Vague hopes of going north . . . This was my reality in 1924. Lab animals are due the same right to freedom from oppression that people enjoy. The suffering of people is more expensive, more precious than the suffering of animals. The animal rights movement seeks to apply the same moral criteria to the treatment of animals that has been demanded for blacks, women, and other minorities since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Reason elevates humans.
Blacks, women, and other minorities can think and act rationally. Still, needless experimentation continues under conditions which often lead to slow, painful deaths. If one hundred animals die to save one person, the price is justified. He dug under the rib cage to the diaphragm and carefully cut around it until it was free. It is about love.