" A Nov. 14, 2004, break-in at animal research laboratories in the U of I's Spence Laboratories and Seashore Hall cost about $425,000 and temporarily stalled some research. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attack, in which masked intruders trashed computers and other equipment and stole hundreds of laboratory animals.
I'm so sorry (actually, I'm not), but I have no patience for the sob story. Poor, poor long-suffering animal researchers. They only want to help people....as they also get salary increases, patents, tenure and all the other perks.
How convenient that not only will this underground prison allow for "security," but it will also hide research "practices" completely from the public eye.
Vandals are not the greatest threat to animal researchers, it's transparency. And they know it."
- blog
first of ****ing all.
if you are against animal research, you better ****ing refuse any kind of medication you are given. the estimate of running a mice facility, starting a new one, making a founder mice, breeding, making transgeninc, breeding, feeding, hiring new people, redoing research, stalling careers, remaking facility, adding security probably cost a total of 10-20 million dollars.
it takes 3 years to make a trangenic mice. and then 2 more years to get any kid of data off of it. freeing sterile/infection/germ free mice into middle of iowa doesn't do **** but get them killed in a matter of hours.
its great to have people protecting animal rights, but just going overboard will only harm more mice. there are ****load of rules and protocols involved in animal research to protect them as much as possible.