Thursday, May 19, 2005

 

Animal Welfare - Something to Ponder About

Yesterday was a bad start to the day when I received the following link from a friend. It was definitely disturbing and a cause for concern. Simply inexplicable and inhumane is how I would put it. Probably the best way to put an end to this is to spread awareness and I would be really glad if this space takes a step forward in this direction. The news item is below. More on this is available at www.peta.org

"Today, at a news conference in Washington, D.C., PETA revealed the findings of its 11-month undercover investigation into Covance, the international drug-testing giant (formerly known as Hazelton).
PETA’s investigator worked as a technician inside the Vienna, Virginia, Covance laboratory, where she documented workers who were striking, choking, taunting, and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. She documented monkeys with broken arms left without proper veterinary treatment and animals in desperate need of euthanasia, who were kept alive and in agony just to please drug companies. Other primates, used in lethal irradiation experiments, developed open wounds on their stomachs.
When PETA called the U.S. Department of Agriculture for help during our investigation, the agency took five days to respond. Please help these suffering primates, who live in constant fear of the next horrible thing that will happen to them."

Comments:
Here is the flip side of animal welfare; when animal welfare goes horribly wrong: a guy riding a bike sees a stray pooch dart across the street. In an attempt to avoid hitting the dog, he swerves and skids on to the tarmac. Thankfully he misses any oncoming traffic, but he wounded and begging for water. The terrified dog falls into the gutter lining the road. In the midst of this melee, an animal welfare activist comes to the scene with a bucket full of water and washes the *poor* dog.
 
Its a nice point. But I guess the animal welfare activists would have obviously gone for the dog, but then the many "human welfare activists" would have helped the guy in distress :-)
 
Thin is the line between activists and fanatics.
 
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