LETTER: Yale's monkey friends
LETTER: Yale's monkey friends
Monday, October 24, 2011
It is appalling that the Yale Daily News would refer to vervet monkeys as “Yale’s newest collaborators;” it is morally on par with blaming a woman for being raped or describing her as a “collaborator” in the assault.
Animals who have been taken from their homeland, torn from their familes, forced to live in captivity and slated for death cannot honestly be described as “collaborators.” They are victims, and they deserve our support.
Ian Smith
Oct. 20
Comments
theantiyale 7 months ago
I agree.
But why does animal experimentation evoke more sympathy and outrage than worldwide child slavery?
penny_lane 7 months ago
Medical advancements developed through animal research have increased the human lifespan an average of 23 years.
River_Tam 7 months ago
penny_lane and I don't always agree, but when we do, it's over indisputable facts.
theantiyale 7 months ago
And the Crusades increased the lifespan of Christians.
River_Tam 7 months ago
Except that Muslims were not animals.
CX 7 months ago
wtf is this I don't even...
Yale12 7 months ago
Paul, are you a vegan?
theantiyale 7 months ago
To Christians they were worse than animals.
theantiyale 7 months ago
No I'm not a vegan. But lobbying forced MacDonalds to stop buying chickens which had been raised in inhumane conditions. The brilliant autistic designer of humane beef slaughter procedures, Temple Grandin, has humiliated the beef industry into acknowledging its beastly behavior and addressing it; I see no reason why a nationwide student-led rebellion against inhumane academic research on animals could not MODIFY the long-term suffering endured by the animals to short-term suffering.
I've been raising hell for forty years without the benefit of social networking. I'm sure you can trump me.
For Godssakes---you're the Twitter generation. Get out there and TWEET.
River_Tam 7 months ago
Regardless of whether they thought they were worse than animals, they weren't actually less human than animals.
Objective truths, people.
We're okay with "humanely" killing animals for food, not so much with Muslims.
RexMottram08 7 months ago
Where is the vervet monkey support group meeting?
River_Tam 7 months ago
At the Yale Women's Center?
RexMottram08 7 months ago
Finish that sentence Paul!
...and women are lower than animals to Muslims.
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