Congratulations to the producers of the documentary Monkeys, Rats and Me: Animal Testing, broadcast on BBC Two just over a year ago. It has just won the best Science Documentary category of the annual Grierson Awards.
The documentary was widely praised in previews and reviews at the time. Many reviewers believed it to be ‘balanced’ but it was clearly too balanced for the antivivisectionists like Europeans for Medical Progress, who subsequently complained to the BBC.
I was most amused to read a leading animal rights activist’s comment on my blog entry. Kim Stallwood may well regard a previous documentary and book on the Animal Liberation Front as biased and exaggerated, but that rather confirms my original comment above, that antivivisectionists will only be happy when such stuff is biased in their direction.
I’m not sure I follow Kim Stallwood’s argument (he says the above uses emotion), but what’s wrong with emotion anyway? Antivivisectionists use (misplace) it all the time with their allusions to fluffy animals. And we’d be pretty poor specimens of humanity without emotion. Maybe grumpy is the only emotion this vegan recognises. In fact I’m surprised he didn’t sue over the picture painted of him as a humourless and power-hungry radical in Animal Warfare.
Quote: In fact I’m surprised he didn’t sue over the picture painted of him as a humourless and power-hungry radical in Animal Warfare.
I should think that there’s a very good reason why he didn’t sue, he probably hates losing as much as anybody else!
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