isn't it nice when we fight amongst ourselves

[Guest guest]

If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for

strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between

environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to

establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides

by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from

environmentalists, who were concerned about humans being exposed to

tens of thousands of environmental pollutants, the U.S. EPA

established three chemical-testing programs, all of which use lab

animals. In response, animal-rights advocates, who claim the

programs lead to needless suffering and death for the animals, joined

the pesticide industry in a lawsuit to block one of the three

programs, and may sue the EPA over another as well. In addition,

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched a website,

www.meangreenies.com, attacking the Natural Resources Defense

Council, the World Wildlife Fund, and Environmental Defense for

backing the use of lab animals.

 

straight to the source: Knoxville News-Sentinel, Scripps Howard News

Service, Joan Lowy, 21 May 2002

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