Dear Editor: Those who support animal rights should not automatically be labeled troublemakers or malcontents, a point made by Amy Kerwin in her letter to the editor. They may, in fact, be correct.
Using animals in medical research, for example, deserves a great deal more consideration than it is apparently receiving at facilities such as the UW-Madison primate lab, where thousands of monkeys are kept in barren solitary confinement for their entire lifetimes. Their reactions to medicines or procedures, we?re told, eventually help save human lives.