Animal Rights Guru Admits He Is WRONG!!

The founding philosopher of the Animal Rights movement, Peter Singer, has backed the use of living creatures in medical experiments.

Peter Singer, who wrote the book “Animal Liberation”, considered the bible of AR activists, has surprised everyone since he has always insisted that animals should have equal rights with humans. He has now backed research in which experiments on monkeys are carried out to develop surgical techniques for Parkinson's Disease.

'It is clear at least some animal research does have benefits,' Singer admits on Monkeys, Rats and Me: Animal Testing, which will be screened on BBC2 Monday 27th November 2006. 'I would certainly not say that no animal research could be justified and the case you have given sounds like one that is justified.'

Singer’s statement has delighted scientists, including Tipu Aziz, the Oxford surgeon who developed the techniques. 'It is a very encouraging sign,' he said.

The BBC2 documentary focuses on the battle to block the building of the £20m Oxford University animal laboratory by animal rights activists. Construction was stopped in 2004 and resumed this year only after coercion of builders and suppliers by AR activists was blocked by new legislation and renewed energy from local and national police forces.

Leader of the campaign, Mel Broughton, a 44-year-old landscape gardener from Northampton was jailed for four years in 1997 for smuggling incendiary bombs into an animal-testing facility.
He is reported as saying, “If you are going to take the money to build a place where animal torture goes on, where people are allowed to do that to sentient, thinking, feeling creatures and expect me to politely ask them to stop then you can think again, because I am going to intimidate you.”

Professor Aziz refuses to be intimidated. Despite being on the 'assassination list' of an extremist website, he has been extremely vocal in his criticism of the animal-liberation movement, calling them 'misinformed and sometimes illiterate anti-vivisectionists who adopt terrorist tactics' and who 'undermine the process of democracy through intimidation'.
Britain has probably the most violent and absurd animal-rights movement in the world, he has said. 'The problem with British society is it has a humanoid perception of animals that's almost cartoon-like.'