Animal Rights Extremism PP8

What exactly do the animal rights extremist think they are accomplishing by violence? Is their violence successful in stopping the research being done with the use of animals? I would say not! The research is still going on and although they may be successful in maybe causing someone to stop working at the specific research firm they are employed by, this group is not accomplishing anything else but that. Research with the use of animals is still ongoing and I am totally opposed to the use of violence to accomplish something of this nature. This is not Auschwitz or the slavery days of the past when we had to resort to violence just to preserve the rights of the human being. I agree that animals should be treated with dignity and respect if they are to be used for research, any other treatment is inhumane. However, just like you can't change the beliefs of the extremists doing the bombing, you can't change the minds of the scientists conducting the research for what they believe to be for the 'greater good of mankind'. PETA and PCRM are mis-using funds when they take money raised to support their cause and use it to legally defend those that use violence to get their point across. This is just another form of terrorism and is completely irresponsible on PETA and PCRM's part. This type of behavior can be likened to defending terrorist acts against the US, so how is the violence of the animal extremists any different? Violence is violence no matter which way you slice it and non-profits or even for-profit organizations should be in support of any violence for peaceful outcome. What other options would these individuals have scientific researchers use to get the job done? How would they feel if we had human trials? Would that make them feel better since now we are not using animals for the research, but actual humans? Without the use of animals we would not have been able to do successfully do a heart transplant, which was successfully done on an animal before it was successfully done on a human. If we take on the distorted belief of Jerry Vlasak in which he believes that, "force is a poor second choice, but if that's the only thing that will work...there's certainly moral justification for that", then we as a society will not be able to move forward with scientific breakthroughs because we will all be in fear that some extreme organization will come after us because we are using plants or dirt for science and that's just ridiculous. (L.A. Times, Tim Rutten and scienceblog.com, Janet Stemwedel, 2009)