Sunday, January 6th 2008
Animal Rights, not Human Rights
Update: The East Bay Express reports some harassment at researchers’ homes.
There is a story in the San Jose Mercury News about some action against animal researchers.
Since August, activists have visited the homes and offices of several Berkeley researchers. An October protest at the El Cerrito home of toxicology professor Leonard Bjeldanes led to several arrests, although prosecutors declined to file charges.
Several researchers declined to speak about the harassment, which has become a problem across the 10-campus University of California system. Campus chancellors released a joint statement in December decrying the protests, saying the university supports free speech but that some actions “have crossed the line.”
“They’re not above putting bombs under people’s cars,” said UC Berkeley spokesman Bob Sanders, referring to an incident at the home of a University of California, Los Angeles professor. “They’re domestic terrorists.”
The chancellors’ statement is available on the UC website. The article reported yesterday was to be “a day of action” by the animal activists, but the papers this morning did not record any incidents.
I have not seen much action against animal research on campus. The most I remember is a random non-student looking person outside VLSB last spring who handed me a big packet about the evils of dissection in biology classes.
Last time I checked, people engaged in civil discourse about issues instead of threats.
update the rest of the website please
Comment by anonymous — 1/8/2008 @ 9:49 pm
Very interesting. Just goes to show how desperate those radical animal rights’ activists really are. Just a reminder for them: Animals Are Not Humans! They really are terrorists, inciting fear in the infidels (scientists who do testing on animals to make sure products are suitable for humans and other animals), performing car bombings, making threats, etc.
Lol, my sister works for Greenpeace now, which in my opinion is a quasi-ecoterrorist group. They do accost whalers on the ocean, and once got in a severe confrontation with a whaling boat. Lol, anthropocentrism all the way! The animals are here for us to use them, eat them, etc. There is a reason why most vegans can’t live with their unnatural dieting without health complications: we are intended to eat meat!
Comment by Josh — 1/9/2008 @ 1:21 am