From: jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins)
Subject: Re: CBS's "60 Minutes" damns PeTA
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:49:14 GMT

In article <C1H43p.1t9@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:

>From article <1993Jan25.214900.16982@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, by jhoskins@m
agnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins):

>> In article <C1FB0G.DK3@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>>>
>>>In 1989, prior to the cancellation of Carey's project,
>>>Representative Alphonse Jackson of Shreveport, Louisiana, submitted
>>>a bill to the LA House of Representatives, at the specific request
>>>of LSU, which would have allowed researchers to seize cats and dogs
>>>from shelters that remained unclaimed after 5 days.  The
>>>aforementioned "cat shooting" experiments, BTW, were conducted at
>>>the LSU Medical Center.
>>>
>>>Did "60 Minutes" mention the Jackson bill?
>>
>> As I recollect, no.
>>
>> Russell, could you explain the connection you are making here?
>
>Try to stay on top of the threads instead of asking me to explain
>fragments that you read at random.

Sorry Russell, I don't work here. :-)

>
>> Most shelters around the country accept any dog or cat brought in,
>> give owners three to five days to reclaim their animals, and then
>> unfortunately must separate animals with "adoption potential" from
>> the overall population.  About 70-80% of the animals brought in are
>> euthanized, higher in some areas.
>
>Alex Pace had written:
>=================================================================
>ap> 60 minutes really pegged these PeTA freaks for what they are and
>ap> exposed their technique of trying to use imagery of household
>ap> pets to stir the public into thinking that the doctor is somehow
>ap> hurting poor little fluffy.  The fact is that these animals are
>ap> usually raised in the lab with the sole purpose of being
>ap> experimented on.
>=================================================================
>
>The truth is that LSU was attempting to gain the passage of
>legislation that would have allowed researchers like Carey to
>seize animals from local shelters and pounds, including
>privatedly funded ones.  Would it be reasonable for a privately
>funded shelter, perhaps a shelter with a no-kill policy, to be
>forced by law to surrender lost or abandoned pets to men like
>Carey?
>
>--
>Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
>russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ


I agree completely that legislation forcing private shelters
to give animals to researchers would be wrong.  Was this
legislation termed the "cat and dog seizing bill" or did
it have a more benign name?

How do you react to Alex's characterization of the AR movement's
use of household pet imagery.  Does animals rights literature
mention the regretable fact that 75% of the animals are euthanized
at many shelters?

Do you think that if your lost dog was taken to the shelter and after
five days deemed unadoptable and thus scheduled for death, because in
the past he had a bond with you by, law there should never be the
possibility that your dog could experience a medical researcher shooting
projectiles into his brain?




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