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This is so fucking ridiculous. Animal testing is done, in every authorized research organization, under strict scrutiny and regulation. If a proposed experiment goes before the testing board and the researcher can’t guarantee the animal’s comfort and minimize its exposure to pain, the research project is not authorized. Proposals that are designed to test the pain response of animals are extremely rare and done under even stricter scrutiny. I work in biomedical research; I’ve seen animal testing firsthand. They take better care of the animals than the underpaid staff that neglect the elderly in our hospitals, I can tell you that.

And before people get all pissed off because they’re anthropomorphizing the expression on a puppy’s face, remember that most of the reason any of us, or any of the animals we can treat under veterinary care, have the benefit of modern medicine, is through animal testing. Does abuse exist in research? Absolutely. Does that mean it’s cause to abandon animal research? Absolutely not. There exist no methods that can serve as substitutes for critical drug testing, for example. We should attack the abusive practices when they exist instead of going after something that’s brought hope and health to billions of people.

If you want to go after an entire field, where is the outrage with factory farms and the entire meat industry? There’s an industry that reaps and sows pure cruelty and environmental damage- let’s start with the big hitters first, maybe? And then we can go after animal testing once we’ve all decided that modern medicine is shit and we’d prefer to let ourselves and our loved ones (human or not) die of the fucking flu.

Fuck.

sheldrakillher:

For medical experimentation animals can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged— no procedures or experiments, regardless of how trivial or painful they may be, are prohibited by law. When valid non-animal research methods are available, no law requires experimenters to use such methods instead of animals.

http://animalcrueltyfacts.net/fact/52

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2dope4society:

Making a difference takes time & patience. Don’t give up.

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slushy:

RIP NANCY WAKE (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011)

Ms Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France.

Work began earlier this month on a feature film about Nancy Wake’s life. Ms Wake, one of the models for Sebastian Faulks’ fictional heroine, Charlotte Gray, had mixed feelings about previous cinematic efforts to portray her wartime exploits, including a TV mini-series made in 1987.

“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”

Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.

Even before she escaped to Britain, through Spain, in 1943 to train as a guerrilla leader, Nancy had been top of the Gestapo’s French “wanted” list. With her husband, she ran a resistance network which helped to smuggle Jews and allied airmen out of the country.

Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”

<3 what a bad ass <3

>She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.

>She was too busy killing Nazis

>too busy killing Nazis

fuck yes lady anzacs

This little old lady strangled a man to death with her bare hands.

And was too busy killing Nazis for romance.

This is the BAMFest BAMF who ever BAMFed, ladies and gentlemen.

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