Vivisection at Berkeley: Protest all life sciences!
Recently, a group of student-organized protesters picketed on-campus and outside the Helen Wills 10th anniversary symposium. The Helen Wills Institute is a neuroscience institute with affiliated labs on the Berkeley campus. Most of the animal protesters wore bandanas over their faces and carried signs like "vivisection kills" and wrote on the sidewalks phrases like "animals die while demons rejoice." I have come to the conclusion that protesting like this is an unhelpful contribution to on-campus activism as well as a distraction from a fruitful animal-research debate.
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