Yes, I do like this brave woman who went undercover to report on the abuse of animals. However, why do you say that her activities should be considered illegal and unethical? She applied for jobs working with animals using her real name and her real qualifications. The obscenity here is that well known companies like Procter and Gamble as a matter of course are engaged in the horrific abuse and neglect of animals. Our family stopped using Procter and Gamble products when I found out that they tested on animals. PETA has lists of good companies and bad companies re whether they use laboratory animals, in fact. They can be downloaded from PETA.com, of course.
Now tell me why these abuses that she uncovered should not be considered illegal and unethical?
This one:
Leitten called her last assignment for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals her most wrenching: nine months in a Virginia lab owned by Princeton, N.J.-based biomedical firm Covance Co. There, she says, monkeys were denied medical care and abused by technicians. The company denies the claims, says it treats the animals properly and has accused Leitten of illegally working under cover.
Two weeks ago, PETA presented Leitten's assertions about Covance in video footage and a massive report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and Virginia prosecutors, calling for regulators to shutter the company's Vienna, Va., lab.
And this as well:
For what she says was her final assignment, Leitten was hired as a primate technician for Covance.
Leitten's camera work, and the report issued by PETA, depict frightened monkeys being yanked from their cages and handled roughly by aggressive, often cursing technicians.
She says she watched animals suffer with festering wounds, and that tubes were forced into their sinuses for research medicine to be administered, causing them to scream, bleed and vomit. Monkeys were housed alone in cages that were hosed down with the animals still inside, dripping and shivering, she said. |
