Our little mouse friends are helping us learn to cure cancer!

[Chuckiechan]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...714.htm?squeak

They do so much and get thanked so little....

[GroundZero3]

funny you should bring this up Chuckie as i saw this

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/adver...tail.cfm/ad/14

"Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." — Ingrid Newkirk, President and Co-Founder of PETA

[porsch1909]

Herceptin which is a hugely successfull treatment for breast cancer in the UK was creted from mouse anti-bodies

But in the UK the dam animal rights protester just sent letters out to minor shareholders in GlaxoSmithKline(GSK) saying they will post the shareholder's details on the internet if they don't sell their shares!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4756381.stm

GSK got an injunction though

[Detritus]

funny you should bring this up Chuckie as i saw this

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/adver...tail.cfm/ad/14

Don't you love it, the lives of a few mice outweigh human lives....

[Vagabond]

What I love is that all these PETA people use medicines that were derived from animal research and I am sure if any of them get sick they will run to the nearest doctor and take the treatment, which I am sure was based on some sort of animal research...

[I2n0ld]

What I love is that all these PETA people use medicines that were derived from animal research and I am sure if any of them get sick they will run to the nearest doctor and take the treatment, which I am sure was based on some sort of animal research...

i would love to have their names posted on the internet as well

[The Real Bingo]

Cool stuff.

Those PETA people are royal a PITA.

[originel]

IIRC one of the high-ups in PETA is a diabetic, and insulin was develoepd by doing tests on dogs...or something to that effect.

[Vagabond]

Txs originel I thought I heard that but was not sure I will do a quick google. I also hear/read that their response was well the work was already done so its ok or something along those lines. I will try and confirm this...

edit to add quote:

"PETA’s Mary Beth Sweetland should also answer for her own personal hypocrisy. Like more than ten million Americans, she’s diabetic. Sweetland injects herself daily with insulin that was tested on animals; she has conceded that her medicine “still contains some animal products -- and I have no qualms about it…. I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.”
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from http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_.../headline/1730