And Where Do Your Drugs Come From?

Tom Regan, a philosophy professor emeritus at North Carolina State University and author of "Empty Cages," sees the death and suffering of defective animals as a grave ethical misstep. "The animals used for these purposes are in fundamental ways like us -- their behavior tells us they're like us, evolutionary theory tells us they're like us," he says. "What we have with transgenic research is another incentive for reducing animals to something whose purpose for being in the world is to serve human interests. And that's fundamentally flawed."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/11/transgenic_goats/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature

Did you know that Big Pharma is using ANIMALS, in particular, goats, to produce a drug called antithrombin. A humman gene is spliced into New Zealand pygmy goats and this 'drug' is produced in their milk. Its a stroke and heart attack drug. 90% of these animals are euthanized due to the fact that they do not produce this dug and also from the large number of birth defects which have no known origin.