Experiments with animals
Sir, — “Tikumu’s’* letter on : your young reader’s page is invariably /delightful. However, in a. receht.,issue, (March 25) >relating-.tO- rabbits, number, of .people, including myself, Were dismayedsby the latten portion, •3^gstetc^enf: s 4bßji;.>‘iiXi,:this age, their greatest service to the humaii race is in:scientific research’' instils Spalling ideas into Children’s minds. Living animals 7/for experiments are becoming an obsolete factbf bf a hew era of -research. Perhaps “Tikumu® has not seen photographs of the long-rows of rabbits, constrained so that they cannot move, in existing laboratories, subjected to “the search for remedies, for human suffering,’’ also for -the cruel testing of cosmetics. If “Tikumu”: investigated these activities further, - then no doubt a later letter would contain a different pattern of thinking. —Yours, etc;, NATALIE TAYLOR. April-10, 1980/
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