Letters

Elisabeth Carpenter's article "Police Are Slow to Probe Attacks on Animal Labs" (December 14, 1987, p. 1), describes and il ustrates in vivid detail raids on laboratories by opponents of animal experimentation. We oppose destruction of property and have consistently sought to prevent mistreatment of animals through education and law enforcement.

It is unfortunate that the article makes only a passing reference to the conditions that have led to these raids. It acknowledges a study showing that 23 percent of 186 major U.S. research institutions "had problems with veterinary care, caging, sanitation or ventilation." To get an idea of how serious such "problems" can be would require the same degree of specificity and photographic illustration that the article gave to the Animal Liberation Front raids.

A viewing of the videotape taken by University of Pennsylvania scientists, and stolen in an early ALF ...