Lab rat rights

I cite articles about animal rights because I think it is an important issue, regardless of your position on the subject, because merely thinking about it forces you to also think about human rights. The numbers here are surprising.

Last year, 3.6 million animals were used in medical research in the UK, whereas more than 200 million animals were raised for the meat trade, many of which were in factory farms. Thus, animals in research are only a tiny fraction of animals raised for human use: for every research animal, there are 50 animals in the meat industry. Moreover, the case against factory farming is much stronger than the case against animals in research... Compared to the research industry, the meat industry thus involves more than 50 times as many animals, whose presence contributes much less to human welfare, and who arguably suffer more as well. More...