Forum Archive Index - September 2000

["G.P.Thompson" <gp.thompson@bitworks.co.nz>]

Well said Phil.
I don't give a toss whether they experiment with animals or not either. What
people seem to forget is that Its much better than the alternative of
experimenting on humans or worse dumping untested products on unsuspecting
consumers.
 What matters here as an investor is whether this company will create
shareholder wealth.
GPT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Robinson" <robph639@student.otago.ac.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: [sharechat] Animal Experimentation and your grandmother


>
> Dear chatters
>
> I do not intend with this post to invoke any dis-feeling at all. I simply
> wish to put forward a balanced view of the issue that has been raised.
> I would like to point out that 95%* of cosmetic is tested on animals. Does
> that stop you buying lipstick. I see medical experimentation which has
> passed Animal Ethics Committee Approval [which is legally required in this
> country] to be a necessary evil. I don't like it but I am sure that your
> grandmother appreciated the life saving advances that penicillin and
others
> medical discoveries gave to her kind, and I would be as bold to say that
> only the phyisically able and immunological superior would be around today
> if it would not be for animal experiemtation, which would put me most
> definitely in the non-existent catagory.
> I will be buying Genesis shares with the thought that I am sharing in the
> advances that modern Medicine are making and that I will hopefully be able
> to use to help those in need.
>
> I don't like animal experimentation as much as the next person but have
> examined the issues and come to a different conclusion than that of
others.
>
>
> Phil
>
> *My ignornant estimate
>
> Philip Robinson
> Wellington School of Medicine
> University of Otago
>
>
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