>just received a mailing from an animal rights group and in it there was a >copy of a Marshall Farms ad placed in a magazine called "Lab Animal" The >ad consisted of MF asking labs to consider ferrets as "an affordable >alternative". THIS IS DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!! Normally lurking in the background about MF, this is one thing that, in my opinion, is untolerable! (Is this a word?). MF is not in the least "animal oriented", other then the fact that it puts $'s in their pockets. Jennifer, upset MF supporters? Well, if so, then it's TOO SAD. Because if MF does condone this practice, then they are pitiful! I have belonged and supported animal groups that FIGHT against animals being used in experiments. I eventually put it on the backburner because it was too upsetting for me....Whatever the arguements are supporting animals being used in experiments I have heard, been there, done that. It still does not change my opinion. I cannot see taking ANY LIVING THING and subjecting it to constant pain, agony or a life in lab. We are blessed with God's gift to love these critters. They have done nothing to deserve this life of h&**! Karen [Posted in FML issue 2000]