Kill the Vivisectors?

When testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works last week, animal rights activist Jerry Vlasek did not back down from his despicably coy 2003 observation that assassinating "vivisectors" would spare animals from medical research:

"I don't think you'd have to kill—assassinate—too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human animals."

Vlasek is a trauma surgeon in Los Angeles. Surely he doesn't eschew the techniques for suturing damaged blood vessels that were developed by Alexis Carrel through experimentation on live dogs?

And let's not forget the pain, suffering and death from which millions of humans have been spared by medicines and procedures developed by using animals in medical research.

Thanks for the heads up to C.S. Prakash at the Tuskegee Institute and David Martosko at the Center for Consumer Freedom.