... a grip on humanity. From the outside I presume it is easier to look at the process and criticise that the search for a cure involves so much unnecessary death. I use the word "unnecessary" as despite decades of intense effort to find cures for diseases such as cancer, more and more people's lives are taken over and end in fatality. Experts however call these efforts, focused largely on improving treatment, a "qualified failure". How can this be so when researchers tell the public that "animals are so similar to human beings that drugging, irradiating and dissecting them provides a valid model for a human disease victim"? Perhaps it is because, as the researchers also tell the public, " animals are so different from human beings that these things may be done without consent, kindness, painkillers or adequate medical care," as undercover investigations of laboratories repeatedly reveal. It may be ...

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