Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Animal rights protests also endanger a field that is more important to human life than coats--animal experimentation. ALF, for example, recently claimed responsibility for sending Stanford University bomb threats because researchers there had successfully infected mice with the AIDS virus, and were testing possible treatments on them...
...fair, one cannot judge a movement by its extremists. Some members of animal rights groups denounce such violent tactics. And groups, such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, justifiably seek an end to excessive animal experimentation and cruelty, without equating human and animal life...
PETA considers itself a "non-violent" group. But Burnett clarified that, "If there is no [human] life involved, and if there is just property damage, we can't take a position against it... We don't consider liberating an animal from a lab violent...
PETA opposes all animal experimentation and suggests the use of human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...
...group's leader even explicitly equates animal life with human life. Alex Pacheco, chairman of PETA, was recently quoted as saying, "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child, because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence upon others...