Don’t ever accuse Animal Alliance of Canada’s Troy Seidle of overlooking the obvious. Seidle charged earlier this month that a virology lab in Canada was abusing animals with its research efforts.
According to the Winnipeg Sun, the lab in Winnipeg is one of only a dozen around the world capable of working on the most dangerous of viruses including Ebola and SARS. Seidle was not impressed, telling the Winnipeg Sun,
Newborn mice are being infected by a virus, and the researchers know up front that they’re going to die from it.
Somebody move Seidle to the head of the class! Presumably, Seidle would prefer that when studying Ebola or SARS that researchers infect the mice with a nonlethal agent such as the cold virus instead (it probably won’t come as a surprise that this genius also has worked as a research associate with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).
Source:
‘Peg lab abusing animals, group charges. The Winnipeg Sun, May 15, 2003.