True animal right lunatics have a very casual relationship with facts, data, and common sense. Consider this story from this morning's edition of Fierce Pharma:A rabid animal-right group has claimed responsibility for torching Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella's hunting lodge in the Tryol. Militant Forces Against Huntingdon Life Science, or MFAH, posted its claim online at directaction.info. It threatened more attacks against Novartis if the drugmaker doesn't sever ties with Huntingdon, which does animal research.
The house fire was just one in a series of attacks on Vasella and other Novartis employees. It followed close behind the desecration of Vasella's parents' grave; an urn containing his mother's ashes was actually stolen. And now Swiss police say a second Vasella family grave has been desecrated: Grafitti saying "Drop HLS Now" was sprayed on a gravestone, and two wooden crosses were stuck in the ground. Swiss media reports that the crosses were labeled with the names of Vasella and his wife.
Ironically, Novartis doesn't do business with Huntingdon anymore, a company spokeswoman said. And it has already cut back on animal testing as computer modeling has taken the place of some early-stage animal research.
Did you get that? Novartis does not even do business with Huntingdon Life Science, and hasn't for years.
Did the animal rights loons bother to check that out before desecrating two graves?
Nope.
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