RE: [Leica] California bashing - was Fires

["Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>]

And putting moisturizer on a bunny's back rarely causes the kinds of
atrocities that PETA claims. We get PETA fanatics serving as "advocates" for
students who don't want to do the work in Anatomy and Physiology lab. We
tell them that the slides in A&P are human tissue, not animal tissue. Their
response is "How do we know that? It might be mislabeled." We offered to
allow them to study pen and ink drawings of the tissues, but that wasn't
good enough because the scientific illustrator might have used animal
tissues to make the drawings. You eventually have to say "maybe he shouldn't
be a pre-med student", and then they go ballistic, screaming
"discrimination!!!!"

One of those conversations where it is hard to look at them without cracking
a smile.

Jeffery

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:41 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] California bashing - was Fires


B. D. Colen offered hard nose truth!
> My suggestion is that anyone who take a public position against the 
> use of animals in medical - not cosmetic, etc., but medical - 
> research, or who donates to PETA, should be barred from ever receiving 
> any medication or medical treatment whose development involved the use 
> of non-human animals. No antibiotics - no polio vaccine for the kids - 
> no advance surgical help - no chemo- nada. Let them put their lives 
> and those of their children and grandchildren where their love of 
> animals resides. [NO smiley. Not even a glimmer.]<<<

Hi B.D.,
My comment has nothing to do with California and everything to do as you
expressed!

If it weren't for the use of critters so man kind could learn medical
techniques and medicinal drugs used for the benefit of the human race, the
planet would be short many million people or more.

And it might be one of us, our children, etc. who no longer existed!! Bad
scene if you love yer kids and grandchildren.

And as pointed out, this has absolutely nothing to do with the "learning
cosmetic" stuff to just enlighten the looks of some over age ex-beauty queen
to look more like a tart than a clean healthy mature woman!

Those who want a false look of youth to crack the glass in Leica lenses when
they have their picture taken, so be it! But if they really want that pseudo
look of their bygone days, then let them offer themselves for
experimentation! Seems reasonable to me.

And for sure no smileys here either.
ted






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