Animal rights bastards

There was a little "animal rights" protest in Oxford today. I'm going to have a short rant about animal rights people.

I don't believe in deliberate cruelty of animals. I think that is reprehensible.

However, I think the "animal rights" anti-vivisection protest movement is picking on a soft target.

The worst disregard of animal rights is in the intensive factory farming trade. Battery hens, broiler chickens and pigs get horrendous conditions, poor space, cruelty beyond belief.

Are there any protests against it? Like hell. This is because people don't eat cute fluffy pets. We don't really care what happens to pigs or chickens.

We have good alternatives to this disgrace. We could eat more naturally produced outdoor reared, organic meat. We could even eat a healthy vegetarian diet. So why don't the animal rights people sort this problem out?

Instead, they attack animal testing. Testing on animals is banned on cosmetics in the UK, so let's leave that out of the argument.

Animals have potential medicines tested on them. It's a legal requirement.

There is no other way of testing toxicity of these substances, unless people want to volunteer to play russian roulette with new drugs. Despite what their propaganda says, computer testing, and tissue samples do not accurately reflect how drugs behave in the body.

Animal testing is a necessary tool. If it wasn't, the drug companies would much prefer to test on computers or tissue samples, as it would be much cheaper. It's not going to work, and never is going to work.

Please, think carefully before you believe these people. If you want to make a difference to animal cruelty, start with meat which is an unnecessary luxury, not with medicines that could save millions of lives.

I'm not involved in the vivisection movement. I'm just a knowledgeable scientist who supports it as a sad but necessary part of saving human lives.

AcidCat

PS Happy Chinese new year to you all.