Forum Archive Index - September 2000

[bachj <bachj@paradise.net.nz>]

To each his own brother, we can only live with ourselves , good investing, Seb.

Philip Robinson wrote:

> 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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