Pointless sacrifice of animals at the ‘cathedral of science’

• SO London’s lab-land is to get another vivisection laboratory. The “cathedral of science” we are told (December 10) will cost £520million.
If it’s a private finance initiative trick, I’ll guess it will eventually cost £800million – and most of that will be taxpayers’ money. And what will be the reason for the existence of this exciting project? Bogus medical research, that is, thousands of animals being poisoned and cut up by an army of people pretending they are doing vital life-saving, cures for cancer etc.
The reality? It’s a job-creation game. The animals will be sacrificed; only rodents will be used. Tell that to the marines.
Putting a drug into an animal in the pretence that it will tell us how that drug will act in the human body is nonsense. Anyone who believes such a thing is either a criminal or deranged. Also veterinary research does not truly tell us how animal diseases develop in the wild.
So you want to be healthy? Stop eating meat. Avoid aspartame. Give up cows’ milk and never accept any more vaccines.
Vaccines do NOT protect against any disease.
But try to be kind to doctors. They have been conditioned only to prescribe synthetic drugs.
TERRENCE MacMANUS
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