As a veterinarian that trained at the University of Wisconsin, I found the Frankie Trull’s op-ed column supporting animal research misleading and disingenuous.
For centuries people have opposed the use of animals in scientific research based on ethics. Their argument was that any animal close enough to us to be of value in research was close enough to be valued for itself; an end in and of itself, not a means to an end, to paraphrase Kant.