Monkeys, Rats and Me: Part I

Part 1 of 2.

SEE PART 2 HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0toyU4o3GcE

In 2005, the building of the Oxford animal lab (in England - Oxford uni) brought about a battle between the animal rights activits who wanted to shut the place down vs the scientists who do medical research with animals other than humans.

Scientists in the area fear to speak about their research because of violent acts from a minority of animal rights activists. Mel Broughton, leader of Speak dedicates all his time to animal rights and vows to shut that lab down. But Laurie Pycroft, the founder of a movement called Pro-Test stands up to Speak, campaigning for the medical experimentation. He was sick of the anti vivisectionists dominating the debate in the public forum.

The director of this documentary aims to hear out both sides of the debate, in order to decide if the experiments are effective and ethical.

Note: This is not completely neutral, and unfortunately makes animal rights activists look a little bad, by showing some of the bad ones. I think the docco is great though, because I agree, but I don't expect everyone else to. It shows us what goes in inside the lab, quiet fair and square. It doesn't make it look good, or bad. I'm glad to have some more videos showing that the propaganda PETA and the ALF put out is false and misleading. But experimentation isn't exactly a family fun park either.

This isn't my video (obviously, but I thought I'd point it out) and it was aired on the BBC last year, I believe. It's now considered public domain, meaning there is no copyright, and I am free to distribute it on youtube like I'm doing. Don't believe me? Visit: http://www.archive.org/details/MonkeysRatsandMe for the source, and creative commons license. No rights reserved ftw.

Feel free to discuss, remembering this isn't my video, though I share many of the views presented in the video. I also use animals for experiments as a student, and it's quiet possible I will use them in the future as a neuroscientist. If I pass uni and don't get attacked by animal rights extremists!

http://www.pro-test.org.uk/

http://www.peoplespetition.org.uk/

Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes 7th edition 2004:
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/_files/ea16.pdf

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[ElledieWildAndFree]

Some people are ignorant and don't appreciate that animals have feelings

[katosteen]

ya'll talk alot of shit on here,quit your bitching, get off your asses and go to your nearest shelter and do something useful, change something you can change, donate to your vets& shelters for spaying and nuetering of cats and dogs, medical research has been around for along time, it's not going anywhere no matter how much you bitch, but at least you could start limiting the number of cats and dogs they use, by decreasing the number born every year

[deanmullen10]

@Casshyr Although I'm a vegan and I'm pro animal rights I agree with most of what you said, I think its unethical to blow things up in the name of animal rights not cause of the damage it causes but mainly it gives animal rights support a bad image and puts people in jail who could be spending that time expressing opinions

But I don't believe in every single case the law matches morality the law is a fundamentalist system and I don't think fundamentalism works nevertheless I agree with the rest

[deanmullen10]

I'm a vegan and pro animal rights but it is a tough question, I'm not a fundamentalist, I'm willing to admit animal exploitation is justifiable in some cases but in this case I really don't know, on the one hand people are dyeing on the other monkeys are suffering, I think the use of human willing people would actually be more justifiable nevertheless I don't know how society would respond to that, they'd probably see it as blusterous nevertheless doing it on unwilling monkeys seems worse.

[jozsefkacsa]

If 1 of those activist's child needed a brain surgery wonder if they would still protest.Anyway if u wanna fight it u have to go by the court of law because it is not against the law!!! And it is OK to cause the construction workers to haqve an accident and die.That Idiot should try to intimidate me.I'd fucking stamp his head in the sidewalk

[Casshyr]

what pisses me off about animal activists is they think they are justified in breaking the law to get attention. The laws are in place for a reason! If everybody breaks laws to get their point across, the whole society will fall. I'm not saying you have to agree on animal testing, but at least protest peacefully and civilly!

[RichieJohnSauls]

26:14 I am sure the rat is delighted to be named before being violated.

[katosteen]

all i see on here is a bunch of fucking terrorist, a bomb that killed a 3 yr old, dug up a mother-in-law, what a bunch of radical fucking maggots, if i was a vivisector, every time they got fucking stupid, i'd execute one of their furry littles freinds,i'd go blow to blow with the fucks, ya know why, i can be a sick fuck when provoked too and besides that, i hate rats, mice and nasty little fucking monkeys!!!

[sexypants691]

yes he is still against it he wishes the animals didnt have to go through what they did jst for him.