On the other hand, some animal rights activists do understand the
importance of animal experiments but just don't care. Consider
another celebrity activist, Linda Blair. Asked about actor
Christopher Reeve, paralyzed after a 1995 horse riding accident,
Blair blamed Reeve for the accident and said she hoped a cure could
be found for his paralysis "but not at the expense of innocent
animals."

Reeve's wife, Dana, replied to Blair saying, "It's too hard to watch
6-year-old children with spinal cord injuries and say, 'No, don't do
a medical experiment on a rat'" Animal rights activists, however,
are committed to doing just that.

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk once summed up this callous view by
telling a reporter that even if animal experimentation could find a
cure for AIDS, "we'd be against it." Without animal research, life
saving treatments and vaccines for everything from diabetes to polio
would not exist.

Sad shame :(