At the end of April, activists with the Animal Liberation Front broke into the Cornell University Duck Laboratory and stole 250 ducks that were being used for medical research. The activists painted several barns the animals were housed in with slogans such as “No more animal testing.”
Ironically, the ducks were being used in tests to find treatments for viruses that afflict ducks. I guess ducks, just like humans, have no right not to get viruses either as far as the animal rights activists are concerned.
Source:
250 ducklings taken from laboratory. Associated Press, April 30, 2001.