I forward the following from Brooks. He deserves this chance to
clarify his relationship with animal research. Your contributions to
our community are treasured, sir.
Be well,
Mike
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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 12:01:39 -0500
From: Brooks Bradley <brooks.brad...@worldnet.att.net>
Organization: HARBORNE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
To: mdev...@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: CS>Re: CS & blood stream
I tried to send this last evening and got a delivery rejection
from the list. I hope you get this....as it is of some moment that this
item receive some clarification.
Sincerely, Brooks.
Dear Mike,
I just happened to read your post and would like to enter a
comment relative to our past animal participation in research
evaluations. We NEVER utilized any animals in any "Life-threatening"
circumstance, nor in any form of research which entailed ANY pain or
untoward physical discomfort. All animals, principally dogs and cats
were under systemic sedation and/or local anaesthetic and only benign
substances were EVER injected. We did, however, experimentally treat
some candidates who were in the final stages of disease affliction or
near-morbidity----in an effort to save them.....and in an appreciable
number of cases were able to do so.
We discontinued even this limited effort four years ago.....
primarily because of fears of being tarred with the same brush used on
the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, academic institution, etc.
principals-----who did not seem to exercise the same
consideration........or goals, established by our staff. I believe
this to be regrettable because we were able to utilize protocols to
which we were barred from including human participants-------an action
in which we would have utilized humans instead of animals......had it
been legal to do so.
We NEVER had a single animal experience any form of trauma
or noticeable discomfort in any of the very few circumstances in which
they participated.
We are, to a person, animal lovers, animal rights activists
and participants in many overt activities to address the many grievous
offences visited on animals in general.....both wild and domestic. Our
foundation spends a majority of its funds in efforts allied with such
activities.
Please excuse me for using the Silver-List forum for this
post.
Sincerely, Brooks Bradley.
"M. G. Devour" wrote:
> Noel writes:
> > The dog that was almost killed== Was he a volunteer? Dominion over
> > animals does not mean that human kind can willfully do anything to an
> > animal. Dominion means humankind are caretakers of animals not forced
> > torture. Animals just like humans have dignity,and rights to live in
> > peace.
>
> Most everything I remember from Brooks involved human volunteers and
> pets that belonged to staff members. If that qualifies as
> "volunteering" then the answer is yes. It doesn't seem to be their
> custom to do research that results in the destruction of animals.
>
> That said, "Animal Rights" involves far too much of politics and
> religion to be an appropriate subject for the silver list. If anybody
> wants to debate the issue, take it to the silver-off-topic-list...
>
> http://www.silverlist.org/OffTopic.html
>
> Mike Devour
> silver-list owner
[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian]
[mdev...@eskimo.com ]
[Speaking only for myself... ]
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