Appraising the Animal Activists

While I am, being human, vulnerable to disease myself, as are my human loved ones, and feel it most worthy to gain and promote knowledge that contributes to the improvement of general health, when I ask myself, “How much pain and suffering of a laboratory animal can I find acceptable so that it may benefit my health,” my answer is still none. Abuse by design is an intrinsically immoral act.

ELAINE LIVESEY, Los Angeles