Originally posted by: gedman
Back when I was in college in the early 1990s, some of the radical animal rights folks blew up part of a college building. A professor there was studying ways to help minks survive in the wild. Of course, the research required her to keep caged minks that she used for her analysis and tests. The idiot animal rights folks blew up her lab and destroyed 10+ years of reseach on how to SAVE minks.
In addition to the bombing, the "terrorists" spray painted on the wall of the building "We're coming for the dolphins next". (The college, Michigan State University, had no dolphin research and is 700 miles from the nearest ocean.) Freakin' geniuses.
Well, as much as I dislike vigilantes and eco-terrorist, I hate mis-information even more.
While it may have been possible that the type of research you mention was going on, the primary target of that attack was a professor that was not only in the back pocket of the Mink Farmers Research Foundation, he also had been awarded federal grants to also use his mink farm for toxic experiments involving the forcefeeding of PCP?s, dioxins and other industrial pollutants to captive mink. This was no mink love-fest for sure.
Also, it was ?WE WILL BE BACK FOR THE OTTERS? not dolphins.
Again, please don't misconstrue this as support for these people, I will say that fur for the sake of fur is pretty stupid and wasteful.