Why should busy lab animal professionals become embroiled in the increasingly bitter debate about animal use?
The Executive Director of NJABR makes the case for communicating about animal research and provides strategies for countering the animal activists’ media war against animal research. This article appeared in Lab Animal, February 2000 The letter arrived in a plain white envelope that was hand-addressed and obviously written by a child. At first glance, it seemed similar to thousands of requests for information received by organizations that promote the benefits of biomedical research like the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research. This letter, however, was different. In two simple sentences, the writer conveyed the animal rights movement’s success in shaping the terms of the use of animals in research. “I am writing a report on animal abuse. Please send me materials about what you do.” We can deal with such a letter in several ways. We can attempt to put the request into context. We can puzzle over the writer’s motivation. We can dismiss the implied accusation that animal resea
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