Animal Rights Strategies

Abstract

Let’s say, just for the purpose of this chapter, that you hate us for what we do. Let’s also say that our neighbor loves us, because of the good work that we do in advancing the well-being of humankind’s health and even on behalf of the animals that benefit from animal research. Now, what can you do to get us to stop what we do and to change that neighbor’s point of view? First, allege, without evidence or first-hand knowledge, that

• animal researchers produce nothing of value because animals are too different from humans to produce useful models of humans;

• animal researchers torture animals because: (a) they derive pleasure from it, (b) they make lots of money at it, and (c) they have no love of animals and are intrinsically unkind and cruel—sort of like Nazis.