Animal Rights Activists Invade UCSC Researcher’s Home

Lab coats aren’t typically synonymous with danger, but that may be beginning to change in Santa Cruz. A biomedical researcher and faculty member from UCSC was recently the victim of home invasion by animal rights activists who objected to her use of animal testing in cancer research. While the faculty member was not herself injured, her husband was struck with an “unknown object” and the event reportedly left her young children “terrified.” The masked bandits, believed to be students, are currently still at large.

The audacity of this activist zeal is partly admirable, but in this case the execution of doctrine must be questioned. Can violating the sanctity of a stranger’s home and inflicting torment upon its inhabitants be justified by the amalgamation of publicity and national notoriety? Regardless of how you might answer it is interesting to note that despite all this commotion the researcher will continue to research, and the activists will continue to “actively” dissent.

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