Montana and the Dakotas. Ron Marr may be reached for comment at marr1359 [at] yahoo.com.
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