Non-Fiction Blog Post

I recently read an article about animal-rights activists releasing animals that were used for scientific testing. The main idea of the article was the releasing of the animals, and people's reaction to the releasing. Some details are how the activist have planned this attack on Facebook, and posted pictures of themselves. The animal-right activists made a siege on the lab, where they camped out there and stated they would not leave without animals. Meanwhile, several people protested outside. In the end, they left with 100 animals out of 800, which are mostly genetically modified mice and rabbits. Some of the mice removed were "delicate mutants", and would die easily outside of a laboratory. The reaction of many people was bad too. The activists had switched the animals in the cages, so the experiments were ruined. One person said they saw,"some research students crying in the disrupted facility." The people who had been working there had lost almost three years of their work learning about psychiatric diseases. These connect to the main idea because it shows how the activists worked, and it showed the devastating affect it had on the people working there.
I think the author wants us to feel bad for the people working in the lab. All their work was destroyed, and this was their total job. Many important things could have been found out because of the research done there, and now it is all destroyed. One main example is in the very title of the article itself. It says,"Animal-Rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory". The words wreak and havoc show that the author wants us to be feel bad. She also included the example of the people crying over their wrecked work, and not so much information on the activist's reasons for what they did. These all combine to show how the author, Alison Abbot, wanted us to feel bad for the people working in the laboratory's.
My thinking has been changed because I have always thought most animals in testing were treated cruelly. I was not completely against the idea of animal testing, since I did not know much about it. Now I realize that animal testing like this may not be completely ethical, but it is necessary and helpful for finding out diseases. Research like this could find us cures to otherwise incurable diseases, and could also let us find more about ourselves. For all the people working in the facility when the activists destroyed it, I feel really bad. Some of these experiments were very important, not only to them but to the world. The activists were too extreme, and by taking the animals out of their environment they are endangering their lives. Even thought I don't 100% agree with all the motives of animal testing, I do believe that the activist were wrong in what they did.
This is the link to the article: Animal-Rights Activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory