Currie-McGhee relates that in 2001, the AFL, an extremist animal rights group, claimed responsibility for the fire that severely damaged the laboratory of the Coulston Foundation’s White Sands Research Center in New Mexico, causing a million dollars’ worth of damage to the building and equipment (38).They asserted that they were benefiting animals when they broke into research facilities, released animals from their cages, and let them outside. They, like most animal rights activists, believe that experiments using animals are morally wrong. However, the purpose of using animals in science meets the fundamental principle of ethic – cure disease and prevent death, researchers should find it necessary to defend their use of
Currie-McGhee relates that in 2001, the AFL, an extremist animal rights group, claimed responsibility for the fire that severely damaged the laboratory of the Coulston Foundation’s White Sands Research Center in New Mexico, causing a million dollars’ worth of damage to the building and equipment (38).They asserted that they were benefiting animals when they broke into research facilities, released animals from their cages, and let them outside. They, like most animal rights activists, believe that experiments using animals are morally wrong. However, the purpose of using animals in science meets the fundamental principle of ethic – cure disease and prevent death, researchers should find it necessary to defend their use of