Animal Research Helps Animals too

John Richard Schrock
Last month, the FBI released a wanted poster on America’s first domestic terrorist. Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights extremist, is being sought for alleged arson attacks on biotechnology companies in California. The FBI is offering a bounty of up to $250,000 for information leading to his arrest. The warrant highlights the issue of whether animals should be used in experiments intended to help humans.
Kansas is not California, a statement most Kansans are proud to assert. Membership in extreme animal rights organisations in Kansas is very low and most Kansans are at most only two or three relatives away from someone who works in an animal industry, from ranchers to meat processing to rodeo to pharmaceutical testing near Kansas City.
Full report on the University World News site
Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009